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APWU National Executive Board Endorses Vice President Kamala Harris for the Next President of the United States

July 23, 2024
On July 23, 2024, the APWU National Executive Board voted unanimously to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the next President of the United States. One day earlier, the AFL-CIO Executive Council, where the APWU is represented by  President...

Postal Workers Deserve a Great Contract!

July 23, 2024
Below is an excerpt from my address at the opening of national negotiations. The [APWU] welcomes this opportunity to represent approximately 200,000 postal workers in these important negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between our...

Janus v. AFSCME Q&A

May 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)  During the last few months, there has been a lot of discussion in the news about the Janus Supreme Court case and how it will affect public employees,...

Vote for 'Issues that Can Unite Us' on Election Day

May 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)  By Legislative & Political Director Judy Beard  The AFL-CIO Convention last October called for a break with the politics of the “lesser of two evils...

Letters

May 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)  Feb. 18, 2018 Dear Editor Mark Dimondstein, My name is Susan Nichols and I am sending you this [letter and photograph below] on behalf of the group of...

Marching in Memphis: 50 Years Later

May 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)  To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., union activists and...

Labor News

May 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)  Portuguese Postal Workers Hold One-Day Strike Over 4,000 Walk Out to Demand Reversal of Privatization Over 4,000 Portuguese postal workers held a one-...

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