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An Update on the Social Security Fairness Act
September 6, 2024
Time is running out to get the Social Security Fairness Act (HR 82) passed. We are asking every APWU member to call Monday, September 9th and demand our representatives sign the discharge petition (HR 1410).
2024 Penalty Overtime Exclusion Period
August 27, 2024
The "Penalty Overtime Exclusion" period for calendar year 2024 will begin Pay Period 26-2024, Week 1 (November 30, 2024) and end Pay Period 01-2025, Week 2 (December 27, 2024).
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Vote NO on Issa Bill
May 6, 2014
The presidents of the four postal employee unions – the APWU, the National Association of Letter Carriers, the National Rural Letter Carriers Association and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union – have written to members of the House of...
Retirees to Receive Final Early Retirement Incentive Check
May 5, 2014
When retirees pick up their final incentive checks, it presents a great opportunity to invite these former APWU members to join the union’s Retirees Department.
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APWU Members, Supporters Ramp Up Stop Staples Campaign
May 1, 2014
APWU members were exuberant after staging 56 Stop Staples protests in 27 states on April 24 – and momentum is building.
Carrying signs and chanting, “The U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale,” participants got the message across. The protests received...
Understanding the Media
May 1, 2014
A January editorial in the “Colorado Springs Gazette” about the union’s campaign against the USPS deal with Staples begins with this: “Lingering on life support, the last thing the Postal Service needs is suffocating interference from an antiquated...
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Ludlow Massacre Forges Mine Workers’ Struggle
April 30, 2014
Life was not easy a century ago for coal miners in Southern Colorado, where heavily industrialized mines produced high-grade coal needed by the steel and railway industries.
The largest mining operation in the region, the Colorado Fuel and Iron...