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Looking Back: Black Workers Organize ‘Revolutionary Union Movement’

May 19, 2025
This month in Labor History, we look back at the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement of 1968 -  when over 4,000 Black workers who were fed up with racist policies organized a two-day strike at Chrysler’s Hamtracmck plant to demand improvements for...

Welcome and Gratitude

May 19, 2025
Health Plan Director Sarah J. Rodriguez expresses gratitude for members’ support of the APWU Health Plan, sharing excellent satisfactory rankings in payment accuracy, financial accuracy, and administrative accuracy.

Paul Ryan’s April Fools’ Day Budget Would Cut Medicare Dramatically

On Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released another Republican budget proposal - this one for the 2015 fiscal year - that would slash programs that benefit seniors in order to cut taxes for corporations and high income...

USPS Unleashes NRP (Phases 1 & 2)

In mid-December, the APWU was notified that Phase 1 of the National Reassessment Process had been implemented nationwide. The Postal Service estimates that 33,707 limited duty and rehabilitation employees will be reassessed under “NRP,” which was...

APWU Vows to Stop the Great Postal Giveaway

(This article appears in the January-February 2014 edition of The American Postal Worker.)  In a deal that has been in the works at least since March 2012, the USPS announced in November that it was launching a pilot program to place postal retail...

Postal Reform – At the 11th Hour

With the expiration of a moratorium on the consolidation and closure of mail processing plants and post offices approaching, there has been a tremendous amount of activity about postal legislation on Capitol Hill — and a tremendous amount of...

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