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Maitenance PTR Payment Distribution Is on the Way
January 14, 2025
BREAKING NEWS: Your share of the PTR payment distribution is on the way
Preventing Injuries While Lifting Objects on the Workroom Floor
January 14, 2025
The Industrial Relations Department shares proper lifting techniques to avoid injury when moving heavy parcels and sacks:
Inspector General: USPS Wasted $17.8 Million on FedEx Contract
March 17, 2008
An audit by the USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has concluded that during Fiscal Years 2005 and 2006, the Postal Service’s Pacific Area incurred approximately $17.8 million in unnecessary costs by the use of “expensive FedEx...
Mail Network Protection Act Steadily Gaining Co-Sponsors
March 14, 2008
As of mid-March, 55 members of the House of Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of an anti-subcontracting measure supported by the APWU. The Mail Network Protection Act (H.R. 4236), which was introduced in November by Rep. Stephen Lynch (D...
Union Activists Urged to Fight Proposals to Gut FMLA
March 6, 2008
APWU President William Burrus has issued a call to action, asking the union’s officers and activists to fight proposed new regulations that would weaken the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
“The FMLA is the one of the most important pro-worker...
Dispute Filed Over Postal Service Data Security Breaches/Missing Laptops
March 3, 2008
The APWU has filed a national-level dispute over the Postal Service's data security breaches involving missing or stolen laptop computers containing personal and confidential information of APWU bargaining unit employees.
1912 Textile Strike Put Women in the Line of Fire
February 29, 2008
Early in the 20th Century, fully half of the 80,000 people living in Lawrence, MA, labored in its textile industry. The typical workplace was dimly lit, dangerously cramped with machinery, cold in the winter, and hot in the summer. Most of the...