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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...
Medicare and You
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Medicare is health insurance for people 65 and older, people under 65 with certain disabilities, and people of any age with End-Stage Renal...
What's Up Doc?
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Postal employees who are injured on the job have the right to select their treating physician. Under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (...
Dealing with Difficult People
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
As postal employees, we are required to interact with co-workers, customers, supervisors and managers. We sometimes feel overwhelmed. To avoid...
Blue Water, Public Law 116-23 in Effect
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The Blue Water Navy (BWN) Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019, signed into law on June 25, 2019 went into effect on Jan. 1, 2020. The law presumes...
Is There a Union Meeting — Who cares?
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Far too many local unions are not able to secure a quorum in order to carry out the functions of their membership meetings and fully represent...