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2024 Penalty Overtime Exclusion Period
August 27, 2024
The "Penalty Overtime Exclusion" period for calendar year 2024 will begin Pay Period 26-2024, Week 1 (November 30, 2024) and end Pay Period 01-2025, Week 2 (December 27, 2024).
'Stay In Your Lane, APWU'?
August 27, 2024
Western Regional Coordinator Omar Gonzalez explains the importance of union involvement beyond the workroom floor including economic, political, and social justice as outlined in our National Constitution & Bylaws.
Labor News Briefs
September 1, 2017
Workers march in Los Angeles during a 2015 Fight for $15 protest.
SEIU Local 99/Flickr Creative Commons
(This article first appeared in the Sept-Oct 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Minimum Wage Raised
Voters in several states...
Thinking Outside the Box: Bargaining for the Common Good
September 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the Sept-Oct 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
US Mail is NOT for Sale!
All over the country, public sector unions and their community allies are beginning to think outside the box when it comes to...
Payday Lenders Trapping Senior Citizens
September 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the Sept-Oct 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Although the payday lending industry slowed in California in 2016, it increased dramatically among senior citizens. For the first time, seniors took out...
Members in Action
September 1, 2017
From L-R: President Joe Cogan, Vice-President Bill Martin,
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Legislative & Political Director Daniel
Cortez and Director of Associate Offices Verna Mathews.
(This article first appeared in the Sept-Oct 2017 issue of the...
Assault on Jobs
September 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the Sept-Oct 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
By Eastern Regional Coordinator Mike Gallagher
Baltimore Francis “Stu” Filbey Area Local Clerk Director Gloria Drake at the local’s protest
against USPS...