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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).

EAP Offer New Web-Based Therapy

May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Computerized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CCBT) is the newest addition to the bank of confidential Employees Assistance Program (EAP) services that are...

Supreme Court Shake Up

May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)   The changing composition of the U.S. Supreme Court will have a broad impact on postal workers and the labor movement as a whole.    

Postal Banking: The Antidote to Abusive Lending

May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) One of the big topics in this year’s presidential election is the influence of Wall Street on our economy – from too much power in the hands of the big...

A Criminal Gets Off Easy

May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) You may have heard recently of the conviction of a criminal named Don Blankenship. He was sentenced to one year in prison. I am one who believes our...

Contract Arbitration Gets Underway

May 1, 2016
Mark Barrett, Heather Stewart and Georgena Walker. (This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Interest arbitration hearings for our new contract got underway in February and continued in March...

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