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APWU Announces Day of Action to Defend the Public Postal Service

March 6, 2025
On March 20, postal workers and allies across the country will take to the streets to stand together and say Hands Off Our Public Postal Service

NY TIMES: As Trump Eyes the Postal Service, Concerns Grow Over Its Independence

March 6, 2025
President Trump’s attempt to exert more control over the U.S. Postal Service has fueled concerns that those efforts could hurt the agency’s ability to reliably deliver mail to all corners of the country, a mandate that is core to its mission.

Seniors Increasingly Struggle to Pay Back Educational Loans

September 12, 2014
Watsonville, California resident Rosemary Anderson testified in Washington on Wednesday before the Senate Aging Committee’s hearing on older Americans and student loan debt. “Some may think of student loan debt as just a young person's problem,"...

PMG ‘Wanted’ in Salt Lake City

September 11, 2014
If Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe thought his speech to a group of business mailers in Salt Lake City on Sept. 10 was going to be a quiet, uneventful affair, he was mistaken. A coalition of unions and postal customers showed up outside the Grand...

The PMG’s Trumpeted Attack – Forewarned is Forearmed

September 11, 2014
The Postmaster General’s Federal Register announcement makes management’s intent to impose more consolidations and cuts crystal clear. Even if we succeed in our legislative efforts, the USPS Board of Governors will plow ahead with their strategic...

We Don’t Always See Eye-to-Eye, But We Always Remain United

September 11, 2014
By now the 22nd Biennial National Convention is a thing of the past, but just in case you missed it, let us recap. Just prior to the start of the convention, a committee of MVS members reviewed resolutions submitted by local and state unions...

At the Top of Their Game

September 11, 2014
Snce January, the APWU has signed up more than 6,300 new members. The commitment to organizing is growing, but we still have a long road ahead. Although excessing, downsizing and consolidations have hurt membership, some locals have maintained or...

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