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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...

The National Convention Sets the Path for Current and Future APWU Struggles

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  Twenty-one hundred APWU members departed from the union’s 24th Biennial National Convention in August uplifted, united and ready to continue ...

Stand Up for Safe Jobs

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman  “It is the responsibility of management to provide safe working conditions in all present and...

Local Union Elections

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell  It starts with the process for nominations. One of the ways to alleviate and hopefully prevent complaints,...

I Have a Dream, You Have a Dream, and Dr. King Had a Dream

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Vice President Debby Szeredy  My dream would be to help make APWU truly a movement of members fighting to save the USPS from privatization....

The Five Ds

October 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By President Mark Dimondstein  I was honored to have led the just concluded APWU’s 24th Biennial National Convention – the grand union meeting...

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