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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.

Fight for Working Class Unity

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By President Mark Dimondstein  "In Our Unity, Lies Our Strength!” “An Injury to One is an Injury to All!” These are crucial union principles for...

Let's Build The Grand Alliance

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) "Save and enhance the U.S. Postal Service” was the overwhelming spirit of the community field hearings held around the country by A Grand...

Bank Closings and Lack of Confidence Point the Way to Postal Banking

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Way back in 1956, an article in the Monthly Business Review made a case for ending the Postal Savings System (see box). “It would seem that the...

From the Field

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) From the Field is a new recurring feature for the American Postal Worker spotlighting statements from APWU local and state publications on a...

Contracts Ratified

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Support Services Director Steve Brooks  The Support Services Division ratified two of its tentative agreements in August. First, the...

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