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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.
Veteran's Day
November 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Every year on Nov. 11, Americans celebrate Veterans Day to honor the millions of men and women who have served, or are serving in our nation’s...
Labor History Milestones
October 31, 2016
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
A letter carrier delivers a live baby, which became outlawed in 1916 when post office management set a weight limit on packages and barred the...
Contractual Retroactive Payment in November 18th Paychecks: Second Annual Wage Increase Coming Soon.
October 31, 2016
Retroactive Pay for Nov. 14, 2015 – Aug. 5, 2016
The interest arbitration award dated July 8, 2016 that established the terms for the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), ordered a retroactive pay increase effective Nov. 14, 2015. USPS...
APWU Organizing Victory!
October 28, 2016
Gloria Gonzalez (left) and her co-worker proudly display
their APWU membership cards.
The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is celebrating an organizing victory! Workers at the Mail Transport Equipment Service Center (MTESC) located in Urbandale...
Stop Staples Campaign Alive and Well in Massachusetts
October 24, 2016
Stop Staples activists held a rally in front of a bustling location in Revere, MA, just north of Boston, on Oct. 20.