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17,000 AT&T Workers Strike Across Southeastern US

August 23, 2024
More than 17,000 AT&T workers across nine southeastern states walked off their jobs on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. The workers, represented by Communications Workers of America (CWA), filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge against AT&T...

Statement from APWU President Mark Dimondstein on the Postal Service’s Proposal to Further Slow Mail Processing and Delivery

August 23, 2024
The American Postal Workers Union is deeply concerned regarding the August 22nd announcement from postal management, with the support of the Postal Board of Governors, that they are once again planning to slow down much of the country’s mail. The...

Das 110 HCRs Noncompliance Award Issued

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In our continuing commitment to require postal management’s compliance with the August 2016 arbitration decision rendered by national arbitrator Shyam...

Negotiations with USPS and Private Sector

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Negotiating new and successor collective bargaining agreements during this COVID-19 period has proved to be very challenging. The Support Services...

Postal Workers Weathered the Storm

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The past 15 months has been challenging and stressful for postal workers. The COVID-19 pandemic spared no one, touching almost everyone in some way,...

Mail Processing Equipment Arbitration

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The Maintenance National Officers arbitrated a section of Electronic Work Hours Estimated Program (eWHEP) on May 18-19, before a newly selected...

Investing in Retail and the Customer Experience – Clerks Care

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In an effort to offer more postal products and services and increase revenue, the Clerk Division has held several meetings with the Postal Service...

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