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Bill Restricting Federal and Postal Unions from Deducting Union Dues Moves Forward in Congress
May 20, 2025
On March 18, the Paycheck Protection Act (H.R. 2174) was introduced in the House, which if passed, will prevent all federal and postal unions from deducting union dues from employee paychecks, thus weakening our collective bargaining power. Learn...
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...
Arbitrator Sustains MS-47 Challenge
In another recent national-level award, Arbitrator Shyam Das sustained the union's challenge to management's revisions to the custodial staffing handbook (MS-47) and ordered the Postal Service to rescind the 2001 MS-47 Handbook, reinstate the...
“Dang Union, I’m Getting Out!”
(This article appears in the November-December 2013 edition of The American Postal Worker.)
“Dang union, I’m getting out!” This phrase, unfortunately uttered far too often, reflects how little success union officers have in earning the understanding...
Nurses Interest-Arbitration Scheduled
Arguments over disputed contract issues for postal nurses will be heard by an interest arbitrator beginning March 23. The National Postal Professional Nurses-APWU contract expired Aug. 20, 2007, and the union and the Postal Service agreed to submit...
e-Team Report, March 9, 2012
Transportation Trouble
Postal Reform
USPS Makes Call to Halt Closures During Election Season
AFLAC Specified Health Event and Cancer Insurance
To help union members protect their future against catastrophic illnesses, the APWU is pleased to offer Cancer Personal Indemnity and other Specified Health Event insurance coverage. These comprehensive, affordable benefits, made available through...