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Reconciliation Legislation Passes - Attacks on Postal Pensions DEFEATED

July 3, 2025
On July 3, Trump's tax-and-spending reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed by narrow margins in the House and Senate, giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy paid for by the working class. While we successfully fought off the threats most...

Privatizers Lay Out Their Plan for Destroying Public Postal Service

June 30, 2025
On June 24, the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing titled, “The Route Forward for the U.S. Postal Service: A View from Stakeholders.”

Refinery Workers Strike for Safety

March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)  On Feb. 1, for the first time in 35 years, the United Steel Workers Union (USW) announced work stoppages at oil refineries in five states to protest...

Mental Health Workers at Kaiser Hospitals Strike

March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)  “Mental health, not corporate wealth!” That’s the plea of 2,600 National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) mental health employees at Kaiser...

Democracy Initiative Aims to Take Money Out of Politics

March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)  Alarmed by the increasing role of corporate funding of elections and the suppression of voting rights in recent elections, a coalition known as the...

The TPP: A Secret, Dirty Deal

March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)  A trade deal the U.S. is negotiating in secret with 11 other countries would slash labor rights; obstruct access to medication; degrade food safety...

APWU Joins "Government Works for America" Rally

March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)  Members of the APWU endured freezing temperatures with their brothers and sisters from other federal and postal unions at a “Government Works for...

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