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Postal Service Eliminates Deepest Presort Discounts for Package Consolidators

November 19, 2024
The Postal Service eliminated the deepest presort discounts used by package consolidators, returning work to the USPS and increasing revenue.

Retirees Can Save on Medicare with the APWU High Option

November 18, 2024
Health Plan Director Sarah Jane Rodriguez explains how retirees can save on Medicare with the APWU Health Plan High Option.

Latest CPI Rise Will Yield $812 Annual Increase

August 16, 2006
The final Cost-Of-Living Adjustment under the National Agreement will give APWU-craft employees an annual raise of $812. The Consumer Price Index rose slightly in July, the last month of the latest six-month Cost-Of-Living Adjustment measuring...

Delegates Debate, Approve Resolutions In Preparation for USPS Contract Talks

August 16, 2006
Delegates discuss a resolution before lining up at a floor microphone to take part in the debate. APWU members at the 18th Biennial National Convention displayed overwhelming unity Tuesday in approving resolutions intended to guide the union’s...

APWU Convention Delegates to Protest Decline in Service

August 15, 2006
Philadelphians are keenly aware of a decline in area mail service in recent months, and Thursday afternoon the APWU will help make sure that residents hear that the dramatic deterioration in service is the result of ill-advised postal policies that...

Celebrate: '100 Years of Progress'

August 15, 2006
Chester Parrish, left, and President William Burrus cut into the ceremonial cake. It would not have been much of a birthday without a cake, so the American Postal Workers Union kicked off its 18th Biennial National Convention with a salute to a...

Union Launches Ad Campaign to Combat Consolidation

July 26, 2006
Thirty-second television ads outline the negative effects of consolidation on mail service. The APWU is taking its grassroots campaign against USPS “network realignment” to a new level by airing radio and television ads that warn of week-long delays...

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