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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.
The End of the Fiscal Year and Custodial Hours
September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
We are quite likely still heading for Interest Arbitration for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. And while that is the top priority for...
Negotiations and the Power in a Union
September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without...
HCR Disputes, Renewals and Subcontracting
September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
On June 25, 2015, the APWU won another round in our fight against subcontracting when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) denied a motion...
'Big Bill' Haywood: The 'Wobbly' Giant
August 31, 2015
“Big Bill” Haywood was a big man with a big heart and a big dream – to build one big union for workers from every industry. He could break a man’s jaw with a single blow, but he wept openly when a poem moved him.
“Big Bill” was born William Dudley...
Clerk Officers Outline Criteria for Disbursement of $56 Million Payout for ‘Global Settlement’ of Violations of Article 1.6.B
August 31, 2015
In a conference call with local and state presidents, the APWU’s Clerk Division officers outlined the criteria for distributing the $56 million lump-sum penalty portion of the settlement that resolves a decades-long dispute over postmasters and...