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APWU Takes on Wall Street and Postal Privatizers

July 24, 2025
On July 24, hundreds of postal workers, labor allies, and members of the community took to the streets of New York City in a high-spirited rally to tell Wall Street bankers, billionaires, and anyone who wants to privatize our postal service that “...

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...

New Benefits Secured for Postal Support Employees (PSEs)

July 26, 2018
In the 2010 Collective Bargaining Agreement between the APWU and the US Postal Service, the parties established a “Workforce Benefits, Employment Opportunities, Training and Education Fund.”  The purpose of the fund was to provide for the Postal...

Postal Banking is Successful Around the World - Could It Work Here?

July 24, 2018
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) Postal services across the world provide tried and tested and successful models for postal banking, or the provision of financial services via the...

A Bold Vision for the U.S. Postal Service

July 24, 2018
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)  Speaking out for better, expanded postal services at A Grand Alliance field hearing in Baltimore, MD, March 2016. What if, instead of reducing hours...

Postal Support Employees Deserve Better

July 24, 2018
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)  By Health Plan Director John Marcotte The USPS continues to fall short in its obligation to provide Postal Support Employees (PSEs) health insurance...

From the Field

July 24, 2018
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)  Below are quotes from various APWU local and state publications throughout the country. All the publications listed are part of the Postal Press...

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