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Keep Calling Congress to Oppose Cuts to Postal and Federal Pensions
May 19, 2025
In the late night hours of Sunday, May 18, 2025, the House Budget Committee voted by a margin of 17-16 to advance a bill that would give $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy on the backs of the working class. Just two days prior, the same...
Flip the Script on Aging
May 19, 2025
Retirees Director Nancy Olumekor encourages retirees to honor Older Americans Month by flipping the script on aging - reframe our mindsets and focus on the positive aspects of growing older while fostering relationships with the community around us.
Clerk Craft Updates
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
By Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson
National Grievances
As a result of the Clerk Craft’s win in the Sales Retention Team dispute, the USPS...
Strikes, Shutdown and Service — Public Servants Rise in Defense of the Public Good
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Conventional wisdom suggested that the anti-union Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME last summer spelled the inevitable decline of public sector...
Advocating for Postal Banking in the U.S. and Canada
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
As was previously reported in the American Postal Worker, the Canadian government forced striking Canadian Union of Postal Workers back to work at...
What's to Come in Interest Arbitration
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman
Our efforts to reach a new contract are now entering the next phases of mediation and interest...
Secretary-Treasurer Powell Honored with World Peace Prize for Labor Leadership
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
On Feb. 5, Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth “Liz” Powell was honored by the World Peace Prize Awarding Council (WPPAC) as a “Roving Ambassador for Peace...