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President Mark Dimondstein Updates Members on APWU Contract Negotiations
September 10, 2024
Greetings APWU Family,
With our main Collective Bargaining Agreement expiring on September 20th, I wanted to give you a status report.
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).
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...
Secretary-Treasurer Powell Honored with World Peace Prize for Labor Leadership
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
On Feb. 5, Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth “Liz” Powell was honored by the World Peace Prize Awarding Council (WPPAC) as a “Roving Ambassador for Peace...
What are the Requirements to Remain as a Chartered Local?
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
By Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell
Under the provisions of Article 16.4 of the APWU Constitution, the Secretary-Treasurer’s Department must notify...