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Second Payment of $15 Million Settlement for Part-time Regular Workers Announced

June 22, 2025
Second Payment of $15 Million Settlement for Part-time Regular Workers Announced

Update: CDL Medical Certification Integration

June 18, 2025
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) adopted a rule change in 2015, along with many other components of this rule change, was the requirement that the Medical Examiner who performs a Commercial Driver Certification physical will...

Lessons of a $56 Million Settlement

November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) At the end of the summer, the clerk division announced the criteria for distributing the $56 million monetary portion of the settlement that...

Management’s New BEM Motto: Run to Failure!

November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The Postal Service has notified the APWU of management’s intent to move forward with proposed changes to the MS-1 Handbook, which identifies...

Support Grows for Labor Unions

November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) After years of declining strength and support, labor unions are regaining popularity. More than half of Americans – 58 percent – said they...

Workers Strike Against Anti-Union Governments

November 1, 2015
Finnish workers protesting. (This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Protesting their government’s right-wing, anti-union agenda, workers in India and Finland went on strike in...

Meeting the Training Challenge

November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The APWU has 875 chartered local and state unions in the U.S., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam, and each one of them has officers who...

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