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APWU Launches National Ad; Warns of Price Hikes, Post Office Closures in Anti-Privatization Campaign
July 21, 2025
This week the American Postal workers Union (APWU) launched a national advertising campaign on to alert the public about proposed plans to privatize the public Postal Service. The ad called “Memo” highlights a document sent by Wells Fargo Equity...
APWU Arbitration Award Secures Grievance Rights for Separated Non-Probationary Employees
July 17, 2025
The APWU has secured a major victory for the rights of non-probationary employees who are discharged without just cause from the Postal Service to file grievances on those discharges and have them heard in arbitration, Industrial Relations Director...
For CSRS Retirees:
The 2015 CSRS retiree COLA is based on the third quarter (July, August, September) average CPI-W index in 2014 over the 2013 third quarter average. After the fourth quarter of 2013, the first quarter of the 2015 COLA adjustment period, the quarterly...
Zero Base Initiative, Zero Change
The Zero Base Initiative, which is the Postal Service’s new terminology for the old Breakthrough Productivity Initiative (BPI), is causing concern among many Motor Vehicle Craft union members.
While the name has changed, the stated goal of the...
Operation Care Package
Care packages provide warm messages and familiarities from home. Packages are sent to servicemen and women serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recipients include members of all branches of the military, from everywhere in the US. We also...
e-Team Report, Nov. 18, 2011
More Calls for USPS Privatization - Take Action Today! Tell Congress to Vote No on H.R. 2309!
Congress Moves through Budget Funding Measure – Defers Postal Service’s Prefunding Deadline
Congressman Introduces Two Pieces of Legislation Aiming to...
Raising Awareness to Save Lives
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that every 13 minutes someone in the U.S. commits suicide. More than 38,360 Americans died by suicide in 2010.