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Second Payment of $15 Million Settlement for Part-time Regular Workers Announced

June 22, 2025
Second Payment of $15 Million Settlement for Part-time Regular Workers Announced

Update: CDL Medical Certification Integration

June 18, 2025
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) adopted a rule change in 2015, along with many other components of this rule change, was the requirement that the Medical Examiner who performs a Commercial Driver Certification physical will...

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...

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