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Looking Back: Black Workers Organize ‘Revolutionary Union Movement’
May 19, 2025
This month in Labor History, we look back at the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement of 1968 - when over 4,000 Black workers who were fed up with racist policies organized a two-day strike at Chrysler’s Hamtracmck plant to demand improvements for...
Welcome and Gratitude
May 19, 2025
Health Plan Director Sarah J. Rodriguez expresses gratitude for members’ support of the APWU Health Plan, sharing excellent satisfactory rankings in payment accuracy, financial accuracy, and administrative accuracy.
Postmaster General Petition Demonstrates Power of Alliance
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The collection and presentation of more than 400,000 petitions to the Postal Service Board of Governors regarding their appointment of the next...
Starting Strong, Looking Ahead
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Happy New Year! It was a great way to end last year when 250 non-supervisory postal workers at the Human Resource Shared Services Center in NC...
"The People's Postal Service: No One Gets Left Off the List" Holiday Ad
January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
John R. Smith, First Retirees Director, Passes Away
January 16, 2020
John R. Smith, former Retirees Department Director, passed away Jan. 11, at the age of 91. Brother Smith (known by most as “JR”) was the first ever director of the Retirees Department. At the time of his retirement from the APWU on May 7, 2005,...
Over 400,000 People Demand a Postmaster General Who Supports the Public Postal Service
January 9, 2020
On Jan. 6, APWU national officers, fellow union members, organizers and activists, many from organizations in A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service (Grand Alliance), gathered at USPS Headquarters to demand the Postal Board of Governors...