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Maintenance Dream Team 2024
July 30, 2024
Maintenance Craft Director Idowu Balogun provides an in-depth analysis of how a maintenance craft resolution becomes a contract proposal.
Clerk Division Encourages Postal Service to "Think Outside of the Box"
July 30, 2024
Clerk Craft Director Lamont Brooks provides a summary of the Retail Training Taskforce MOU, which details methods to expand services offered to postal customers, including permits, TSA pre-checks, voter registration.
USPS Needs Real Reform – Not More Austerity
April 9, 2014
The Postal Service needs real reform — not the austerity proposed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and the White House, APWU President Mark Dimondstein said after an April 8 hearing by a House committee. The hearing of the Oversight and Government Reform...
Locations Announced for April 24 Protests to ‘Stop Staples’
April 8, 2014
APWU local leaders are hard at work organizing protests for the APWU’s National Day of Action on April 24 at Staples Stores around the country. Union members and supporters will oppose a sweetheart deal between the office-supply retail chain and the...
‘Stop Staples,’ Chicago Activists Say
April 7, 2014
Hundreds of APWU members, joined by hundreds of labor and community activists, took to the streets outside a Staples store in Elmwood Park, IL to protest a no-bid, sweetheart deal between the U.S. Postal Service and Staples to set up postal “...
Staples Deal Still a Secret — But Hearing Reveals Disturbing Truths
April 7, 2014
The Postal Service and Staples are working overtime to keep the details of their sweetheart deal a secret, but a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board — and documents the USPS was forced to provide to the APWU — have revealed some...
New Organizing Toolkit Available
April 3, 2014
A new organizing toolkit is now available, Organization Department Director Anna Smith has announced. The new kit includes a Welcome Book [PDF], a brochure specially designed for PSEs [PDF], a new union sign-up form [PDF], and a host of other...