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Looking Back: Black Workers Organize ‘Revolutionary Union Movement’

May 19, 2025
This month in Labor History, we look back at the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement of 1968 -  when over 4,000 Black workers who were fed up with racist policies organized a two-day strike at Chrysler’s Hamtracmck plant to demand improvements for...

Welcome and Gratitude

May 19, 2025
Health Plan Director Sarah J. Rodriguez expresses gratitude for members’ support of the APWU Health Plan, sharing excellent satisfactory rankings in payment accuracy, financial accuracy, and administrative accuracy.

National APWU Encourages Continued COVID-19 Safety Diligence

October 16, 2020
Over recent weeks, the United States has experienced a rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases across the country. According to the Washington Post, since Saturday, October 10, more than 20 states have recorded record highs in their seven-day average of...

Social Security Announces 1.3 Percent Benefit Increase for 2021

October 13, 2020
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for approximately 70 million Americans will increase 1.3 percent in 2021, the Social Security Administration announced today. The 1.3 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin...

World Post Day

October 9, 2020
October 9 is World Post Day, a moment to celebrate the unique and vital role postal workers play in the civic, economic and social life of people around the globe.  The date commemorates the founding of the Universal Postal Union, which since 1874...

Two Additional Federal Courts Issue Injunctions Against Postal Service’s Policy Changes

October 2, 2020
Two federal district courts have entered a third and fourth injunction against the Postal Service to undo the policy changes that it implemented over the summer and to protect voting by mail. 

Second Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Against Postal Service To Protect Election Mail

September 24, 2020
On Monday, Judge Victor Marrero on the federal district court for the Southern District of New York issued the second nationwide injunction against the Postal Service on election mail. 

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