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Big News!! APWU, USPS Reach Tentative Agreement on New Union Contract!
June 6, 2025
The American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service have reached a tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), announced APWU President and Lead Negotiator Mark Dimondstein. The proposed union contract is three years in duration:...
House Passes Bill to Eliminate the FERS Supplemental “Bridge” Payment
May 22, 2025
The House just passed H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which eliminates the FERS supplemental bridge payment and funnels $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy. Our fight now moves to the Senate.
Augusta Thomas, Civil Rights, Labor Leader Honored
March 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Above: The original Greensboro sit-in participants. Insert, l-r: AFGE President J. David Cox,
Dimondstein, Ms. Thomas, and museum founders Skip...
Building a Democracy for the 21st Century
March 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
"Our democracy is under siege,” declares the website of the Democracy Initiative. The group is dedicated to ending the unprecedented influence of...
India Will Implement Postal Banking To Better Serve Remote Residents
March 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
India Post is planning to implement postal banking later this year, in order to better serve residents in rural and remote areas.
As part of the plan...
APWU Joins Democracy Initiative
February 29, 2016
Five years after the “Citizens United” Supreme Court ruling unleashed unlimited and often secret corporate cash into the political process and elections, and with voter suppression on the rise, the APWU has joined the “Democracy Initiative,” a...
APWU Joins Democracy Initiative
February 29, 2016
Five years ago the “Citizens United” Supreme Court ruling unleashed unlimited, and often secret, corporate cash into the political process and elections. Now just 158 families will contribute over 50 percent of the billions being spent on the 2016...