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How to Receive One-Time Retirement Incentive Checks

April 29, 2025
The incentive checks will be sent to the employee’s office of last appointment. From there, the retiree can pick it up from the office or it will be mailed from the office to the address indicated on the PS 3077 -Request to Forward Salary Check form...

Celebrating May Day 2025 - International Workers' Day

April 29, 2025
May Day, the annual holiday recognizing the international working class, will be celebrated around the world on May 1. We encourage APWU members to join our labor allies across the country at one of the many May Day events happening to combat the...

Postal Banking Gaining Steam on Capitol Hill

August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) There has been more activity around expanding postal financial services on Capitol Hill since the last edition of The American Postal Worker went to...

Postal Strike/50th Birthday/ Anniversary of APWU

August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On July 1, 2021, the APWU celebrated its 50th Anniversary/ Birthday. The APWU commemorated the event by giving a presentation via Livestream about...

Maintenance: 50 Years Later

August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In 1971, five independent and separate unions representing several thousand postal workers merged to become the American Postal Workers Union, AFL-...

Changes are Coming in Mail Processing Facilities

August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In recent weeks and months, the Postal Service has begun implementing changes to its mail processing operations, and these changes are apt to...

Q&A with Bessemer, AL Amazon Union Organizer Jennifer Bates

August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Earlier this year, workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, AL fulfillment center worked to unionize their workplace with the Retail, Wholesale and Department...

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