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An Update on the Social Security Fairness Act

July 31, 2024
The APWU has never stopped fighting to pass the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82, S. 597). 

Preventing Hearing Loss at Work and Home

July 31, 2024
Hearing protection is especially important for APWU members given the diverse and noisy work environments we encounter. The Industrial Relations Department is committed to ensuring that we keep you informed about hearing hazards and the precautions...

The People Demand: Show Us The Text!

June 2, 2015
APWU Member Arrion Brown being barred from  reviewing the text of TPP Trade Deal. If you want to know what’s in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade bill, you can go to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and read it for yourself.  That...

Getting Ready for 2015 All-Craft Conference

June 2, 2015
Plans are underway for the All-Craft Conference, which will be held in Las Vegas, Oct. 12-14, 2015. For more information about the event and to register, click here. In accordance with the APWU Constitution and Bylaws, resolutions adopted by locals...

APWU, Sister Postal Unions Win Right to Bargain Over Cyber Intrusions

June 2, 2015
In a precedent-setting agreement approved by the National Labor Relations Board, the APWU and its sister postal unions won the right to bargain with the Postal Service over a massive data security breach that took place in 2014. The historic May 19...

Data Posted on Postmasters, Supervisors Performing Craft Work

June 1, 2015
A key feature of the Global Settlement Remedy Agreement, which was signed on Dec. 5, 2014, were provisions making it easier for union representatives to monitor when postmasters and supervisors perform bargaining unit work in excess of the hours...

Hocking Our Heritage – At a Discount

June 1, 2015
Murals depicting our nation's heritage grace the lobbies of many post offices. Here is Stagecouch, Overland Express and Riverboat Carrying U.S. Mail, by Valdimir Rousseff, which has been displayed in the Reedly, CA, Main Post Office since 1935.  (...

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