APWU Members Rally In Support of Workers’ Rights

APWU members across the country joined a national “Call to Action” on April 4 to support embattled state and local government workers in states where anti-labor legislators are threatening employees’ rights to collectively bargain and have a voice at work.

Labor unions, activists, and other allies organized more than 1,000 solidarity events across the country as part of the AFL-CIO’s “We Are One” campaign. The primary “Day of Solidarity” takes place on the day Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in 1968 while in Memphis, TN, to support the city’s sanitation workers demanding the right to bargain collectively for a better life.

The day’s events include town-hall meetings, rallies, candlelight vigils, teach-ins, worksite leafleting, and workshops. In Washington, DC, APWU

 officers and staff joined hundreds of other organizations in a march to the headquarters of Koch Industries — which gives millions of dollars a year to underwrite the efforts of anti-union groups and to fund campaigns for anti-worker politicians — to show solidarity with embattled workers in Wisconsin, Ohio, and dozens of other states where union rights are being threatened.

Some legislators have also set their sights on the Tentative Agreement between the APWUand the USPS. Last week, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, publicly condemned the proposed contract, saying it was too generous to workers.

APWU President Cliff Guffey will testify at an April 5 hearing before the Committee, which will be shown online. For more information about the hearing and how to watch, click here.