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17,000 AT&T Workers Strike Across Southeastern US
August 23, 2024
More than 17,000 AT&T workers across nine southeastern states walked off their jobs on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. The workers, represented by Communications Workers of America (CWA), filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge against AT&T...
Statement from APWU President Mark Dimondstein on the Postal Service’s Proposal to Further Slow Mail Processing and Delivery
August 23, 2024
The American Postal Workers Union is deeply concerned regarding the August 22nd announcement from postal management, with the support of the Postal Board of Governors, that they are once again planning to slow down much of the country’s mail.
The...
1912 Textile Strike Put Women in the Line of Fire
February 29, 2008
Early in the 20th Century, fully half of the 80,000 people living in Lawrence, MA, labored in its textile industry. The typical workplace was dimly lit, dangerously cramped with machinery, cold in the winter, and hot in the summer. Most of the...
Anti-Subcontracting Measure Attracting Support
February 28, 2008
Several more “co-sponsors” have signed on to show their support for the Mail Network Protection Act (H.R. 4236), which would require the Postal Service to bargain with postal unions before it engages in significant subcontracting.
In February, these...
APWU Requests Investigation Of Private Contractors’ Use of USPS Property
February 28, 2008
APWU President William Burrus has asked USPS Inspector General David Williams to conduct an audit of the postal practice of permitting subcontractors to park trucks and store equipment on USPS property free-of-charge. The practice raises USPS...
APWU Continues the ‘Family’ Tradition
February 27, 2008
The Fort Wayne Area Local’s organizing drive last year yielded
135 new members.Organizing Committee Co-Chair Amy Sutcliffe,
left, and Stephanie DeBolt prepare a bulk mailing during the campaign.
In 2007, when the APWU launched a Women’s Organizing...
Latest CPI Increase Means $479 Annual Pay Hike
February 21, 2008
The Consumer Price Index rose in January, the last month of the most recent six-month Cost-of-Living measuring period under the 2006 National Agreement. The rise in the CPI gives APWU-represented employees an annual raise of $479.
The Cost-Of-Living...