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Big News!! APWU, USPS Reach Tentative Agreement on New Union Contract!

June 6, 2025
The American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service have reached a tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), announced APWU President and Lead Negotiator Mark Dimondstein. The proposed union contract is three years in duration:...

House Passes Bill to Eliminate the FERS Supplemental “Bridge” Payment

May 22, 2025
The House just passed H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which eliminates the FERS supplemental bridge payment and funnels $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy. Our fight now moves to the Senate.

New Maintenance Division Appointments

October 3, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Maintenance Division Director Idowu Balogun Filling Maintenance Vacancies — Part II This is Part II of an article started by our late...

USPS Utilizing Disgraced Former NLRB Commissioner

October 3, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson  The United States Postal Service is utilizing Terence F. Flynn, the disgraced former National Labor...

Resolutions Opposing Privatization of the Postal Service Introduced in Congress

October 2, 2018
On July 16, a leading group of Congressional representatives took action to help combat a proposal to privatize the Postal Service by introducing House Resolution 993. The privatization proposal, put forward by the White House’s Office of...

The National Convention Sets the Path for Current and Future APWU Struggles

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  Twenty-one hundred APWU members departed from the union’s 24th Biennial National Convention in August uplifted, united and ready to continue ...

Stand Up for Safe Jobs

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman  “It is the responsibility of management to provide safe working conditions in all present and...

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