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2025 APWU Scholarship Winners Announced!

July 9, 2025
The APWU proudly presents the winners of three scholarship programs: The E.C. Hallbeck Memorial Scholarship, Vocational Scholarship, and Best Essay Award for 2025! 

Reconciliation Legislation Passes

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...

Funding Bill Postpones Pre-Funding Due Date

December 20, 2011
The government funding bill Congress approved over the weekend included a reprieve for the Postal Service: It delays until August the due date for the USPS to make a $5.5 billion payment to pre-fund healthcare benefits for future retirees.

Sen. Akaka, Rep. DeFazio Introduce Postal Bills

December 20, 2011
Several bills were introduced in Congress this month that would help resolve the Postal Service’s financial crisis and improve service to the American people, APWU Legislative and Political Director Myke Reid reports.

e-Team Report, Dec. 17, 2011

December 17, 2011
Postal Service to Temporarily Put a Freeze to Closures House Republicans Attack Federal Retirement Benefits Congressman DeFazio Introduces Legislation to Solve the Postal Service Financial Crisis By the Numbers – USPS

House Republicans Attack Postal and Federal Retirement Benefits

December 14, 2011
The House of Representatives voted 243-193 on Dec. 13 to pass the so-called “Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011,” which would cut take-home pay for postal and federal workers by increasing their contributions to the Civil Service...

USPS Announces Moratorium On Post Office, Plant Closures

December 13, 2011
The Postal Service has announced a five-month moratorium on the closure of post offices and mail processing facilities, in response to a request from 22 senators. ALSO: An arbitration hearing began on Dec. 13, 2011, on the first two of several...

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