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APWU Launches National Ad; Warns of Price Hikes, Post Office Closures in Anti-Privatization Campaign
July 21, 2025
This week the American Postal workers Union (APWU) launched a national advertising campaign on to alert the public about proposed plans to privatize the public postal service. The ad called “Memo” highlights a document sent by Wells Fargo Equity...
APWU Arbitration Award Secures Grievance Rights for Separated Non-Probationary Employees
July 17, 2025
The APWU has secured a major victory for the rights of non-probationary employees who are discharged without just cause from the Postal Service to file grievances on those discharges and have them heard in arbitration, Industrial Relations Director...
Senate Opposes USPS Service Cuts
May 1, 2015
The Senate approved a motion on S. Con. Res. 11 introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that instructs budget conferees to insist on a deficit-neutral fund to halt mail processing center closures, restore overnight mail delivery, and protect...
The Road to a New Contract
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
The road to contract negotiations has been a long one. The APWU began holding internal weekly meetings in August 2014; the current Collective Bargaining...
Mail Delivery Takes a Dramatic Dive
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Across the country, postal customers are complaining that they’re waiting longer for their mail. And while postal management dismisses the complaints as...
Canadian Postal Workers Launch Boycott
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Postal workers in the United States and Canada face many of the same struggles – including the threat of privatization.
Mirroring the Stop Staples...
Virginia Clerk is the Talk of His Town
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Tucked away in the western corner of Virginia, just across the Kentucky border, is the sleepy town of Pound.
On a frigid Tuesday morning this past...