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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.”
Helping a Loved One Overcome Addiction
Helping a loved one who is struggling with alcoholism, drug abuse, an eating disorder, or other destructive behavior can be challenging. Sometimes a direct, heart-to-heart conversation can lead to the road to recovery. But when it comes to addiction...
Premium Conversion Legislation for Retirees
On July 16 - more than three years after the legislation was first introduced - the House Civil Service and Agency Reorganization Subcommittee approved Rep. Tom Davis' (R-VA) bill to allow federal and military retirees to pay health care premiums...
The State of U.S. Unions
At the end of 2008, union members accounted for 12.4 percent of employed wage-and-salary workers, according to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of workers belonging to unions rose by 428,000 to 16.1 million; which was...
e-Team Report, Sept. 9, 2011
Sept. 27 Day of Action
President Guffey Testifies Before Senate Committee
Proposed Postal Service Layoffs Would Significantly Impact Minorities, Veterans
Governor Lynch’s Veto Sustained in New Hampshire / Ohio to Mail Absentee Ballot Applications...
Dispute Over Data Security Breaches/Missing USPS Laptops Appealed to Arbitration
The APWU has appealed to national-level arbitration a dispute over the Postal Service's security breaches of sensitive postal employee data resulting from missing or stolen postal laptop computers.