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Better Staffing, Better Service
August 2, 2024
A Grassroots Campaign to Improve Our Public Postal Service
An Update on the Social Security Fairness Act
July 31, 2024
The APWU has never stopped fighting to pass the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82, S. 597).
Photographer Honored Workers, Helped End Child Labor
October 31, 2013
In August, the Postal Service released a series of stamps honoring American workers. Many of the stamps’ images were captured in the 1930s by photographer Lewis Hine, whose pictures celebrate the skills, daring and dignity of the industrial workers...
APWU Contributes to Fight To Save Historic Post Offices
October 30, 2013
The APWU will make a $15,000 donation to the National Post Office Collaborate, an organization dedicated to fighting the sale of historic post offices, APWU President Cliff Guffey has announced. The Collaborate, which grew out of the fight to save...
And the Winners Are…
October 22, 2013
Fourteen locals and three retiree chapters will be rewarded for generating high levels of participation in the recent election of national union officers, Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell has announced. The top locals and retiree chapters in several...
Penalty Overtime Exclusion Period for 2013
October 21, 2013
In accordance with Article 8 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement [PDF], penalty overtime regulations are not applicable for a four-week period each year during December. This year, the period begins with Pay Period 26-13 (Nov. 30, 2013), and ends...
Union Wins ‘Global Settlement’ Remedy Case
October 17, 2013
In a decision issued Oct. 16, Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled that APWU members are entitled to retroactive pay for time postmasters or supervisors performed craft duties in excess of limits outlined in the Collective Bargaining Agreement. “This decision...