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House Resolution 70: Protecting the People’s Post Office
January 30, 2025
Please call APWU’s Legislative Hotline at 1-844-402-1001 to be connected to your member of Congress today, and ask them to cosponsor H. Res. 70, which expressly opposes postal privatization. Defending the people’s public Postal Service from...
This is a 'Code Red Alert' to APWU Veterans
January 21, 2025
In the last Home Front article, we warned veterans about “Project 2025” and how a second Trump term would destroy the VA, and VA healthcare benefits. Unfortunately for our APWU veteran family, his Project 2025 plan to destroy VA healthcare could...
Labor History Milestones
October 31, 2016
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
A letter carrier delivers a live baby, which became outlawed in 1916 when post office management set a weight limit on packages and barred the...
Contractual Retroactive Payment in November 18th Paychecks: Second Annual Wage Increase Coming Soon.
October 31, 2016
Retroactive Pay for Nov. 14, 2015 – Aug. 5, 2016
The interest arbitration award dated July 8, 2016 that established the terms for the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), ordered a retroactive pay increase effective Nov. 14, 2015. USPS...
APWU Organizing Victory!
October 28, 2016
Gloria Gonzalez (left) and her co-worker proudly display
their APWU membership cards.
The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is celebrating an organizing victory! Workers at the Mail Transport Equipment Service Center (MTESC) located in Urbandale...
Stop Staples Campaign Alive and Well in Massachusetts
October 24, 2016
Stop Staples activists held a rally in front of a bustling location in Revere, MA, just north of Boston, on Oct. 20.
On 15th Anniversary of Anthrax Attacks, Workers Recall Those Who Died
October 21, 2016
Fifteen years after their deaths from exposure to anthrax-laden mail, Joseph P. Curseen Jr. and Thomas L. Morris Jr. were remembered by their co-workers at a reflective and joyful ceremony on Oct. 21. A monument to the two APWU members was unveiled...