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Recent Polling Shows Registered Voters Overwhelmingly Favor Public Postal Service, Expanding Services
May 8, 2025
In February, the APWU commissioned a national survey to better understand the public’s sentiment on the public Postal Service and attempts at privatization. Here are the key takeaways
PRESS RELEASE: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Privatizing the U.S. Postal Service, Finds New Survey from Democratic and Republican Polling firms
May 8, 2025
WASHINGTON – New polling shows that postal customers strongly believe that proposals to privatize the United States Postal Service should be marked “Return to Sender.” In a national survey of 1,402 registered voters, those surveyed oppose postal...
COLA Projection for 2017?
September 1, 2016
This article first appeared in the September-October 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
As we go to press it is too early to know if retirees will receive a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase in 2017.
The Social Security...
Employee Rights During Interrogations
September 1, 2016
This article first appeared in the September-October 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Postal employees are subject to investigation by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and/or Postal Inspection Service for off-duty as well as...
The New Contract and Maintenance
September 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
In case you missed it, we have a new Collective Bargaining Agreement! The Maintenance Craft was successful in our primary goal of eliminating...
Important Gains for the Clerk Craft
September 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Contract negotiations were challenging and arbitration was uncertain, but, in the end, the APWU was able to move forward on many issues union...
To Open Local Negotiations or Not?
September 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
With the 2015-2018 national contract now settled, locals must decide whether or not they wish to open local negotiations with the Postal...