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Big News!! APWU, USPS Reach Tentative Agreement on New Union Contract!
June 6, 2025
The American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service have reached a tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), announced APWU President and Lead Negotiator Mark Dimondstein. The proposed union contract is three years in duration:...
House Passes Bill to Eliminate the FERS Supplemental “Bridge” Payment
May 22, 2025
The House just passed H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which eliminates the FERS supplemental bridge payment and funnels $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy. Our fight now moves to the Senate.
National Staffing Advocate Training: DC
July 13, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Washington DC: In an effort to continue providing local and state unions with maintenance craft staffing assistance, the APWU once again held formal...
MVS Update
July 13, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The Craft had a National Arbitration hearing on May 23-24 to determine if the USPS violated Section 2 of the 2010 Contract Motor Vehicle Craft Jobs...
Legislative Priorities and the Fight Ahead!
July 13, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Service Standards/Appropriations
Returning USPS to its 2012 Service Standards remains a top priority of the APWU. In the 117th Congress, both the...
Don't Stop Building Union Power!
July 13, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
As I write this article, we have just hit the target of recruiting 5,000 new members for our Building Union Power organizing drive. I want to thank...
The PSRA and Postal Retirees
July 12, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
This time of the year we recognize the anniversary of Medicare, signed into law in July 1965 and Social Security, created in August 1935.
We...