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Reconciliation Legislation Passes - Attacks on Postal Pensions DEFEATED
July 3, 2025
On July 3, Trump's tax-and-spending reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed by narrow margins in the House and Senate, giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy paid for by the working class. While we successfully fought off the threats most...
Privatizers Lay Out Their Plan for Destroying Public Postal Service
June 30, 2025
On June 24, the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing titled, “The Route Forward for the U.S. Postal Service: A View from Stakeholders.”
Rallying to Restore Voting Rights Act
November 1, 2015
The APWU had a strong showing at the rally to restore the Voting Rights Act.
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
The APWU joined the NAACP, Democracy Initiative, and other labor...
Spreading the Word on the Street
November 1, 2015
Des Moines Area Local steward Julie Kestel
with daughter Mackenzie on a float in the city’s Labor Day Parade.
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
APWU members have been out and...
Workers Comp Fraud Investigations
November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Special agents of the Postal Service Office of the Inspector General (OIG) are contracted to “safeguard postal revenue” and are supposed to “...
A Century Later, Labor’s Legendary Troubadour Lives On
October 31, 2015
Joe Hill
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
One hundred years have passed since a firing squad at the Utah State Penitentiary executed Joe Hill at sunrise on Nov. 19, 1915. The...
Budget Deal Protecting Social Security and Medicare Beneficiaries Passes U.S. House
October 30, 2015
Congressional leaders and the White House announced on Monday that they had reached a deal to avert default and keep the government funded. Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner helped arrange the deal, which also cleared the way for new Speaker ...