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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.
Keep Calling Congress to Oppose Cuts to Postal and Federal Pensions
May 19, 2025
In the late night hours of Sunday, May 18, 2025, the House Budget Committee voted by a margin of 17-16 to advance a bill that would give $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy on the backs of the working class. Just two days prior, the same...
Starting Strong, Looking Ahead
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Happy New Year! It was a great way to end last year when 250 non-supervisory postal workers at the Human Resource Shared Services Center in NC...
"The People's Postal Service: No One Gets Left Off the List" Holiday Ad
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
John R. Smith, First Retirees Director, Passes Away
January 16, 2020
John R. Smith, former Retirees Department Director, passed away Jan. 11, at the age of 91. Brother Smith (known by most as “JR”) was the first ever director of the Retirees Department. At the time of his retirement from the APWU on May 7, 2005,...
Over 400,000 People Demand a Postmaster General Who Supports the Public Postal Service
January 9, 2020
On Jan. 6, APWU national officers, fellow union members, organizers and activists, many from organizations in A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service (Grand Alliance), gathered at USPS Headquarters to demand the Postal Board of Governors...
Deadly Earthquakes Strike Puerto Rico
January 8, 2020
A string of earthquakes recently struck Puerto Rico. The largest, a 6.4 magnitude lethal quake, hit early Tuesday morning (around 4AM) causing massive power outages, water, and structural damage to homes, roads, businesses, bridges and of post...