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Looking Back: Black Workers Organize ‘Revolutionary Union Movement’

May 19, 2025
This month in Labor History, we look back at the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement of 1968 -  when over 4,000 Black workers who were fed up with racist policies organized a two-day strike at Chrysler’s Hamtracmck plant to demand improvements for...

Welcome and Gratitude

May 19, 2025
Health Plan Director Sarah J. Rodriguez expresses gratitude for members’ support of the APWU Health Plan, sharing excellent satisfactory rankings in payment accuracy, financial accuracy, and administrative accuracy.

Frequently Asked Questions

January 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) In October, the APWU Health Plan hosted our yearly Health Plan Seminar in Las Vegas, NV. The education of local and state leaders on health plan...

New Employee, New Union Member

January 1, 2017
Prospective members at orientation training by the Phoenix Metro Area Local. (This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)  Missed opportunities to strengthen the APWU are happening every...

Let’s Work Together to Strengthen Our Union!

January 1, 2017
New Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman with  NBA Pete Coradi, Queens Area Local President Ron Suslak,  local leaders and activists. (This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) I...

New Congress, Same Goals

January 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The 2016 election is over. It is time to revamp our efforts to secure legislation to benefit the working class and protect the public Postal...

Let’s Get the Year Started Right!

January 1, 2017
“As long as we collectively work together, stand together and fight together, we can do any doggone thing we want to do!”  said Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell at the Rally for Social and Economic Justice and Equality. Photo courtesy of NNU  (This...

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