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Sixth COLA Increase Announced

August 14, 2024
In accordance with the 2021-2024 Collective Bar­gaining Agreement, career employees represented by the APWU will receive a $0.47 per hour cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), effective September 7, 2024.

Applications for the APWU Leadership Institute Class Two Open Until September 13, 2024

August 13, 2024
Applications for the APWU Leadership Institute Class Two Open Until September 13, 2024

Workers Memorial Day

April 18, 2007
On April 28 each year, the labor movement observes Workers Memorial Day to commemorate workers who have been killed or injured on the job, and to renew the fight for safety-and-health protections. This year’s theme is Good Jobs, Safe Jobs. It’s Time...

Bloomington, Two Upstate New York AMPs Halted; Bronx Study in Limbo

April 13, 2007
The APWU received notice recently that consolidations of mail-processing operations in Watertown and Binghamton, NY, and Bloomington, IN, no longer are being considered, and that the Area Mail Processing study in the Bronx may be on hold. “After...

IT/ASC Workers Ratify 4-Year Contract

April 9, 2007
APWU members have ratified a four-year contract covering more than 1,200 employees at Postal Service IT/ASC facilities.

Equal Pay Day Arrives April 24

April 4, 2007
On Tuesday, April 24, 2007, working women across the country will mark Equal Pay Day — the day when women’s wages will finally catch up to what men earned in 2006. “Women have come a long way, but are still waiting for equal pay,” said Dr. Heidi...

Employee Free Choice Act Introduced in Senate

March 30, 2007
One of the most important labor law reform measures in decades was introduced in the U.S. Senate March 29 — legislation that would give American workers greater freedom to make their own choices about joining unions and bargaining for better wages,...

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