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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.
Barbara Jean Prothro
April 9, 2014
Barbara Jean Prothro, a former National Business Agent for the Special Delivery Messenger Division, died March 30. She was 78.
USPS Needs Real Reform – Not More Austerity
April 9, 2014
The Postal Service needs real reform — not the austerity proposed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and the White House, APWU President Mark Dimondstein said after an April 8 hearing by a House committee. The hearing of the Oversight and Government Reform...
Locations Announced for April 24 Protests to ‘Stop Staples’
April 8, 2014
APWU local leaders are hard at work organizing protests for the APWU’s National Day of Action on April 24 at Staples Stores around the country. Union members and supporters will oppose a sweetheart deal between the office-supply retail chain and the...
‘Stop Staples,’ Chicago Activists Say
April 7, 2014
Hundreds of APWU members, joined by hundreds of labor and community activists, took to the streets outside a Staples store in Elmwood Park, IL to protest a no-bid, sweetheart deal between the U.S. Postal Service and Staples to set up postal “...
Staples Deal Still a Secret — But Hearing Reveals Disturbing Truths
April 7, 2014
The Postal Service and Staples are working overtime to keep the details of their sweetheart deal a secret, but a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board — and documents the USPS was forced to provide to the APWU — have revealed some...