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United Auto Workers Union Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against Union-Busting Scab Trump, Musk
August 16, 2024
The United Auto Workers (UAW) filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge against former President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Aug. 13, after the far-right billionaire cronies discussed illegally intimidating workers on strike by...
Sixth COLA Increase Announced
August 14, 2024
In accordance with the 2021-2024 Collective Bargaining Agreement, career employees represented by the APWU will receive a $0.47 per hour cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), effective September 7, 2024.
Celebrate: '100 Years of Progress'
August 15, 2006
Chester Parrish, left, and President William Burrus
cut into the ceremonial cake.
It would not have been much of a birthday without a cake, so the American Postal Workers Union kicked off its 18th Biennial National Convention with a salute to a...
Union Launches Ad Campaign to Combat Consolidation
July 26, 2006
Thirty-second television ads outline the
negative effects of consolidation on
mail service.
The APWU is taking its grassroots campaign against USPS “network realignment” to a new level by airing radio and television ads that warn of week-long delays...
Union President Condemns USPS Plans to Privatize AMCs
July 10, 2006
APWU President William Burrus has denounced Postal Service plans to subcontract work currently performed by bargaining unit employees at more than half of the nation’s Air Mail Centers. “This ill-advised adventure would privatize an important and...
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John L. Lewis: A Giant Among Labor Leaders
June 30, 2006
A dominant figure in labor history, John L. Lewis was the founding force behind several national unions and a leader of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) for more than 40 years. In aiding the union struggle for better wages and benefits, he...
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Joe Hill: Labor’s Legendary Troubadour
April 30, 2006
At sunrise on Nov. 19, 1915, a firing squad at the Utah State Penitentiary executed a labor activist who many people believed had been falsely convicted of murder.
Nearly a century later, the legend of “Joe Hill” is frequently invoked in the ongoing...