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17,000 AT&T Workers Strike Across Southeastern US

August 23, 2024
More than 17,000 AT&T workers across nine southeastern states walked off their jobs on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. The workers, represented by Communications Workers of America (CWA), filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge against AT&T...

Statement from APWU President Mark Dimondstein on the Postal Service’s Proposal to Further Slow Mail Processing and Delivery

August 23, 2024
The American Postal Workers Union is deeply concerned regarding the August 22nd announcement from postal management, with the support of the Postal Board of Governors, that they are once again planning to slow down much of the country’s mail. The...

Resolutions Opposing Privatization of the Postal Service Introduced in Congress

October 2, 2018
On July 16, a leading group of Congressional representatives took action to help combat a proposal to privatize the Postal Service by introducing House Resolution 993. The privatization proposal, put forward by the White House’s Office of...

The National Convention Sets the Path for Current and Future APWU Struggles

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  Twenty-one hundred APWU members departed from the union’s 24th Biennial National Convention in August uplifted, united and ready to continue ...

Stand Up for Safe Jobs

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman  “It is the responsibility of management to provide safe working conditions in all present and...

Local Union Elections

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell  It starts with the process for nominations. One of the ways to alleviate and hopefully prevent complaints,...

I Have a Dream, You Have a Dream, and Dr. King Had a Dream

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Vice President Debby Szeredy  My dream would be to help make APWU truly a movement of members fighting to save the USPS from privatization....

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