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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...
This is a 'Code Red Alert' to APWU Veterans
January 21, 2025
In the last Home Front article, we warned veterans about “Project 2025” and how a second Trump term would destroy the VA, and VA healthcare benefits. Unfortunately for our APWU veteran family, his Project 2025 plan to destroy VA healthcare could...
Atlanta APWU Members Brave Cold to ‘Stop Staples’
March 4, 2014
Seventy-five APWU members and supporters braved cold weather and high winds on March 4 to protest outside a Staples store in Atlanta and demand that the company staff “postal counters” in its stores with postal employees. Atlanta is one of four test...
NLRB: USPS Must Give APWU Staples Info
March 3, 2014
In a complaint issued Feb. 25, Region 5 of the National Labor Relations Board found merit in APWU charges [PDF] that the Postal Service has improperly refused to provide the union with information about its agreement with Staples. [NLRB complaint] ...
PRC Dismisses APWU Service Complaint
March 3, 2014
The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) has dismissed an APWU complaint which charges that the Postal Service is failing to meet its own service standards regarding the delivery of first-class mail. The union brought the complaint in its capacity as...
A Safe Workplace: It’s Not a Matter of Luck
March 1, 2014
(This article appears in the May-June 2014 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Tony D. McKinnon Sr., Industrial Relations Director
Our members want to be assured that we will leave work each day as healthy as we were when we arrived.
And...
Is Postal Banking an Idea Whose Time Has Come?
March 1, 2014
The USPS Office of Inspector General sparked quite a controversy when it published a white paper in late January that endorsed a concept postal unions have quietly supported for years: The Postal Service should provide basic financial services to...