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Reconciliation Legislation Passes - Attacks on Postal Pensions DEFEATED
July 3, 2025
On July 3, Trump's tax-and-spending reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed by narrow margins in the House and Senate, giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy paid for by the working class. While we successfully fought off the threats most...
Privatizers Lay Out Their Plan for Destroying Public Postal Service
June 30, 2025
On June 24, the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing titled, “The Route Forward for the U.S. Postal Service: A View from Stakeholders.”
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a neurobiological anxiety disorder characterized by uncontrollable, unwanted thoughts and repetitive, ritualized behaviors. Even though the compulsive behaviors seem irrational, the person with OCD is powerless...
Award on Obligation to Notify APWU of Withdrawal of CFR Revision
Arbitrator Linda Byars sustained the union's position that in order to make moot the union's appeal to arbitration of a proposed revision to a regulation which the Postal Service does not intend to implement, the Service is required to notify the...
Retirement Systems Modernization
Among the most difficult decisions that employees have to make are those regarding retirement. Many APWU members wait too long to gather and study the information needed to make good post-career choices.
Trampling on Veterans' Rights
A recent regional Merit Systems Protection Board decision rejected the appeal of an APWU veteran who had been involuntarily demoted to a lower grade. "Appellant may well be performing lower-graded duties," the board ruled, "but, absent an official...
e-Team Report, Jan. 24, 2014
S.1486 Postal Reform Act of 2014 Amended “Carper/Coburn Bill”
Breaking News: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2013 Union Membership Report