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Update: CDL Medical Certification Integration

June 18, 2025
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) adopted a rule change in 2015, along with many other components of this rule change, was the requirement that the Medical Examiner who performs a Commercial Driver Certification physical will...

Candidates Nominated for APWU Election of National Officers

June 17, 2025
Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth "Liz" Powell has announced that the following union members have been certified as candidates for election to national office by referendum balloting, as mandated by the APWU Constitution and Bylaws.

Reporters Unionize

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) On June 3, workers at New York-based Gawker Media became the first employees of a major digital media company to organize a union. Journalists...

Big Wins for Migrant Workers, Thanks to Public Support

September 1, 2015
Western Washington University students at a blueberry picker strike at Sakuma Brothers Farms in late June. (This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Migrant workers across the country...

Secret Trade Deal Would Dismantle Our Postal Service

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) A trade deal the U.S. is negotiating behind closed doors with 50 other countries would dismantle our public Postal Service as we know it....

Secret Trade Deal Would Dismantle Our Postal Service

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) A trade deal the U.S. is negotiating behind closed doors with 50 other countries would dismantle our public Postal Service as we know it....

‘I Support Postal Banking!’

September 1, 2015
Activists protest payday lendors in Columbia, MO. A May 2015 white paper by the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) concludes that the Postal Service can act now to expand and enhance existing financial services, such as money orders,...

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