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USPS Board of Governors Elects New Leadership

January 16, 2025
The USPS Board of Governors elected governor Amber F. McReyolds as a new board chair at its fourth and final meeting of 2024, Now three vacancies exist upon the expiration of Anton Hajjar's term on December 8. 

Project 2025 Seeks to Undermine Public Services with Schedule F

January 16, 2025
The reinstatement of Trump’s 2020 “Schedule F” Executive Order may be on the horizon with Project 2025, reclassifying many civil servants into at-will employees without job protection. Organized labor must stand together and prepare to fight back:

APWU Lends a Hand to Letter Carriers’ Food Drive

July 1, 2015
APWU members in Upland, CA, with bags of collected food. (This article first appeared in the July-August 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The National Association of Letter Carriers’ 23rd Annual Food Drive was held on May 9. Every...

Ralph Nader Dedicates Book to Postal Workers

July 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Consumer advocate Ralph Nader’s most recent book honors postal workers. Return to Sender: Unanswered Letters to the President, 2001-2015, which...

House Panel Approves Amendment To Restore Postal Service Standards

June 30, 2015
The vote by a House Committee on June 17 approving an amendment that would restore postal service standards “is a big step forward for postal workers and our customers,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein.  “If enacted, it will mean that...

APWU Takes PRC to Court Over Refusal to Enforce Service Standards

June 29, 2015
The APWU has taken the Postal Regulatory Commission to court, challenging the commission’s decision to dismiss its complaint that the Postal Service is failing to meet service standards. The union filed the Petition for Review on May 29 in the...

APWU Participates in Rally for Voting Rights

June 29, 2015
Arrion Brown, Nations Capital Southern Maryland Area Local, and Courtney Jenkins, Baltimore Francis Stu Filbey Area Local, gearing up to fight for Voting Rights.  Two young union activists, Courtney Jenkins and Arrion Brown, represented the...

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