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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.
Making Sure America Unites to Save Our Public Postal Service
November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
How can we make sure America unites with us to stop the destruction of the public Postal Service?
We need to make support for the people’s...
OIG Recommends Putting a Hold on Plant Closures
November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
APWU predictions that lower service standards would wreak havoc on mail delivery were substantiated in a “Management Alert” issued by the USPS...
Young Workers Play Big Role In Seattle Teachers’ Victory
November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Seattle teachers picketed at every school in the district .
Photo courtesy of Seattle Education Association
Seattle teachers won a strong...
Historic First Meeting with Postmaster General
November 1, 2015
From left: John Hatton, National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association;
Eva Dominguez, Alliance for Retired Americans; Melanie Campbell, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation/Black Women’s Roundtable; Postmaster General Megan...
Health & Safety Campaign Takes Off
November 1, 2015
One of the broken outlets found at the New Mexico facilty.
Photo courtesy of OIG
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Declaring that “there are far too many serious safety problems...