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Recent Polling Shows Registered Voters Overwhelmingly Favor Public Postal Service, Expanding Services

May 8, 2025
In February, the APWU commissioned a national survey to better understand the public’s sentiment on the public Postal Service and attempts at privatization. Here are the key takeaways 

PRESS RELEASE: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Privatizing the U.S. Postal Service, Finds New Survey from Democratic and Republican Polling firms

May 8, 2025
WASHINGTON – New polling shows that postal customers strongly believe that proposals to privatize the United States Postal Service should be marked “Return to Sender.”  In a national survey of 1,402 registered voters, those surveyed oppose postal...

POStPlan Award Implementation

March 17, 2020
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On February 10, the Maintenance Craft Division Director Balogun and the Postal Service signed off on the implementation of Arbitrator Goldberg’s Award...

It is Time to Collect on the 2010 Collective Bargaining Agreement!

March 17, 2020
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In the 2010 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the United States Postal Service (USPS) and the American Postal Workers Union (APWU),...

April 28 is Workers Memorial Day

March 17, 2020
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Every year on April 28, workers and their organizations come together to remember those who have died, been injured, or contracted an occupational...

Senators Receive the Message – Fix the Prefunding Debacle

March 17, 2020
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Thousands of APWU members again stepped up to join the U.S. Mail: Not for Sale campaign’s nationwide phone action on Tuesday, February 25, to tell the...

APWU Again Preserves Pay Increases and Job Security

March 17, 2020
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) We have a new contract! With Arbitrator Goldberg’s award in early March 2020, our collective bargaining agreement is now set.

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