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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...

WATCH: APWU President Dimondstein on Ratification of 2024-2027 National Agreement

July 12, 2025
APWU President Mark Dimondstein Addresses the membership on the Ratification of the 2024-2027 National Agreement   

Arbitrator Sustains MS-47 Challenge

In another recent national-level award, Arbitrator Shyam Das sustained the union's challenge to management's revisions to the custodial staffing handbook (MS-47) and ordered the Postal Service to rescind the 2001 MS-47 Handbook, reinstate the...

Nurses Interest-Arbitration Scheduled

Arguments over disputed contract issues for postal nurses will be heard by an interest arbitrator beginning March 23. The National Postal Professional Nurses-APWU contract expired Aug. 20, 2007, and the union and the Postal Service agreed to submit...

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APWU Nurses Advised That Contract – Though Expired – Still Offers Protection

As the bargaining team for APWU-represented nurses prepares for interest arbitration hearings beginning in late March, Support Services Division Director Bill Manley assured the unit’s members that the terms of their expired contract remain in...

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