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Better Staffing, Better Service
August 2, 2024
A Grassroots Campaign to Improve Our Public Postal Service
An Update on the Social Security Fairness Act
July 31, 2024
The APWU has never stopped fighting to pass the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82, S. 597).
Older Americans Month Contest
March 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
May is Older Americans Month. In keeping with our union’s tradition of observance, the APWU National Executive Board passed a resolution encouraging...
APWU Donates to CT-ALIVE
March 8, 2016
Northeastern Regional Coordinator John Dirzius
(center) presents an APWU-POWER donation
to Trish Thomas, president, CT-ALIVE
The APWU made two donations to CT-ALIVE (Connecticut Alliance for Victims of Violence & Their Families) on March 6, at...
March 8 is International Women’s Day
March 8, 2016
Tuesday, March 8, is International Women’s Day, a celebration of the social, cultural, economic, and political achievements of working women worldwide.
USPS Loses Money on Closures and Mail Slowdown Plan
March 7, 2016
Over the last few weeks, news has spread about a bombshell report that postal management’s supposed cost-saving decision to shutter plants and slow down the mail has actually lost the USPS money. As reported in Government Executive, “The U.S. Postal...
Don’t Let Congress Run Out the Clock on Overtime
March 4, 2016
The APWU is asking union members to sign a petition sponsored by the AFL-CIO that calls on President Obama and the Department of Labor to move quickly to implement a new overtime rule that will increase workers' pay.