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Management Reducing Package Presort Discounts
June 14, 2024
The Postal Service is in the early stages of eliminating the deepest of several discounts where package consolidators sort to the Destination Delivery Units (DDUs) and five-digit presort.
Industrial Relations Director Charlie Cash Announces 2025 Annual Leave Exchange and Carryover MOUs
June 13, 2024
Industrial Relations Director Charlie Cash Announces 2025 Annual Leave Exchange and Carryover MOUs
Postal Reform Act Is No Endorsement of Privatization
May 8, 2008
The passage of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act in December 2006 did not change the fundamental mission of the Postal Service, an APWU leader testified on Capitol Hill, and should not be perceived as justification for privatizing the...
Online Registration of Convention Delegates To Replace Paper Process
May 7, 2008
For the first time, APWU locals and state organizations will register delegates to the APWU National Convention online, through the union’s Web site, www.apwu.org. “This is another important step on the road to modernization,” said APWU Secretary-...
Court Upholds Unfair Labor Charge Against USPS
May 5, 2008
A federal appeals court has upheld an unfair labor practice charge against the Postal Service in a case involving a supervisor who threatened to retaliate against an employee who had filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)....
Ralph Fasanella: Self-Taught Artist Chronicled Workers’ Lives
April 30, 2008
By the time he started painting pictures at age 31, Ralph Fasanella had developed a strong disdain for the social and economic injustices he witnessed every day in the streets of New York City. Over the rest of his life, the self-taught artist...
It Takes Only One to Get the Grassroots Growing
April 29, 2008
John Windle
APWU member John Windle has been hard at work, boosting Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign as the important May 6 Indiana primary approaches.
Noting that his state has never been so crucial to a modern nomination battle, the...