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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.
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...
Industrial Relations ZOOM Seminar: Emergency Federal Employee Leave (EFEL)
April 30, 2021
On April 29, 2021, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released their long-awaited guidance on EFEL.
The Industrial Relations Department will be conducting a ZOOM Seminar to discuss the guidance on Thursday, May 6, 2021. The Seminar is open to...
APWU Opposes Management Plans to Reinstitute Plant Consolidations and Closures.
April 27, 2021
On Tuesday April 27, 2021 postal management informed the APWU of management’s intent to pursue consolidations and operational mail moves in 18 facilities nationwide.