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APWU POWER: The Women’s Committee Within Our Union
May 19, 2025
Research & Education Director Joyce B. Robinson provides a brief history of APWU POWER (Post Office Women for Equal Rights), and invites members to attend the APWU POWER 22nd Biennial National Convention taking place in August.
Organizing Is Not Passive: Why Union Building Means Reaching Out, Not Waiting Around
May 19, 2025
“Organizing is about talking to people and building relationships. It is about having hard conversations and asking others to stand with you.” - Organizing Director Anna Smith encourages members to organize their non-member coworkers.
Postal Regulator Tells Congress of Failures in Consolidation Planning
August 2, 2007
In a rush to redesign its nationwide network of facilities, the Postal Service acted on several misguided and poorly rationalized assumptions, a Postal Regulatory Commission official told Congress in late July.
In testimony before a House of...
Union Members to Question Presidential Candidates
August 1, 2007
Will the next president fight for the concerns of working families? Will he or she be accountable to America’s workers — or to corporate donors? Will our nation’s next leader offer empty rhetoric or real change that will increase opportunity and...
Candidates Certified for Election Of Chicago Region Clerk NBA
July 27, 2007
Secretary-Treasurer Terry Stapleton has certified six union members as candidates for the position of Clerk Craft National Business Agent (A) for the Chicago region. The nominating process was extended because of the untimely death of Percy Harrison...
Tennessee AMP Study Terminated
July 27, 2007
The APWU has been notified that a proposed consolidation that would have resulted in a mail-processing shift approximately 90 miles across southwest Tennessee will not occur.
“After review, it has been determined that there are currently no...
Burrus Testifies Before Senate: USPS on Path to Privatization
July 26, 2007
The USPS “has begun to travel resolutely down the road of privatization,” APWU President William Burrus told a Senate subcommittee on July 25, “without authorization from Congress” — or the American people. The subcontracting of postal work, he...