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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.

More Than Double the Goal

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The Dallas Area Local sponsored a COPA drive with the goal of raising $5,000 for the union’s Committee on Political Action – well over the...

Walmart: Stop Fraud, Abuse in Charter Schools

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Recently, there have been many headlines about waste, fraud, and abuse at charter schools across the country. School districts lack the...

OSHA Slams Postal Service with Five Citations, $16,000 in Fines

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) After an onsite inspection, OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) slammed the Postal Service with five citations for violating...

Postal Service Fails to Meet Safety Goals

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) According to an analysis by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), the Postal Service failed to meet its own safety goals in Fiscal Year 2014...

Reporters Unionize

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) On June 3, workers at New York-based Gawker Media became the first employees of a major digital media company to organize a union. Journalists...

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