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APWU Takes on Wall Street and Postal Privatizers
July 24, 2025
On July 24, hundreds of postal workers, labor allies, and members of the community took to the streets of New York City in a high-spirited rally to tell Wall Street bankers, billionaires, and anyone who wants to privatize our postal service that “...
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...
India Will Implement Postal Banking To Better Serve Remote Residents
March 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
India Post is planning to implement postal banking later this year, in order to better serve residents in rural and remote areas.
As part of the plan...
APWU Joins Democracy Initiative
February 29, 2016
Five years after the “Citizens United” Supreme Court ruling unleashed unlimited and often secret corporate cash into the political process and elections, and with voter suppression on the rise, the APWU has joined the “Democracy Initiative,” a...
APWU Joins Democracy Initiative
February 29, 2016
Five years ago the “Citizens United” Supreme Court ruling unleashed unlimited, and often secret, corporate cash into the political process and elections. Now just 158 families will contribute over 50 percent of the billions being spent on the 2016...
Women Workers Defy Their Boss and Win a Union
February 29, 2016
New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug, right foreground, walks a picket
line supporting striking Farah workers in Houston on Feb. 10, 1973.
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Factory...
The U.S. Mail Is NOT for Sale
February 29, 2016
1. Why is there a boycott of Staples?
Because Staples and the U.S. Postal Service cut a deal setting up phony “post offices” inside their stores.