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How to Receive One-Time Retirement Incentive Checks

April 29, 2025
The incentive checks will be sent to the employee’s office of last appointment. From there, the retiree can pick it up from the office or it will be mailed from the office to the address indicated on the PS 3077 -Request to Forward Salary Check form...

Celebrating May Day 2025 - International Workers' Day

April 29, 2025
May Day, the annual holiday recognizing the international working class, will be celebrated around the world on May 1. We encourage APWU members to join our labor allies across the country at one of the many May Day events happening to combat the...

Two Consolidation Studies Scrapped

January 18, 2007
The U.S. Postal Service announced in early January that it was calling off the only Area Mail Processing studies in the states of Montana and North Carolina.  In a written statement on Jan. 5, the Postal Service said that it had dropped plans to...

Membership Ratifies Four-Year Contract

January 12, 2007
Rank-and-File Advisory Bargaining Committee members Thomasine Derricks, Princella Vogel, and Jack Dougherty observe the vote count in Washington on Jan. 12. Vogel chairs the committee. APWU members ratified a four-year Collective Bargaining...

APWU Files Suit on Jurisdictional Disputes

January 5, 2007
The APWU has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, charging that the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and U.S. Postal Service have violated a national-level three-party agreement that establishes procedures for resolving disputes over work...

Contract Ratification Balloting Extended to Jan. 12

January 5, 2007
Balloting in the ratification of the tentative agreement will be extended until Jan. 12, the Rank-and-File Bargaining Committee has announced. “We want to ensure that every interested APWU member has an opportunity to participate,” said Princella...

Frederick Douglass: Activist, Orator, Publisher, Statesman

December 31, 2006
Unquestionably, the single greatest leap forward in the quest for social and economic justice is the abolition of slavery. In the United States, after decades of struggle and a bloody civil war, slavery was formally abolished in 1865. Today, while...

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