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Reconciliation Legislation Passes - Attacks on Postal Pensions DEFEATED

July 3, 2025
On July 3, Trump's tax-and-spending reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed by narrow margins in the House and Senate, giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy paid for by the working class. While we successfully fought off the threats most...

Privatizers Lay Out Their Plan for Destroying Public Postal Service

June 30, 2025
On June 24, the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing titled, “The Route Forward for the U.S. Postal Service: A View from Stakeholders.”

National Negotiations, Grievance Settlements

May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) At the interest arbitration hearing for a new contract in february, the Clerk Craft presented two panels of workers who explained their job...

Addressing Veterans' Unemployment

May 1, 2016
Left Center Sue Carney, APWU Human Relations Director; Center Michael Michaud, Assistant Secretary DOL VETS, Center right, Will Fischer, Executive Director, Union Veterans Council, AFL-CIO (This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of ...

PSEs’ Hardships and Indignities

May 1, 2016
Nations’ Capital/Southern Maryland Area Local President Dena Briscoe, Lakeram Singh, Donica Collie, President Mark Dimondstein, Richard Ogoh, and Jody Harper. Nine Postal Support Employees presented emotional testimony on March 10 before a panel of...

A Technological Advance: Bid Tracking System Helps Locals Protect Jobs

May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The industrial relations department launched the bid tracking System (BTS), which helps local unions ensure that jobs are filled, on March 9, 2016.

Facing Repression, Salvadoran Workers Fight Privatization

May 1, 2016
Salvadoran workers carry a banner that says, "Thanks to the Working Class" in a 2013 May Day demonstration.  Faced with a relentless push to privatize their jobs, port and airport workers in El Salvador have been fighting back and building...

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