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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.”
A Criminal Gets Off Easy
May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
You may have heard recently of the conviction of a criminal named Don Blankenship. He was sentenced to one year in prison.
I am one who believes our...
Contract Arbitration Gets Underway
May 1, 2016
Mark Barrett, Heather Stewart and Georgena Walker.
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Interest arbitration hearings for our new contract got underway in February and continued in March...
EAP Offers New Web-Based Therapy
May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Computerized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CCBT) is the newest addition to the bank of confidential Employees Assistance Program (EAP) services that are...
MVS Workers Drive the Message Home
May 1, 2016
MVS panel participants (top row): Michael McDonald,
Steven Dietz, William Drew (bottom row) Robert Stierle,
Virgil Fleming, Kevin Knapp and Robert Strickland.
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker ...
APWU Website 'De-Links' Local Websites During Union Election Period
May 1, 2016
The APWU national election period has begun, and in approximately five months, on Oct. 5, the counting of ballots will begin. Effective May 1, the national APWU website "de-linked" all local and state websites for the duration of the union election...