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APWU Launches National Ad; Warns of Price Hikes, Post Office Closures in Anti-Privatization Campaign
July 21, 2025
This week the American Postal workers Union (APWU) launched a national advertising campaign on to alert the public about proposed plans to privatize the public Postal Service. The ad called “Memo” highlights a document sent by Wells Fargo Equity...
APWU Arbitration Award Secures Grievance Rights for Separated Non-Probationary Employees
July 17, 2025
The APWU has secured a major victory for the rights of non-probationary employees who are discharged without just cause from the Postal Service to file grievances on those discharges and have them heard in arbitration, Industrial Relations Director...
District Court Orders Clarification
March 24, 2016
The Postal Service sidestepped a fight in federal court on March 16 over enforcement of an Oct. 19, 2015, arbitration award on staffing at Bulk Mail Centers (BMCs). After the USPS filed a “consent motion,” Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ordered...
Consolidations in ‘Deferred Status’
March 24, 2016
Postal workers and postal customers got some good news recently: The Deputy Postmaster General notified a member of Congress that “consolidation activities remain in a deferred status.” A one-year moratorium on more than 70 plant consolidations and...
‘Grand Alliance’ Holds Field Hearing in Baltimore
March 24, 2016
The Postal Service is indeed worth saving. That was the consensus of participants in the first field hearing sponsored by A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service (AGA), held at Coppin State University in Baltimore on March 23.
Canchola Appointed to Clerk NBA Vacancy
March 23, 2016
Sonia Canchola has been appointed to fill the vacant San Francisco Region Clerk Craft National Business Agent position, effective March 21. She fills the vacancy that was created by the death of Gilbert Ybarra, who passed away in October 2014 after...
Outpouring of Support for Sanders in Seattle
March 22, 2016
Ahead of this week's caucus, APWU members were among the participants in a massive rally in Seattle, WA, in support of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.