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Big News!! APWU, USPS Reach Tentative Agreement on New Union Contract!
June 6, 2025
The American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service have reached a tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), announced APWU President and Lead Negotiator Mark Dimondstein. The proposed union contract is three years in duration:...
House Passes Bill to Eliminate the FERS Supplemental “Bridge” Payment
May 22, 2025
The House just passed H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which eliminates the FERS supplemental bridge payment and funnels $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy. Our fight now moves to the Senate.
APWU, Other Federal Unions Assail Senate Bill’s Excise Tax on Healthcare
December 8, 2009
Calling it “absolutely the wrong way” to pay for healthcare reform, APWU President William Burrus was among leaders of federal and postal unions objecting to the Senate bill’s proposed excise tax on many insurance plans.
Postal Service Trims List of Targeted Stations
November 20, 2009
The USPS announced Nov. 20 that it has reduced the list of stations and branches under consideration for closure to 241 [list] (from 371 in early October) but warned that the new list does not represent a final decision on consolidation, adding that...
Pay Raise Set for Nov. 21
November 18, 2009
APWU-represented postal workers will receive a 1.2 percent increase in their annual salaries effective Nov. 21.
ALSO: APWU members are being asked to contact their U.S. Senators and urge them to support healthcare reform legislation.
AND: Penalty-...
APWU Health Plan Offers Two Great Options
November 17, 2009
With health plan Open Season underway, the union urges postal and federal employees to consider the two great options offered by the APWU Health Plan.
Remember George: Give the Gift of Life
November 13, 2009
In a 90-day campaign launched in April, the APWU, the Postal Service and the National Marrow Donor Program took part in a nationwide marrow-registry drive, both to support the program in general and in the hopes that a donor-match would be found for...