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Don't Let Management Take Your Pulse!

July 8, 2024
The APWU is urging union members to refrain from participating in the USPS management’s Postal Pulse survey. Negotiations for a new union contract began June 25, and any information you give them can be used in retaliation to hurt us during...

Contract Negotiations Begin – APWU Negotiating Team Delivers Opening Day Remarks

June 27, 2024
On June 25, contract negotiations began for our next main collective bargaining agreement with the Postal Service. The current contract expires on Sept. 20. Both the union and postal management exchanged opening statements, outlining their...

Dual Casual Reports

Dual casual reports are provided to the union on an Accounting Period basis.  The report monitors the use of Postmaster Reliefs, Rural Reliefs and other employees whose primary appointment is outside of the APWU crafts, but who have a “dual...

e-Team Report, July 26, 2013

Issa Advances His Postal Destruction Bill Out of Committee – Have Your Representatives Heard from You? Oversight Committee’s Ranking Member Calls Several Provision in Postal Bill “Extreme” Replacement Nominees for NLRB Announced following Senate...

Cancer Research Project Deserves Union Support

We’ve all been touched by breast cancer. Whether we’ve personally experienced the disease or have a relative, friend, or co-worker who has had to deal with the challenge head on — we know the devastating effects of breast cancer.  

Wall Street Journal Profiles People Affected by Failure to Expand Medicaid…

The Affordable Care Act was meant to cover people in part by expanding Medicaid to workers earning up to the federal poverty line—about $11,670 for a single person; more for families. In addition, people earning as much as four times the poverty...

Health Coverage When Injured at Work

Employees who are injured on duty and placed on the rolls of the Office of Workers Compensation Programs (OWCP) remain eligible for health benefits, provided they are enrolled in one of the Federal Employee Health Benefit (FEHB) plans for five years...

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