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Recent Polling Shows Registered Voters Overwhelmingly Favor Public Postal Service, Expanding Services

May 8, 2025
In February, the APWU commissioned a national survey to better understand the public’s sentiment on the public Postal Service and attempts at privatization. Here are the key takeaways 

PRESS RELEASE: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Privatizing the U.S. Postal Service, Finds New Survey from Democratic and Republican Polling firms

May 8, 2025
WASHINGTON – New polling shows that postal customers strongly believe that proposals to privatize the United States Postal Service should be marked “Return to Sender.”  In a national survey of 1,402 registered voters, those surveyed oppose postal...

Postal Worker Fatally Struck in Unsafe Parking Lot

May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) APWU member Nadia Assad was fatally struck by a van driven by a co-worker as she walked through the employee parking lot to the Dominick V. Daniels...

Addressing Veterans' Unemployment

May 1, 2016
Left Center Sue Carney, APWU Human Relations Director; Center Michael Michaud, Assistant Secretary DOL VETS, Center right, Will Fischer, Executive Director, Union Veterans Council, AFL-CIO (This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of ...

National Negotiations, Grievance Settlements

May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) At the interest arbitration hearing for a new contract in february, the Clerk Craft presented two panels of workers who explained their job...

PSEs’ Hardships and Indignities

May 1, 2016
Nations’ Capital/Southern Maryland Area Local President Dena Briscoe, Lakeram Singh, Donica Collie, President Mark Dimondstein, Richard Ogoh, and Jody Harper. Nine Postal Support Employees presented emotional testimony on March 10 before a panel of...

Facing Repression, Salvadoran Workers Fight Privatization

May 1, 2016
Salvadoran workers carry a banner that says, "Thanks to the Working Class" in a 2013 May Day demonstration.  Faced with a relentless push to privatize their jobs, port and airport workers in El Salvador have been fighting back and building...

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