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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...
India Will Implement Postal Banking To Better Serve Remote Residents
March 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
India Post is planning to implement postal banking later this year, in order to better serve residents in rural and remote areas.
As part of the plan...
APWU Joins Democracy Initiative
February 29, 2016
Five years ago the “Citizens United” Supreme Court ruling unleashed unlimited, and often secret, corporate cash into the political process and elections. Now just 158 families will contribute over 50 percent of the billions being spent on the 2016...
APWU Joins Democracy Initiative
February 29, 2016
Five years after the “Citizens United” Supreme Court ruling unleashed unlimited and often secret corporate cash into the political process and elections, and with voter suppression on the rise, the APWU has joined the “Democracy Initiative,” a...
Women Workers Defy Their Boss and Win a Union
February 29, 2016
New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug, right foreground, walks a picket
line supporting striking Farah workers in Houston on Feb. 10, 1973.
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Factory...
The U.S. Mail Is NOT for Sale
February 29, 2016
1. Why is there a boycott of Staples?
Because Staples and the U.S. Postal Service cut a deal setting up phony “post offices” inside their stores.