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Don't Let Management Take Your Pulse!

July 8, 2024
The APWU is urging union members to refrain from participating in the USPS management’s Postal Pulse survey. Negotiations for a new union contract began June 25, and any information you give them can be used in retaliation to hurt us during...

Contract Negotiations Begin – APWU Negotiating Team Delivers Opening Day Remarks

June 27, 2024
On June 25, contract negotiations began for our next main collective bargaining agreement with the Postal Service. The current contract expires on Sept. 20. Both the union and postal management exchanged opening statements, outlining their...

Ensuring Financial Stability

A sufficient amount of money in savings accounts can protect you from unexpected financial hardships, such as those associated with illness or divorce. Financial advisors recommend that everyone have at least three months’ salary in the bank for...

Article 1.6.B Merit Award

A national-level award by Arbitrator Das on the issue of "whether consistent with the exception in Article 1.6.B of the National Agreement ... a supervisor at a small post office, whose position description includes the performance of bargaining...

e-Team Report, Nov. 2, 2013

With so much at stake, the time for workers to VOTE is now! Congressman Calls USPS Plan to Cut its Way Back to Financial Health Unworkable Supreme Court to Hear Cases that Could Devastate Unions Senate Republicans Block Nominee to Important Federal...

Leave Buy Back: National-Level Dispute with the Postal Service

In 2001 the APWU learned that the Postal Service had instructed its Injury Compensation Specialists to inform employees who suffered on-the-job injuries that “if leave is used after a claim is accepted by the Department of Labor, OWCP, that leave...

e-Team Report, July 30, 2012

Voting Rights Watch Orzag Says Privatize Lame Duck Session

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