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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...
Custodian Team Cleaning (CTC): Doomed to Fail
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
By Maintenance Division Director Idowu Balogun
Beginning in 2012, The US Postal Service embarked on a “Pilot” program to replace the 1983...
Clerk Craft Updates
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
By Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson
National Grievances
As a result of the Clerk Craft’s win in the Sales Retention Team dispute, the USPS...
APWU Members Trained to Take US Mail – Not for Sale Campaign Out to the Field
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Sixteen APWU members participated in a “train-thetrainer” for the APWU’s US Mail – Not for Sale Anti-Privatization campaign. Members from coast-to-...
Strikes, Shutdown and Service — Public Servants Rise in Defense of the Public Good
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Conventional wisdom suggested that the anti-union Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME last summer spelled the inevitable decline of public sector...
What's to Come in Interest Arbitration
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman
Our efforts to reach a new contract are now entering the next phases of mediation and interest...