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Postal Workers and Allies: Stop the Slowdown!
January 17, 2025
Stop the Slowdown! The Postal Service proposed plans to decrease service standards to the detriment of our communities. Here’s why hundreds of thousands members of the public are standing up and fighting back against efforts to degrade the country’s...
Our Labor History: National Strike Against GE and New York Transit Strike
January 17, 2025
This month in Labor History, we look back at two major strikes that shifted their industries: the General Electric and Westinghouse nationwide strike of over 800,000 auto and steelworkers, and the New York City Transit Strike which shut down the...
PRESIDENT BIDEN SIGNS POSTAL REFORM INTO LAW
April 6, 2022
On Wednesday, April 6, President Joe Biden signed the Postal Service Reform Act into law at a White House ceremony. President Mark Dimondstein and Legislative and Political Director Judy Beard were invited to witness the signing ceremony and...
President Dimondstein Signs Annual Leave Exchange and Annual Leave Carryover MOUs
April 5, 2022
In addition to the extension of the COVID-19 MOUs, President Dimondstein signed off on the two additional MOUs: one that allows for the increased annual leave carry over from leave year 2022 to leave year 2023 and one that allows for additional...
What...did you not vote on the CBA?
March 24, 2022
By now the fate of the contract is decided. You either exercised the power of your membership or let it go to waste. If you voted, thanks, because for over 180 years postal workers had very little, if any, say in their employment. The Post Office...
We need Your Help! (Does Your Postal Facility Look Like This?)
March 24, 2022
We need Postal facilities fully restored with mail processing equipment, properly postal staffed, and we need our 2012 service standards back (94%-97% performance scores).
President's Column: Team APWU - Bringing home the Gold!
March 23, 2022
Wow! Just months into 2022 and great news on two fronts: First: Our Collective Bargaining Agreement covering the wages, benefits, and working conditions of 200,000 postal workers has been overwhelmingly ratified with a 94% “Yes” vote by those who...