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President Mark Dimondstein Updates Members on APWU Contract Negotiations

September 10, 2024
Greetings APWU Family, With our main Collective Bargaining Agreement expiring on September 20th, I wanted to give you a status report.

An Update on the Social Security Fairness Act

September 6, 2024
Time is running out to get the Social Security Fairness Act (HR 82) passed. We are asking every APWU member to call Monday, September 9th and demand our representatives sign the discharge petition (HR 1410).

Let’s Get the Year Started Right!

January 1, 2017
“As long as we collectively work together, stand together and fight together, we can do any doggone thing we want to do!”  said Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell at the Rally for Social and Economic Justice and Equality. Photo courtesy of NNU  (This...

Organize to Fight Consolidations!

January 1, 2017
APWU members and allies hold a protest to save the Duluth, MN, processing plant.  (This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) It is time to assess our goals for the next three years. we...

Some Thoughts on the 2016 Election and Beyond

January 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) I want to commend all the members who engaged in the political process of the 2016 election season, those who registered voters, knocked on...

First Meeting of Young Members Committee

January 1, 2017
The National Young Members Committee with National Officers.  (L-R) (front row) Courtney Jenkins, Sabrina Larsen, Ephrem De Hoyos, Quanisha Mcneal, Joshua Gray  (back row) Zach DeRuyter, Matt Thomas, Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell, President Mark...

January-February Labor History Milestones

December 31, 2016
Strikers marching during the 1912 “Bread and Roses” textile strike.  Photo courtesy of the Lawrence History Center (This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)  January 11, 1912 – The...

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