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Looking Back: Black Workers Organize ‘Revolutionary Union Movement’
May 19, 2025
This month in Labor History, we look back at the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement of 1968 - when over 4,000 Black workers who were fed up with racist policies organized a two-day strike at Chrysler’s Hamtracmck plant to demand improvements for...
Welcome and Gratitude
May 19, 2025
Health Plan Director Sarah J. Rodriguez expresses gratitude for members’ support of the APWU Health Plan, sharing excellent satisfactory rankings in payment accuracy, financial accuracy, and administrative accuracy.
Two Consolidation Studies Scrapped
January 18, 2007
The U.S. Postal Service announced in early January that it was calling off the only Area Mail Processing studies in the states of Montana and North Carolina.
In a written statement on Jan. 5, the Postal Service said that it had dropped plans to...
Membership Ratifies Four-Year Contract
January 12, 2007
Rank-and-File Advisory Bargaining
Committee members Thomasine
Derricks, Princella Vogel, and Jack
Dougherty observe the vote count
in Washington on Jan. 12. Vogel
chairs the committee.
APWU members ratified a four-year Collective Bargaining...
APWU Files Suit on Jurisdictional Disputes
January 5, 2007
The APWU has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, charging that the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and U.S. Postal Service have violated a national-level three-party agreement that establishes procedures for resolving disputes over work...
Contract Ratification Balloting Extended to Jan. 12
January 5, 2007
Balloting in the ratification of the tentative agreement will be extended until Jan. 12, the Rank-and-File Bargaining Committee has announced. “We want to ensure that every interested APWU member has an opportunity to participate,” said Princella...
Frederick Douglass: Activist, Orator, Publisher, Statesman
December 31, 2006
Unquestionably, the single greatest leap forward in the quest for social and economic justice is the abolition of slavery. In the United States, after decades of struggle and a bloody civil war, slavery was formally abolished in 1865. Today, while...