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APWU National Executive Board Endorses Vice President Kamala Harris for the Next President of the United States

July 23, 2024
On July 23, 2024, the APWU National Executive Board voted unanimously to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the next President of the United States. One day earlier, the AFL-CIO Executive Council, where the APWU is represented by  President...

Postal Workers Deserve a Great Contract!

July 23, 2024
Below is an excerpt from my address at the opening of national negotiations. The [APWU] welcomes this opportunity to represent approximately 200,000 postal workers in these important negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between our...

Infrastructure, Voting Rights, Retirement Security: Our Fight Continues

May 7, 2021
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) After the American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law on March 11, we turned our sights to another key legislative package being eyed by the Biden...

Postal Banking Gaining Steam in Congress

May 7, 2021
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Members of Congress are making waves in the fight to win postal banking in the United States. As they did in the last Congress, Representatives Bill...

Labor News

May 7, 2021
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) 1,300 Steelworkers on Strike Across Five States On March 30, around 1,300 workers, represented by the United Steelworkers (USW), began a strike at nine...

APWU/USPS concluded ET- 11 Virtual LMOU Negotiations

May 3, 2021
The Maintenance Division recently concluded the negotiation for National Support Technicians Local Memorandum of Understanding on April 19, 2021, after several months of delays due to the COVID pandemic. The parties agreed to continue to explore...

Second Round of Payments for POStPlan Staffing

April 30, 2021
On April 26, 2021, the Postal Service informed the Clerk Craft that it had partially input the second round of payments required by the national-level award, dated June 17, 2017 authored by Arbitrator Stephen B. Goldberg in Case #Q10C-4Q-C-15206043...

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