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2025 APWU Scholarship Winners Announced!
July 9, 2025
The APWU proudly presents the winners of three scholarship programs: The E.C. Hallbeck Memorial Scholarship, Vocational Scholarship, and Best Essay Award for 2025!
Reconciliation Legislation Passes
July 3, 2025
On July 3, Trump's tax-and-spending reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed by narrow margins in the House and Senate, giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy paid for by the working class. While we successfully fought off the threats most...
‘Stakeholders’ Urge Congress To Give USPS Legislative Relief
November 20, 2008
The APWU is part of a group of 50 postal unions, management associations, and mailers that has asked Congress to help the agency during the current nationwide financial difficulties by giving legislative relief to its retiree health-insurance...
USPS Denies Existence of Program to Eliminate Tour 2
November 18, 2008
In response to an inquiry from APWU President Burrus, the Postal Service has denied that it is “considering or is in the process of implementing a nationwide program establishing a two-tour operation, which is intended to eliminate or greatly reduce...
Postal, Federal Employees Can Now Wear Election Gear
November 18, 2008
With the national election concluded, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has issued instructions that allow postal and federal employees to wear T-shirts that display candidates’ names and/or pictures while on duty or in a postal or federal...
Bush’s Lame-Duck Labor Department To Implement Onerous FMLA Rule Changes
November 17, 2008
As the Bush administration prepares to leave office, it is giving workers one more kick in the teeth: The Department of Labor announced last week that it would implement new regulations governing the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) that will...
Department of Labor Extends Deadline to Nov. 25
November 10, 2008
The U.S. Department of Labor, which is supervising a re-run election of the race for Clerk Division National Business Agent for the Dallas Region, has announced it will extend the deadline for returning ballots until 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 25....