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Big News!! APWU, USPS Reach Tentative Agreement on New Union Contract!
June 6, 2025
The American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service have reached a tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), announced APWU President and Lead Negotiator Mark Dimondstein. The proposed union contract is three years in duration:...
House Passes Bill to Eliminate the FERS Supplemental “Bridge” Payment
May 22, 2025
The House just passed H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which eliminates the FERS supplemental bridge payment and funnels $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy. Our fight now moves to the Senate.
Thousands of Alliance Members Join Tele-Town Hall Calls with Candidates
October 3, 2014
More than 6,000 Alliance members dialed in Monday night on a tele-town hall conference call with Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), with several of the activists asking Sen. Hagan questions. Seniors advocate Jon “Bowzer” Bauman of the musical group Sha Na Na...
APWU President Appeared on Radio Oct. 3
October 2, 2014
APWU Backs Retirees’ Demand to Re-Open Social Security Offices
October 2, 2014
APWU President Mark Dimondstein spoke at a rally sponsored by the Alliance for Retired Americans on Oct. 2, as the group delivered petitions with more than 700,000 signatures demanding that the Social Security Administration reopen field offices....
Powell Addresses Black Women's Round Table
October 1, 2014
APWU Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell discussed the important role postal banking could play in ending predatory lending in poor and minority communities, where many residents don’t have bank accounts.
The 'Strike for Better Schools'
September 30, 2014
Almost 70 years after a strike by St. Paul teachers, their battle holds lessons for today’s postal workers and other public employees: The educators didn’t strike only on their own behalf – they walked a picket line for better schools.
In 1946, the...