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Layoffs - Worst Case Scenario?

May 15, 2025
“You and your coworkers are the Union! No matter your political party, now is the time to protect America’s Postal Service!” – Western Regional Coordinator Omar Gonzalez explains steps we can take to defend the public Postal Service and preserve our...

Due Process, Your Union Right

May 15, 2025
Industrial Relations Director Charlie Cash explains due process, “one of our most important union rights. In the simplest of terms, it means you have the right to your ‘day in court’ to tell your side of the story and defend yourself if management...

USPS Utilizing Disgraced Former NLRB Commissioner

October 3, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson  The United States Postal Service is utilizing Terence F. Flynn, the disgraced former National Labor...

Resolutions Opposing Privatization of the Postal Service Introduced in Congress

October 2, 2018
On July 16, a leading group of Congressional representatives took action to help combat a proposal to privatize the Postal Service by introducing House Resolution 993. The privatization proposal, put forward by the White House’s Office of...

The National Convention Sets the Path for Current and Future APWU Struggles

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  Twenty-one hundred APWU members departed from the union’s 24th Biennial National Convention in August uplifted, united and ready to continue ...

Stand Up for Safe Jobs

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman  “It is the responsibility of management to provide safe working conditions in all present and...

Local Union Elections

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell  It starts with the process for nominations. One of the ways to alleviate and hopefully prevent complaints,...

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