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APWU Releases Q&As about 2025 Voluntary Early Retirement

February 1, 2025
The Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) recently announced for eligible postal workers by the Postal Service has generated many questions from the members of the APWU. The Postal Service published a list of questions and answers for our members.

House Resolution 70: Protecting the People’s Post Office

January 30, 2025
Please call APWU’s Legislative Hotline at 1-844-402-1001 to be connected to your member of Congress today, and ask them to cosponsor H. Res. 70, which expressly opposes postal privatization. Defending the people’s public Postal Service from...

Are We Going to Let the Big Corporations Privatize Us?

January 16, 2019
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Vice President Debby Szeredy Let’s talk about the facts. Here I am, a union postal worker. What will happen if I don’t step up and help...

Not Surprising - USPS 2012 Cuts Do Not Create Projected Savings

January 16, 2019
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  The Office of Inspector General (OIG) Oct. 15 report proves what postal workers have been shouting for years – cuts to mail processing and...

Majority of Senate Members Oppose Postal Privatization

January 16, 2019
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  In Dec. 2018, Senate Resolution 633 (S. Res. 633) achieved a majority of co-sponsors. This resolution expressed the need to keep the United...

Task Force: No Fire Sale, But Privatization Threat Looms

January 16, 2019
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  The long-awaited report of President Trump’s Task Force on the future of the Postal Service was released Dec. 4, months after its original...

The Ostrich Syndrome

January 16, 2019
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By President Mark Dimondstein  “Bury your head in the sand” is a common saying based on the myth that when an ostrich senses danger, it buries...

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