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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.
Is Staples Cheating Its Employees?
January 21, 2014
Is Staples guilty of chronically cheating its employees out of their hard-earned wages?
e-Team Report, Jan. 17, 2014
January 17, 2014
Congress Approves HR 3547 -- Awaiting
Presidential Signature
Ranking Member of Homeland Security and
Government Affairs Committee to Retire Mid-Term
Legislative Updates:
S. 316/H.R.630, Postal Service Protection Act
H.R. 961, United States Postal...
Union Delivers the Message At Bay Area Staples Stores
January 17, 2014
APWU leaders in California recently delivered the union’s message to 13 Staples stores in the San Francisco Bay area: Opening postal retail units staffed by non-USPS employees is a disservice to postal workers and the nation’s mail service.
Postal Workers and Customers Deserve Better
January 16, 2014
Local union leaders are winning allies for the union’s campaign against a pilot program that placed postal retail centers in more than 80 Staples stores, reports Northeast Region Coordinator John Dirzius.
OTDL Employees on Penalty Overtime To be Priority-Scheduled over Casuals
January 16, 2014
In a decision issued Nov. 19, 2013, Arbitrator Shyam Das sustained the APWU’s position that full-time employees on the Overtime Desired List (OTDL) must be scheduled for overtime ahead of casual employees on overtime, even if the OTDL employees...