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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...
APWU Victory! USPS Ends Attempt to Change Union LWOP Rules for Political Activity
August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
On July 9, postal management informed President Dimondstein that they are ending their attempt to change Union Leave Without Pay (LWOP) rules...
For The People Act: Securing Voting Rights for All
August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
If signed into law, the For the People Act (HR.1/S.1) would be the largest expansion and protection of voting rights in decades. The legislation...
The Power of Organizing
August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
I often hear some members asking why it matters that we keep emphasizing the importance of organizing. With 200,000 members, some say, why does it...
Labor News
August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Nabisco Workers on Strike Across the Country
On August 10, 200 workers at a Nabisco bakery in Portland, OR, represented by Bakers, Confectioners,...
APWU Member Testifies on Service Standards
August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
APWU member Brian McLaurin was asked to testify before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) by...