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Reconciliation Legislation Passes - Attacks on Postal Pensions DEFEATED

July 3, 2025
On July 3, Trump's tax-and-spending reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed by narrow margins in the House and Senate, giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy paid for by the working class. While we successfully fought off the threats most...

Privatizers Lay Out Their Plan for Destroying Public Postal Service

June 30, 2025
On June 24, the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing titled, “The Route Forward for the U.S. Postal Service: A View from Stakeholders.”

This Too Shall Pass, We Must Persevere

January 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) As I am writing this article, our national elections have just finished. The candidate our union endorsed for U. S. President did not prevail,...

SEAM Challenged in National Arbitration

January 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) As we traveled across the country, we began to hear stories and concerns from our members concerning the new program Solution for Enterprise...

Moving Forward

January 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) We all begin a new year with hopes for improvements on the past year. Even if the past year was a really great one, for instance, one in which...

Keep the Clerk Craft Strong

January 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The Clerk Craft continued to grow with a net gain of approximately 5,500 new employees in the last year. Nearly all of this growth has been to...

Wells Fargo Scandal: A Labor Issue and One More Argument for Postal Banking

January 1, 2017
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) accused former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf  of “gutless leadership” during a Senate Banking Committee hearing. (This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The...

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