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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.

Fed Up with Understaffing, Saint Louis Local Pickets Post Office

July 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Fed up with chronic understaffing of mail sorting machines, nearly 100 members of the Saint Louis Gateway Area Local and their allies formed an...

Thousands Protest Secret Trade Deals

July 8, 2016
Thousands protest secret trade deals in Hannover, Germany. (This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Approximately 30,000 protestors took to the streets of Hannover, Germany, in late April to...

Rewriting the Rules of the Rigged Economy

July 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) The average U.S. family paid $2,050 to bail out Wall Street after the economy crashed in 2008 and lost nearly $5,800 in income due to reduced economic...

Verizon Strikers Win Major Victories

July 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Walking the picket line in Washington, D.C. With their heads held high, more than 40,000 Verizon workers from Maine to Virginia returned to work in June,...

AGA Brings Postal Issues to the Public

July 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) John Seibel, an elections expert and president of True Ballot, testifies at the Baltimore Field Hearing. One concrete way that A Grand Alliance to Save Our...

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