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Contract Negotiations Between APWU and Postal Management Nearing ‘End Game’
May 14, 2025
Contract Negotiations Between APWU and Postal Management Nearing ‘End Game’
Join Webinar on Tuesday, May 13 at 7PM ET to Protect Our Postal Pensions!
May 12, 2025
Postal and Federal Pensions are at risk – APWU will be hosting a Legislative webinar on Tuesday, May 13 at 7-8PM ET titled Protect Our Pensions: Fight Back Against Proposed Retirement Cuts to explain its devastating impacts and how we can combat...
NYC Zara Workers Get a Raise
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
After months of protest and pressure from a workers campaign, Zara clothing retail workers in New York City received a raise.
In a letter to employees,...
Postal Clerk Remembers Bloody Sunday
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Distribution Clerk George James was just 15 when he tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965.
He says he had no idea history would be...
May Day: Fighting for the Eight-Hour Day
April 30, 2015
Chicago in the 1880s was a hotbed of labor organizing.
Fed up with the status quo, where industrial workers toiled long hours in squalid conditions, the International Working People’s Association formed in 1883 and dedicated its resources to...
Pittsburgh City Council Joins ‘Stop Staples’ Campaign
April 24, 2015
The Pittsburgh City Council unanimously passed a Will of Council resolution in support of the Stop Staples campaign on April 7.
“The City of Pittsburgh will urge its citizens to become aware of these threats to the Postal Service and the efforts...
Long Island Area Local Demands ‘Dignity and Respect’ at Bargaining Table
April 22, 2015
More than 300 attended the Long Island Area Local’s Day of protest on Sunday, April 12, when members demanded to be “treated with the dignity and respect we deserve at the bargaining table” and an end to the “under-the-table Staples deal.”