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APWU President Mark Dimondstein's Opening Remarks for 2024 Contract Negotiations

June 25, 2024
Read President Dimondstein's strong remarks to lead off opening day of contract talks.  

Management Reducing Package Presort Discounts

June 14, 2024
The Postal Service is in the early stages of eliminating the deepest of several discounts where package consolidators sort to the Destination Delivery Units (DDUs) and five-digit presort.

Arbitrator Grants Postal Nurses Raises, Job Security

April 30, 2009
An arbitration panel finalized a five-year contract for postal nurses on April 28 — the first since the National Postal Professional Nurses merged with the APWU. The ruling came more than 20 months after the nurses’ independent Collective Bargaining...

APWU Member Back From 2nd Tour in Iraq

April 7, 2009
APWU member Drew Yerger is looking forward to his second time around as a window clerk. It will be a pleasant change of pace and workplace: His last job was in the Iraqi desert. It was his second time around there, too.

Postal Nurses’ Interest Arbitration Hearings Conclude

April 6, 2009
Interest-arbitration hearings over a contract between the National Postal Professional Nurses-APWU and the Postal Service concluded April 2. Arbitrator Stephen Goldberg is expected to issue a ruling within the next several weeks on the wages, hours...

Locals Urged to File OSHA Complaints on DBCSs

March 31, 2009
The APWU is urging locals to file OSHA complaints over identified ergonomic hazards on Delivery Bar Code Sorter machines. In a letter to local presidents, Industrial Relations Director Greg Bell asked locals with DBCS machines to file OSHA...

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