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Recent Polling Shows Registered Voters Overwhelmingly Favor Public Postal Service, Expanding Services
May 8, 2025
In February, the APWU commissioned a national survey to better understand the public’s sentiment on the public Postal Service and attempts at privatization. Here are the key takeaways
PRESS RELEASE: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Privatizing the U.S. Postal Service, Finds New Survey from Democratic and Republican Polling firms
May 8, 2025
WASHINGTON – New polling shows that postal customers strongly believe that proposals to privatize the United States Postal Service should be marked “Return to Sender.” In a national survey of 1,402 registered voters, those surveyed oppose postal...
National Election Committee Amends Rules
March 26, 2007
The APWU National Election Committee has amended a rule governing the 2007 election of officers that was published in the March/April issue of The American Postal Worker.
The rule, which originally prohibited automatic national convention delegates...
APWU, USPS Reach Tentative Agreement on IT/ASC Contract
March 26, 2007
The APWU and the USPS have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract that covers more than 1,200 employees at the IT/ASC (Information Technology/Accounting Service Centers) facilities in Eagan (MN), San Mateo (CA), St. Louis, and...
Senate to Hold Hearing on Employee Free Choice Act
March 23, 2007
A Senate Committee will hear testimony March 27 from workers and labor law experts on the need to restore workers’ freedom to form unions to bargain for better wages and benefits.
“It’s no secret that a union contract is the best economic uplift...
Postal Service Continues Plans to Close AMCs
March 23, 2007
As part of an ongoing effort to outsource postal work, the USPS recently outlined management’s continuing plans to eliminate Air Mail Centers across the country. Two letters to the APWU provide additional details about plans management announced...
Unions Press FBI to Brief Congress on Anthrax Investigation
March 20, 2007
The APWU, along with the other postal unions and management associations, has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to grant congressional requests for a briefing by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on its inquiry into the 2001 anthrax attacks...