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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.

APWU Members Trained to Take US Mail – Not for Sale Campaign Out to the Field

April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Sixteen APWU members participated in a “train-thetrainer” for the APWU’s US Mail – Not for Sale Anti-Privatization campaign. Members from coast-to-...

Clerk Craft Updates

April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson  National Grievances As a result of the Clerk Craft’s win in the Sales Retention Team dispute, the USPS...

Strikes, Shutdown and Service — Public Servants Rise in Defense of the Public Good

April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Conventional wisdom suggested that the anti-union Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME last summer spelled the inevitable decline of public sector...

Advocating for Postal Banking in the U.S. and Canada

April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) As was previously reported in the American Postal Worker, the Canadian government forced striking Canadian Union of Postal Workers back to work at...

What's to Come in Interest Arbitration

April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman  Our efforts to reach a new contract are now entering the next phases of mediation and interest...

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