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2024 Penalty Overtime Exclusion Period
August 27, 2024
The "Penalty Overtime Exclusion" period for calendar year 2024 will begin Pay Period 26-2024, Week 1 (November 30, 2024) and end Pay Period 01-2025, Week 2 (December 27, 2024).
'Stay In Your Lane, APWU'?
August 27, 2024
Western Regional Coordinator Omar Gonzalez explains the importance of union involvement beyond the workroom floor including economic, political, and social justice as outlined in our National Constitution & Bylaws.
Postmaster General Petition Demonstrates Power of Alliance
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The collection and presentation of more than 400,000 petitions to the Postal Service Board of Governors regarding their appointment of the next...
Starting Strong, Looking Ahead
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Happy New Year! It was a great way to end last year when 250 non-supervisory postal workers at the Human Resource Shared Services Center in NC...
"The People's Postal Service: No One Gets Left Off the List" Holiday Ad
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
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John R. Smith, First Retirees Director, Passes Away
January 16, 2020
John R. Smith, former Retirees Department Director, passed away Jan. 11, at the age of 91. Brother Smith (known by most as “JR”) was the first ever director of the Retirees Department. At the time of his retirement from the APWU on May 7, 2005,...
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Over 400,000 People Demand a Postmaster General Who Supports the Public Postal Service
January 9, 2020
On Jan. 6, APWU national officers, fellow union members, organizers and activists, many from organizations in A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service (Grand Alliance), gathered at USPS Headquarters to demand the Postal Board of Governors...