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APWU Launches National Ad; Warns of Price Hikes, Post Office Closures in Anti-Privatization Campaign

July 21, 2025
This week the American Postal workers Union (APWU) launched a national advertising campaign on  to alert the public about proposed plans to privatize the public postal service. The ad called “Memo” highlights a document sent by Wells Fargo Equity...

APWU Arbitration Award Secures Grievance Rights for Separated Non-Probationary Employees

July 17, 2025
The APWU has secured a major victory for the rights of non-probationary employees who are discharged without just cause from the Postal Service to file grievances on those discharges and have them heard in arbitration, Industrial Relations Director...

MVS Operators Honored for Safe Driving by National Safety Council

October 30, 2015
Jimmy Ellis  Charles Pettus Two MVS tractor-trailer operators have been issued awards in recognition of their safe driving records.  Jimmy Ellis of the Greater Seattle Area Local and Charles Pettus of the Oakland Local received Joseph M. Kaplan Safe...

‘Stand Up for Safe Jobs’ Campaign Underway

October 29, 2015
Last year, more than 36,000 postal workers were injured or sickened at work and at least 10 suffered fatalities. “Here’s the simple truth,” APWU President Mark Dimondstein and Industrial Relations Director Tony D. McKinnon Sr. wrote in a letter to...

Maine AFL-CIO Joins Grand Alliance, Backs Postal Banking

October 28, 2015
Members of the Maine AFL-CIO adopted resolutions supporting two important postal issues at their 30th biennial convention on Oct. 22 and 23 -- in support of postal banking and to join A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service. APWU...

New Congressional Majority Against Mail Delays

October 28, 2015
The legislative movement against delayed mail achieved an important milestone over the past week. For the first time, an outright majority of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is now calling for an end to delayed mail and the return...

Young Workers Learn How to Educate, Agitate, Organize!

October 28, 2015
Young workers discuss how to refute common misconceptions about the economy and practice the art of persuasion. 2015 was the centennial of the execution of labor activist Joe Hill. His famous last words were, “Don't mourn... Organize.” These were...

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