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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).
'Stay In Your Lane, APWU'?
August 27, 2024
Western Regional Coordinator Omar Gonzalez explains the importance of union involvement beyond the workroom floor including economic, political, and social justice as outlined in our National Constitution & Bylaws.
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APWU Joins UNI Discussion Of Future of Women in the Workforce
November 20, 2010
APWU Research and Education Director Joyce Robinson inspired women union leaders at a conference in Japan to support the Union Network International’s demand that multinational corporations create good jobs and decent work for women workers.
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Son-in-Law of APWU Member Killed in Afghanistan
November 19, 2010
Sgt. Kevin Pape, son-in-law of APWU member Rose Knipp, was killed in Afghanistan Nov. 16. The 30-year-old staff sergeant died when the Taliban attacked his unit during combat operations in Konar Province.
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Guffey: USPS Will Have to Do Better
November 18, 2010
Postal Service negotiators continue to express interest in APWU contract proposals, “but so far have failed to put anything in writing,” APWU President Cliff Guffey reported to the Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee on Nov. 18.
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Union Pushes for Job Security
November 17, 2010
APWU President Cliff Guffey briefed the union’s Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee on Wednesday morning, saying, “Our goal in these negotiations is to make our members feel as though they can stick around and feel secure in their jobs.
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Guffey: ‘Real Efforts’ to Reach Agreement Begin
November 16, 2010
“Real efforts” to reach an agreement with the Postal Service on the terms of a new contract began Monday afternoon when the union’s top negotiators held a closed-door meeting with high-ranking postal officials, APWU President Cliff Guffey said.