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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.
The Contract Fight
March 9, 2015
APWU Retiree Paul Felton of the 480-481 Area Local wrote the poem below.
As we negotiate our contract
Postal workers are under attack
They’re giving too much of our work away
And the mail we handle they try to delay
These issues will not be resolved...
Marking 50 Years Since Selma
March 6, 2015
March 7 commemorates the 50th anniversary of the march for civil rights from Selma to Montgomery, AL, which was cut short by police brutality. The march galvanized the burgeoning movement for voting rights and was a catalyst for passage of the...
King v. Burwell Supreme Court Case: Affordable Care Act Hangs in the Balance
March 6, 2015
Continued access to affordable health insurance for many early retirees is at stake as the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of King v. Burwell, a lawsuit challenging provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The...
e-Team Report, March 6, 2015
March 6, 2015
APWU Stands Firm with Allies – No TPP and No Fast Track
In the coming weeks, Congress is expected to consider a wrongheaded bill to "Fast Track" passage of the international trade deal known as Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). TPP would be the...