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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.”
Retirees Mark a Milestone
The APWU Retirees Department is 20 years old this year! The APWU now has 62 retiree chapters and over 37,000 members working in their communities to support important legislation; educating seniors on issues that will help them have a better quality...
Arbitrator Sustains MS-47 Challenge
In another recent national-level award, Arbitrator Shyam Das sustained the union's challenge to management's revisions to the custodial staffing handbook (MS-47) and ordered the Postal Service to rescind the 2001 MS-47 Handbook, reinstate the...
Nurses Interest-Arbitration Scheduled
Arguments over disputed contract issues for postal nurses will be heard by an interest arbitrator beginning March 23. The National Postal Professional Nurses-APWU contract expired Aug. 20, 2007, and the union and the Postal Service agreed to submit...
Effective Time-Management
The first step in managing your time effectively is to identify your goals and priorities. You must decide what you want out of life, and what you must do to get what you want.