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Big News!! APWU, USPS Reach Tentative Agreement on New Union Contract!

June 6, 2025
The American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service have reached a tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), announced APWU President and Lead Negotiator Mark Dimondstein. The proposed union contract is three years in duration:...

House Passes Bill to Eliminate the FERS Supplemental “Bridge” Payment

May 22, 2025
The House just passed H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which eliminates the FERS supplemental bridge payment and funnels $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy. Our fight now moves to the Senate.

Members in Action

January 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  (L-R) Virgin Islands Area Local President Becky B-Simmonds and clerk Mary Meyers who works at the general post office on St. Thomas APWU Donates...

A Grand Alliance Takes on New York City Postal Cuts

January 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  For too many years, in response to pressure from Congress, the Postal Service has slowed mail service, closed community-based post offices and...

Protests Against Job, Service Cuts Continue

January 1, 2018
Members of the Des Moines Area Local and the  Des Moines BMC Local picket in front of the downtown P&DC. (This article first appeared in the January-February 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  APWU members from coast-to-coast...

Happy Holidays!

December 22, 2017

Unpopular Tax Bill Passes

December 22, 2017
On Wednesday Dec. 20, Congress voted to pass a tax bill designed to reward the super wealthy and major corporations with more money. Despite being an unpopular bill opposed by hard-working families across the country, it passed without any...

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