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Ballot Placement Set for APWU Election of National Officers
June 27, 2025
A drawing was held on June 27 to determine the order candidates’ names will appear on the ballot.
Second Payment of $15 Million Settlement for Part-time Regular Workers Announced
June 22, 2025
The second payment of the Part-time Regular settlement is now being processed and payments will begin in July.
Young Workers Summit Makes a Splash in Chicago
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
More than a thousand young unionists, activists and organizers convened in Chicago from March 19-22 for the Next Up: Young Workers Summit, sponsored by...
USW Strikers Get a Contract
May 1, 2015
Stop Staples supporters join the USW
on the picket line.
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
After a six-week strike, the United Steel Workers Union and Shell Oil agreed on a new national...
NYC Zara Workers Get a Raise
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
After months of protest and pressure from a workers campaign, Zara clothing retail workers in New York City received a raise.
In a letter to employees,...
Postal Clerk Remembers Bloody Sunday
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Distribution Clerk George James was just 15 when he tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965.
He says he had no idea history would be...
May Day: Fighting for the Eight-Hour Day
April 30, 2015
Chicago in the 1880s was a hotbed of labor organizing.
Fed up with the status quo, where industrial workers toiled long hours in squalid conditions, the International Working People’s Association formed in 1883 and dedicated its resources to...