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Reconciliation Legislation Passes - Attacks on Postal Pensions DEFEATED

July 3, 2025
On July 3, Trump's tax-and-spending reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed by narrow margins in the House and Senate, giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy paid for by the working class. While we successfully fought off the threats most...

Privatizers Lay Out Their Plan for Destroying Public Postal Service

June 30, 2025
On June 24, the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing titled, “The Route Forward for the U.S. Postal Service: A View from Stakeholders.”

Thousands Protest Secret Trade Deals

July 8, 2016
Thousands protest secret trade deals in Hannover, Germany. (This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Approximately 30,000 protestors took to the streets of Hannover, Germany, in late April to...

Rewriting the Rules of the Rigged Economy

July 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) The average U.S. family paid $2,050 to bail out Wall Street after the economy crashed in 2008 and lost nearly $5,800 in income due to reduced economic...

Verizon Strikers Win Major Victories

July 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Walking the picket line in Washington, D.C. With their heads held high, more than 40,000 Verizon workers from Maine to Virginia returned to work in June,...

AGA Brings Postal Issues to the Public

July 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) John Seibel, an elections expert and president of True Ballot, testifies at the Baltimore Field Hearing. One concrete way that A Grand Alliance to Save Our...

Union Challenges New CDL Rules

July 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) The APWU is challenging recent management changes to physical testing and licensing procedures for Commercial Drivers Licenses (CDLs) on a number of...

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