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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.”
Puerto Rico Governor Resigns Following Massive Protests
August 1, 2019
On Tuesday, July 23 an estimated 500,000 people filled the streets of Puerto Rico’s capital San Juan, demanding the immediate resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló. The protest was one of, if not the, largest demonstration in the Commonwealth of...
Postal Workers and Allies Flood Congress with Calls for “Postal Service Fairness”
July 25, 2019
Thousands of APWU members joined our nationwide phone action on Tuesday, July 23 to tell Congress to fix a bad law that has put our public Postal Service in jeopardy.
APWU Retirees Still Fighting for Justice
July 25, 2019
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The APWU Retirees Department is mourning the sudden loss of Elizabeth “Beth” Bobo (Cramer), Southern APWU Retiree Delegate to the National Convention...
Organizing with the APWU Health Plan
July 25, 2019
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
We have been engaged in an effort to assist our locals and states with organizing by using the APWU Health Plan as an organizing tool.
Our PSEs are...
Blue Water
July 25, 2019
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
In June, the Blue Water Veterans Act unanimously passed in the Senate. If signed by President Trump, the law will take effect at the start of 2020....