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APWU Launches National Ad; Warns of Price Hikes, Post Office Closures in Anti-Privatization Campaign
July 21, 2025
This week the American Postal workers Union (APWU) launched a national advertising campaign on to alert the public about proposed plans to privatize the public postal service. The ad called “Memo” highlights a document sent by Wells Fargo Equity...
APWU Arbitration Award Secures Grievance Rights for Separated Non-Probationary Employees
July 17, 2025
The APWU has secured a major victory for the rights of non-probationary employees who are discharged without just cause from the Postal Service to file grievances on those discharges and have them heard in arbitration, Industrial Relations Director...
Infrastructure, Voting Rights, Retirement Security: Our Fight Continues
May 7, 2021
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
After the American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law on March 11, we turned our sights to another key legislative package being eyed by the Biden...
Postal Banking Gaining Steam in Congress
May 7, 2021
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Members of Congress are making waves in the fight to win postal banking in the United States. As they did in the last Congress, Representatives Bill...
Labor News
May 7, 2021
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
1,300 Steelworkers on Strike Across Five States
On March 30, around 1,300 workers, represented by the United Steelworkers (USW), began a strike at nine...
APWU/USPS concluded ET- 11 Virtual LMOU Negotiations
May 3, 2021
The Maintenance Division recently concluded the negotiation for National Support Technicians Local Memorandum of Understanding on April 19, 2021, after several months of delays due to the COVID pandemic. The parties agreed to continue to explore...
Second Round of Payments for POStPlan Staffing
April 30, 2021
On April 26, 2021, the Postal Service informed the Clerk Craft that it had partially input the second round of payments required by the national-level award, dated June 17, 2017 authored by Arbitrator Stephen B. Goldberg in Case #Q10C-4Q-C-15206043...