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APWU Releases Q&As about 2025 Voluntary Early Retirement

February 1, 2025
The Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) recently announced for eligible postal workers by the Postal Service has generated many questions from the members of the APWU. The Postal Service published a list of questions and answers for our members.

House Resolution 70: Protecting the People’s Post Office

January 30, 2025
Please call APWU’s Legislative Hotline at 1-844-402-1001 to be connected to your member of Congress today, and ask them to cosponsor H. Res. 70, which expressly opposes postal privatization. Defending the people’s public Postal Service from...

Solidarity Works! United Worker Actions Mean We Prevail

April 1, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  Working people across the country continue to build on past organizing successes to beat back government actions that threaten our jobs and our...

Solidarity

April 1, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By President Mark Dimondstein  Our labor anthem is “Solidarity Forever.” I sign letters “in union solidarity.” But what is solidarity? The dictionary...

Postal Employees and Retirees See Threats to Pay and Benefits in White House Budget

March 29, 2019
The White House released its plans for the fiscal year 2020 budget this month. It once again attacks workers, calling for deep cuts to salaries, retirement and health benefits. It also echoes parts of the Postal Task Force December 2018 report that...

The Great Mail Strike - March 18-25, 1970

March 25, 2019
Today, we remember when, in 1970, postal workers hit the streets and won the right to collectively bargain for wages and benefits. #1U  

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