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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...

Keep the U.S. Postal Service Public!

September 15, 2016
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) From Baltimore, New York, and San Jose to Cleveland and Greensboro, community leaders, activists and postal customers came together at field...

Vote in APWU Election of National Union Officers

September 15, 2016
Ballots for the American Postal Workers Union’s 2016 election of national officers were mailed to all eligible APWU members Sept. 10-15. To be counted, the ballots must be returned to and received in the designated post office box by 2 p.m. (EDT) on...

APWU Forms National Young Members Committee

September 15, 2016
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) A young, energized, fighting spirit has gripped the APWU. And to build on the momentum, delegates to the union’s 23rd National Convention...

Convention Endorses Hillary Clinton

September 15, 2016
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) Delegates to the APWU 2016 national convention, representing a broad cross-section of the union’s membership, voted overwhelmingly to endorse...

'A New Spirit of Activism'

September 14, 2016
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) Twenty-one hundred APWU members departed from the union’s 23rd National Convention in August uplifted, united and ready for the battles ahead.  

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