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Stepping Up Our Work to Face a New Threat

May 20, 2025
Amid threats of privatization by the current presidential administration, A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service has revitalized our campaign, bringing together allied coalitions to strengthen ties between postal workers and our...

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...

NLRB Strikes Major Blow to USPS-Staples Deal

September 1, 2015
(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 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a complaint on June 26...

Negotiations and the Power in a Union

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) “If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without...

Walmart: Stop Charter School Fraud

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...

Security Breach at OPM

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) As the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) faces inquiries, criticism and lawsuits regarding its recent data breaches, the APWU remains...

The End of the Fiscal Year and Custodial Hours

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) We are quite likely still heading for Interest Arbitration for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. And while that is the top priority for...

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