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APWU National Executive Board Endorses Vice President Kamala Harris for the Next President of the United States
July 23, 2024
On July 23, 2024, the APWU National Executive Board voted unanimously to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the next President of the United States. One day earlier, the AFL-CIO Executive Council, where the APWU is represented by President...
Postal Workers Deserve a Great Contract!
July 23, 2024
Below is an excerpt from my address at the opening of national negotiations.
The [APWU] welcomes this opportunity to represent approximately 200,000 postal workers in these important negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between our...
Why Congress Can’t Get It Done
September 11, 2014
Why can’t Congress get anything done on postal reform? It seems I’m asked that question all the time – in conversations at conferences and conventions, in letters, phone calls and email correspondence.
In part, the answer is a lack of understanding...
Setting Priorities, Mobilizing Members For Contract Negotiations
September 11, 2014
On the final day of the APWU 22nd Biennial National Convention in July, delegates adopted a resolution that spells out priorities for upcoming contract negotiations with the USPS, which are set to begin in February. The Collective Bargaining...
Protecting Freedom or Trampling Workers’ Rights?
September 11, 2014
Isn’t it amazing that every time anti-union groups claim they are protecting our freedom, they are actually steamrolling working people?
Take the so-called “right to work” legislation that has been proposed in many states. Its supporters claim they...
Consolidation Attack – We Must Mobilize!
September 11, 2014
When the USPS announced on June 30 that it would move forward with plans to close or consolidate 82 more mail processing plants, it was a declaration of war. Not just on postal workers, but on postal customers and on the existence of a public Postal...
Standing Up, Fighting Back!
September 10, 2014
Brothers and sisters: We are under attack from all quarters – Congress, Wall Street and the Postmaster General himself. Privatization is not a distant danger; it is a direct and immediate threat. A congressionally-manufactured financial crisis is...