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Standing Strong to Build a Bigger Union and Advance Forward, Together
July 29, 2024
The best way to win big is by “standing strong” to build a bigger union. Members should continue to encourage nonmember coworkers to join the APWU.
Negotiations is Our Path to Winning an All-Career Workforce
July 29, 2024
Industrial Relations Director Charlie Cash provides overview of APWU’s main objectives during contract negotiations.
Atlanta APWU Members Brave Cold to ‘Stop Staples’
March 4, 2014
Seventy-five APWU members and supporters braved cold weather and high winds on March 4 to protest outside a Staples store in Atlanta and demand that the company staff “postal counters” in its stores with postal employees. Atlanta is one of four test...
NLRB: USPS Must Give APWU Staples Info
March 3, 2014
In a complaint issued Feb. 25, Region 5 of the National Labor Relations Board found merit in APWU charges [PDF] that the Postal Service has improperly refused to provide the union with information about its agreement with Staples. [NLRB complaint] ...
PRC Dismisses APWU Service Complaint
March 3, 2014
The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) has dismissed an APWU complaint which charges that the Postal Service is failing to meet its own service standards regarding the delivery of first-class mail. The union brought the complaint in its capacity as...
A Safe Workplace: It’s Not a Matter of Luck
March 1, 2014
(This article appears in the May-June 2014 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Tony D. McKinnon Sr., Industrial Relations Director
Our members want to be assured that we will leave work each day as healthy as we were when we arrived.
And...
Is Postal Banking an Idea Whose Time Has Come?
March 1, 2014
The USPS Office of Inspector General sparked quite a controversy when it published a white paper in late January that endorsed a concept postal unions have quietly supported for years: The Postal Service should provide basic financial services to...