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APWU Launches National Ad; Warns of Price Hikes, Post Office Closures in Anti-Privatization Campaign
July 21, 2025
This week the American Postal workers Union (APWU) launched a national advertising campaign on to alert the public about proposed plans to privatize the public postal service. The ad called “Memo” highlights a document sent by Wells Fargo Equity...
APWU Arbitration Award Secures Grievance Rights for Separated Non-Probationary Employees
July 17, 2025
The APWU has secured a major victory for the rights of non-probationary employees who are discharged without just cause from the Postal Service to file grievances on those discharges and have them heard in arbitration, Industrial Relations Director...
APWU Members, Supporters Ramp Up Stop Staples Campaign
May 1, 2014
APWU members were exuberant after staging 56 Stop Staples protests in 27 states on April 24 – and momentum is building.
Carrying signs and chanting, “The U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale,” participants got the message across. The protests received...
Understanding the Media
May 1, 2014
A January editorial in the “Colorado Springs Gazette” about the union’s campaign against the USPS deal with Staples begins with this: “Lingering on life support, the last thing the Postal Service needs is suffocating interference from an antiquated...
Ludlow Massacre Forges Mine Workers’ Struggle
April 30, 2014
Life was not easy a century ago for coal miners in Southern Colorado, where heavily industrialized mines produced high-grade coal needed by the steel and railway industries.
The largest mining operation in the region, the Colorado Fuel and Iron...
APWU’s Redesigned Website to Launch Friday
April 30, 2014
The APWU is pleased to announce the launch of our redesigned website, www.apwu.org, which will begin on Friday, May 2. We invite you to explore the new site and share your feedback with us.
House Delegation Urges PMG to Reject Deal; Teachers Vote to Boycott Staples
April 30, 2014
California opponents of the USPS deal with Staples delivered two stunning blows to the program yesterday: Thirty members of the U.S. House of Representatives from California called on Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe to reject the program, and...