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The Mail is Not for Sale!

January 8, 2025
The fast and furious online reaction to The [Washington] Post’s Dec. 19 editorial underscores how strongly the people support and trust the U.S. Postal Service.

Clerk Division Fills Two Vacant NBA Positions

January 7, 2025
Recently, two National Business Agent (NBA) positions became vacant in the Clerk Division. Robert “Bob” Romanowski left his NBA job in the Philadelphia Region when he was promoted to the newly established Assistant Director “C”, Clerk Division...

Celebrate: '100 Years of Progress'

August 15, 2006
Chester Parrish, left, and President William Burrus cut into the ceremonial cake. It would not have been much of a birthday without a cake, so the American Postal Workers Union kicked off its 18th Biennial National Convention with a salute to a...

Union Launches Ad Campaign to Combat Consolidation

July 26, 2006
Thirty-second television ads outline the negative effects of consolidation on mail service. The APWU is taking its grassroots campaign against USPS “network realignment” to a new level by airing radio and television ads that warn of week-long delays...

Union President Condemns USPS Plans to Privatize AMCs

July 10, 2006
APWU President William Burrus has denounced Postal Service plans to subcontract work currently performed by bargaining unit employees at more than half of the nation’s Air Mail Centers. “This ill-advised adventure would privatize an important and...

John L. Lewis: A Giant Among Labor Leaders

June 30, 2006
A dominant figure in labor history, John L. Lewis was the founding force behind several national unions and a leader of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) for more than 40 years. In aiding the union struggle for better wages and benefits, he...

Joe Hill: Labor’s Legendary Troubadour

April 30, 2006
At sunrise on Nov. 19, 1915, a firing squad at the Utah State Penitentiary executed a labor activist who many people believed had been falsely convicted of murder. Nearly a century later, the legend of “Joe Hill” is frequently invoked in the ongoing...

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