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Reconciliation Legislation Passes - Attacks on Postal Pensions DEFEATED
July 3, 2025
On July 3, Trump's tax-and-spending reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed by narrow margins in the House and Senate, giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy paid for by the working class. While we successfully fought off the threats most...
Privatizers Lay Out Their Plan for Destroying Public Postal Service
June 30, 2025
On June 24, the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing titled, “The Route Forward for the U.S. Postal Service: A View from Stakeholders.”
USPS/APWU Reach Final Remedy Settlement on Major Clerk Craft Jobs MOU National Dispute
January 14, 2022
Clerk Division Director Lamont Brooks signed a settlement agreement to resolve the outstanding issue of the remedy in Case # Q10C-4Q-C 15174956. This issue remained pending based on the decision of Arbitrator Goldberg’s April 21, 2017 arbitration...
The Gift That Keeps on Giving...
January 14, 2022
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
One of the greatest gifts ever given to postal workers was not one delivered by Santa. It is our right to collective bargaining over our wages,...
Biden Administration Taps USPS and Postal Workers for Distribution of COVID Test Kits
January 13, 2022
The Biden Administration has announced a program to mail at-home COVID test kits to every household that requests them. These kits could be mailed to as many as 160 million addresses. APWU members will be critical to the success of the program.
URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Protect Voting Rights
January 12, 2022
Voting rights of the people are under attack and federal legislation is urgently needed to protect them. In order to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021, the filibuster rules must be changed. “We...
How to File an OWCP Claim When Diagnosed with COVID-19
January 10, 2022
If you are a postal employee, no matter if you are a career employee or non-career employee, you are entitled to file a claim with the Office of Workers Compensation Programs.