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Starkest Threat to Veterans' Benefits Is Project 2025, Another Trump Administration
October 23, 2024
More than 30,000 APWU members are Veterans, and many more have Veterans in their families or among their close friends. With Election Day drawing near, it’s important for APWU members to understand that Veterans’ issues are on the ballot once again...
Updated 2024 APWU Constitution Posted
October 22, 2024
The updated 2024 APWU Constitution & Bylaws has been posted.
Courage, Determination Forged Foundation for Chinese-American Labor
April 30, 2004
Like many others seeking a better life in America, the Chinese workers who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s suffered workplace exploitation and discrimination. And many decades would pass before they would begin to find...
Sweatshop Tragedy Ignites Fight for Workplace Safety
February 29, 2004
As women unionists struggled for better wages and working conditions, a tragic fire in New York City 93 years ago captured the nation’s attention and forever changed the course of labor history.
Union’s Anti-Discrimination Stance At Heart of WWII- Era Transit Strike
December 31, 2003
For five tense days in august 1944, a renegade faction of Philadelphia’s transit workers brought the city’s 2,600 trolleys, buses and trains to a standstill. The wildcat strike – staged to keep Black workers out of higher skilled jobs — was broken...
Moe, Remembered
October 31, 2003
Feisty, fiery, irascible, crusty, blunt, and tough — all terms used on the national stage, and with regularity, to describe Morris “Moe” Biller, who died Sept. 5, 2003, in New York. Moe was described in such ways for most of his 87 years. But those...
Newspaper Union Survives 150 Years of Changes, Then All But Disappears
June 30, 2003
In the middle of the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg combined his knowledge of molten metal with a colleague’s wine press to create the first publication to rely on reusable type. The German goldsmith’s invention of “movable” type launched both a...