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USPS Board of Governors Elects New Leadership

January 16, 2025
The USPS Board of Governors elected governor Amber F. McReyolds as a new board chair at its fourth and final meeting of 2024, Now three vacancies exist upon the expiration of Anton Hajjar's term on December 8. 

Project 2025 Seeks to Undermine Public Services with Schedule F

January 16, 2025
The reinstatement of Trump’s 2020 “Schedule F” Executive Order may be on the horizon with Project 2025, reclassifying many civil servants into at-will employees without job protection. Organized labor must stand together and prepare to fight back:

Officers Installed Under the Theme "Continuing to Move Forward"

November 10, 2016
Newly elected APWU officers take their oath of office, administered by the Honorable Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. The new term started Nov. 12, 2016 and will end in November 2019. The American Postal Workers Union’s elected officers were...

Contractual Retroactive Payment in November 18th Paychecks

November 2, 2016
Retroactive Pay  The July 8, 2016 interest arbitration award established the terms for the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), ordering a retroactive pay increase effective Nov. 14, 2015. USPS started paying the new rates ordered by the...

‘Keep the Promise, Pass the Bill’

November 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Thousands of miners and their allies rallied outside the Capitol on Sept. 8. Thousands of miners and their allies – including the APWU –...

Postal Banking Hits Responsive Chord

November 1, 2016
Mehrsa Baradaran (This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)   Delegates to the APWU convention in August responded enthusiastically to the possibilities that postal banking holds, both...

Ask Me About A Grand Alliance!

November 1, 2016
Courtney Jenkins and Sherry McKnight (Baltimore Local), Nora Taggart and Kevin Walsh (New York Local). (This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) President Mark Dimondstein reported to...

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