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Reconciliation Legislation Passes - Attacks on Postal Pensions DEFEATED

July 3, 2025
On July 3, Trump's tax-and-spending reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed by narrow margins in the House and Senate, giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy paid for by the working class. While we successfully fought off the threats most...

Privatizers Lay Out Their Plan for Destroying Public Postal Service

June 30, 2025
On June 24, the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing titled, “The Route Forward for the U.S. Postal Service: A View from Stakeholders.”

Washington Post Gets It Wrong

May 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) In a Feb. 13, 2017 opinion piece,  “The Postal Service needs more than a Band-Aid,” The Washington Post editorial board issued a troubling public stance...

The Market for International Remittances is Hot

May 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The market for international remittances – sending money abroad – is rapidly expanding. Between 2010 and 2014, money transfers worldwide increased...

Be Part of Our Democracy – Support ‘Vote by Mail’

May 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By Executive Vice President Debby Szeredy Voter registration in our country is in a sorry state. in the 2016 general election, not all eligible voters...

Higher Union Membership Boosts Wages for All

May 1, 2017
APWU Grassroots Political & Legislative Coordinator Janice Kelble (second from right)  with community activists (L-R) Jeff Kramer, Kathy Staub, Keith Yergeau,  Elizabeth Ropp, Emily Eastman and Eric Zulaski after “right to work” law was defeated...

‘In Order to Form a More Perfect Union’

May 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By President Mark Dimondstein  The preamble to the U.S. Constitution includes the well-known and eloquent words, “in order to form a more perfect union...

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