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Contract Negotiations (Support Services)
July 30, 2024
The Support Services Division will participate in several different sets of contract negotiations throughout the summer and fall. Each round of negotiations is an opportunity to improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for our APWU sisters...
Focused on Negotiations
July 30, 2024
As this edition of The American Postal Worker arrives, the 2024 APWU/USPS Contract Negotiations will be underway. The Collective Bargaining Agreement expires Sept. 20, 2024, with the Opening Day of negotiations on June 25, 2024. We, as always, will...
Staples Deal Still a Secret — But Hearing Reveals Disturbing Truths
April 7, 2014
The Postal Service and Staples are working overtime to keep the details of their sweetheart deal a secret, but a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board — and documents the USPS was forced to provide to the APWU — have revealed some...
New Organizing Toolkit Available
April 3, 2014
A new organizing toolkit is now available, Organization Department Director Anna Smith has announced. The new kit includes a Welcome Book [PDF], a brochure specially designed for PSEs [PDF], a new union sign-up form [PDF], and a host of other...
PSEs Should Beware of 'Voice of Employee' Surveys
April 3, 2014
Postal Support Employees should beware of management's latest ploy, union leaders are warning: Beginning in April, the Postal Service plans to ask non-career employees to take Voice of the Employee (VOE) surveys.
Based on a Falsehood, Ryan Budget Would Plunder Postal Service
April 1, 2014
The postal provisions in the budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on April 1 are a “thinly-veiled attempt to plunder the Postal Service — to slash service, cut workers’ benefits, and render our great national treasure ripe for privatization,”...
Tentative Agreement Reached on Nurses’ Contract
April 1, 2014
The APWU has reached a Tentative Agreement with the USPS on a Collective Bargaining Agreement covering postal nurses.