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2024 Penalty Overtime Exclusion Period
August 27, 2024
The "Penalty Overtime Exclusion" period for calendar year 2024 will begin Pay Period 26-2024, Week 1 (November 30, 2024) and end Pay Period 01-2025, Week 2 (December 27, 2024).
'Stay In Your Lane, APWU'?
August 27, 2024
Western Regional Coordinator Omar Gonzalez explains the importance of union involvement beyond the workroom floor including economic, political, and social justice as outlined in our National Constitution & Bylaws.
Momentum Demands Movement
September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Momentum is defined as “mass in motion,” or “mass multiplied by velocity.”
In the political arena, momentum is critical to getting legislation...
‘I Support Postal Banking!’
September 1, 2015
Activists protest payday lendors in Columbia, MO.
A May 2015 white paper by the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) concludes that the Postal Service can act now to expand and enhance existing financial services, such as money orders,...
A Grand Alliance Goes to Congress
September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
A delegation of representatives from A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service took their concerns about postal issues to Capitol Hill...
NLRB Strikes Major Blow to USPS-Staples Deal
September 1, 2015
Protestors outside Staples headquarters in
Framingham, MA, on June 4.
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
In a major blow to the Postal Service’s deal with Staples, Region 5 of...
'Post Office Guy' is a Civilian Champion
September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Sidney Moss is a semi-retired clinical social worker, but around town in Northampton, MA, he is known as “the post office guy.”
For the past...