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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...
Santa Ana Second Graders Love Writing Letters – And Saving Our Post Office
April 27, 2016
St. Anne’s second graders show off letters they wrote to their parents asking them to help Save Our Post Office. Chief Steward Sandra German and Western Region Coordinator Omar Gonzalez visited on April 25.
After a visit from the APWU on April 25,...
Celebrate May Day, International Workers Day, May 1
April 27, 2016
A 1933 May Day celebration in New York City.
May Day, the International Workers Day, is celebrated around the world on May 1.
Although May Day originated in Chicago in the 1880s when workers first fought for the eight-hour day, the holiday is not...
Idaho Sends Resolution Opposing Plant Consolidations to U.S. Senate
April 25, 2016
An Idaho resolution opposing mail processing plant consolidations and USPS service cuts was delivered to the U.S. Senate on April 19 – a year after Postal Service shuttered the Pocatello plant.
Whose Union Is It Anyway
April 22, 2016
Regional Coordinator Omar Gonzalez (right) administers the Oath of Office to officers of the Greater Seattle Area Local. All APWU officers take an oath and pledge to uphold the union’sconstitution and to perform the duties of office to the best of...
Maintenance Members Have Their Say
April 21, 2016
Edward Harris, Ed Devey, Mike Bayless.
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
As this magazine goes to press, the union is speeding quickly toward completion of our case before Arbitrator...