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Don't Let Management Take Your Pulse!

July 8, 2024
The APWU is urging union members to refrain from participating in the USPS management’s Postal Pulse survey. Negotiations for a new union contract began June 25, and any information you give them can be used in retaliation to hurt us during...

Contract Negotiations Begin – APWU Negotiating Team Delivers Opening Day Remarks

June 27, 2024
On June 25, contract negotiations began for our next main collective bargaining agreement with the Postal Service. The current contract expires on Sept. 20. Both the union and postal management exchanged opening statements, outlining their...

New Maintenance Division Appointments

October 3, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Maintenance Division Director Idowu Balogun Filling Maintenance Vacancies — Part II This is Part II of an article started by our late...

USPS Utilizing Disgraced Former NLRB Commissioner

October 3, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson  The United States Postal Service is utilizing Terence F. Flynn, the disgraced former National Labor...

Resolutions Opposing Privatization of the Postal Service Introduced in Congress

October 2, 2018
On July 16, a leading group of Congressional representatives took action to help combat a proposal to privatize the Postal Service by introducing House Resolution 993. The privatization proposal, put forward by the White House’s Office of...

The National Convention Sets the Path for Current and Future APWU Struggles

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  Twenty-one hundred APWU members departed from the union’s 24th Biennial National Convention in August uplifted, united and ready to continue ...

Stand Up for Safe Jobs

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman  “It is the responsibility of management to provide safe working conditions in all present and...

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