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APWU Launches National Ad; Warns of Price Hikes, Post Office Closures in Anti-Privatization Campaign

July 21, 2025
This week the American Postal workers Union (APWU) launched a national advertising campaign on  to alert the public about proposed plans to privatize the public postal service. The ad called “Memo” highlights a document sent by Wells Fargo Equity...

APWU Arbitration Award Secures Grievance Rights for Separated Non-Probationary Employees

July 17, 2025
The APWU has secured a major victory for the rights of non-probationary employees who are discharged without just cause from the Postal Service to file grievances on those discharges and have them heard in arbitration, Industrial Relations Director...

President Dimondstein Presents the Struggle for Shorter Working Hours at AFL-CIO Convention

June 13, 2022
On June 13, APWU President Mark Dimondstein addressed the delegates at the 2022 AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia, introducing a resolution that supports a shorter work week with no reduction in pay/benefits. Read his transcript:

Don't Let the Postal Service check Your "Pulse!"

June 8, 2022
Starting June 14 through July 15 2022, the USPS is pushing its annual Postal Pulse Survey. The APWU leadership urges you to not let the Postal Service take your Pulse! Management surveys have been used as a weapon against the APWU during contract...

Arbitration Advocacy Training Registration

June 8, 2022
Arbitration Advocacy Training Registration (August 28 - September 4, 2022). The training is designed to provide an in-depth knowledge of the techniques needed to effectively prepare a case for arbitration. To attend the training, APWU members must...

IT/AS Town Hall Zoom Meetings Scheduled June 13 & 15 on New Tentative Agreement

June 8, 2022
Register to attend one of the Town Hall Zoom Meetings for the Information Technology/Accounting Services (IT/AS) unit to review/discuss the terms of the new tentative agreement! Multiple dates/times are offered betweeen June 13 and 15. Click on the...

National Jurisdictional Award Issued over Universal Sorting System

May 27, 2022
On May 24, 2022, Arbitrator Joseph M. Sharnoff issued a lengthy award on the APWU-NPMHU jurisdictional dispute over the Universal Sorting System (USS). Arbitrator Sharnoff upheld the Postal Service’s 2019 determination that all operations on the USS...

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