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Looking Back: Black Workers Organize ‘Revolutionary Union Movement’

May 19, 2025
This month in Labor History, we look back at the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement of 1968 -  when over 4,000 Black workers who were fed up with racist policies organized a two-day strike at Chrysler’s Hamtracmck plant to demand improvements for...

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.

Postmaster General to Retire, Postal Board of Governors to Appoint Successor

November 19, 2019
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) 

Arbitration Hearings and Testimony Conclude

November 18, 2019
The American Postal Workers Union and United States Postal Service management conducted a final three-day session of interest arbitration Nov. 13-15. The week’s proceedings saw the conclusion of evidence submission and witness testimony in the...

Message from the President: Final Arbitration Hearings

November 15, 2019
President Dimondstein's fifth update on the interest arbitration hearings for our new union contract. We just completed three more days of hearings which ended November 15th. The hearings are now completed and the panel will begin their...

Interest Arbitration: APWU Presents Final Witness Testimony With Clerk and Custodial Evidence

November 14, 2019
Today at Interest Arbitration, APWU presented evidence from the Clerk and Maintenance Craft Divisions.

Interest Arbitration: APWU rebuts management’s economics and MVS proposals

November 13, 2019
Today at Interest Arbitration, the APWU rebutted some of management’s economic arguments, including their controversial claim that postal workers are overpaid for the skills they employ. We also responded the management’s regressive proposals for...

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