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APWU Releases Q&As about 2025 Voluntary Early Retirement

February 1, 2025
The Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) recently announced for eligible postal workers by the Postal Service has generated many questions from the members of the APWU. The Postal Service published a list of questions and answers for our members.

House Resolution 70: Protecting the People’s Post Office

January 30, 2025
Please call APWU’s Legislative Hotline at 1-844-402-1001 to be connected to your member of Congress today, and ask them to cosponsor H. Res. 70, which expressly opposes postal privatization. Defending the people’s public Postal Service from...

Bank Closings and Lack of Confidence Point the Way to Postal Banking

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Way back in 1956, an article in the Monthly Business Review made a case for ending the Postal Savings System (see box). “It would seem that the...

From the Field

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) From the Field is a new recurring feature for the American Postal Worker spotlighting statements from APWU local and state publications on a...

Contracts Ratified

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Support Services Director Steve Brooks  The Support Services Division ratified two of its tentative agreements in August. First, the...

Still in the Struggle

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Central Regional Coordinator Sharyn M. Stone Postal management’s massive violation of Article 12 continues to have a significant impacton our...

Sept. 1 and Where is the Work?

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Motor Vehicle Service Craft Directors  On August 18, 2016, Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled in case Q06C-4Q-C 11182451 that the Postal Service had...

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