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How to Receive One-Time Retirement Incentive Checks
April 29, 2025
The incentive checks will be sent to the employee’s office of last appointment. From there, the retiree can pick it up from the office or it will be mailed from the office to the address indicated on the PS 3077 -Request to Forward Salary Check form...
Celebrating May Day 2025 - International Workers' Day
April 29, 2025
May Day, the annual holiday recognizing the international working class, will be celebrated around the world on May 1. We encourage APWU members to join our labor allies across the country at one of the many May Day events happening to combat the...
USPS Releases New List Of Stations Targeted for Closure
September 3, 2009
The Postal Service announced Sept. 2 that it has reduced to 413 the number of stations and branches currently under consideration for closure.
Union Refutes Wall Street Journal Editorial
September 2, 2009
It came as no surprise that a Wall Street Journal editorial outlining the Postal Service’s financial difficulties concluded that the USPS should be privatized, but since the column was riddled with inaccuracies, APWU President William Burrus fired...
Members Asked to Support ‘Union Label Week’
September 1, 2009
“Union Label Week” will be observed from Monday Sept. 7 through Saturday Sept. 12.

Studs Terkel: The Voice of Work and the American Worker
August 31, 2009
Late last year, the city of Chicago — and working people everywhere — lost a great voice when Louis “Studs” Terkel died at age 96.
For more than 70 years, the radio and TV host and prolific author chronicled the aspirations of working people in...
APWU Rebuts Myths About the US Postal Service
August 31, 2009
News articles often imply that USPS financial problems are irreversible, and that “hard-copy mail is destined to be replaced by electronic messages.”