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June 11, 2020
American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein to Testify TODAY, Thursday June 11, 1 p.m. ET, at Congressional Hearing on Voting Rights and Administering Elections
M E D I A A D V I S O R Y For Immediate Release, June 11, 2020 Contact: Jamie Horwitz, jhdcpr@starpower.net, 202-549-4921 American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein to Testify TODAY, Thursday June 11, 1 p.m. ET, at Congressional Hearin...
December 21, 2018
Santa May Need to Take Out a Loan in the Future
American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein says: “This gift delivered to Wall Street will be paid for by Main Street.” WASHINGTON – When the Trump Administration released its postal task force report earlier this month, the American P...
September 9, 2014
Statement by APWU President Mark Dimondstein on the ‘Democracy for All’ Constitutional Amendment
Since 2010, it’s gotten harder for minorities, young people, senior citizens and working people to vote, but easier for the super-rich to buy elections. Corporate money is drowning out the voice of the people. The Senate vote on Sept. 8 to allow cons...
November 15, 2013
Do Not Believe the Type
“Headlines across the country are shouting that the USPS lost billions of dollars again this year, but that’s a fallacy,” APWU President Mark Dimondstein said after the USPS released financial information for fiscal year 2013. “If it weren’t for the...
April 10, 2013
Congress is Killing the Postal Service, Guffey Declares
“Congress is killing the Postal Service,” APWU President Cliff Guffey declared on April 10. “While Saturday mail delivery has dominated recent discussions, little attention is being paid to other drastic measures the USPS is taking that will signific...
February 12, 2013
Congress Must Act Now to Save USPS, Guffey Tells Senators
“The crisis confronting the Postal Service is dire, but the demise of the USPS is not inevitable,” APWU President Cliff Guffey will tell a Senate panel on Feb. 13. “Congress can cure the illness without killing the patient,” he said in a statement [P...
July 30, 2012
USPS Default Could Have Been Avoided
The Postal Service’s default on a $5.5 billion payment to the U.S. Treasury due Aug. 1 is the result of a congressionally-manufactured financial crisis and could have been avoided, APWU President Cliff Guffey has charged. Although the default won’t h...
December 5, 2011
USPS Plan Will Hasten Demise of a Still-Vital Institution
“The Postal Service plan will hasten the demise of the USPS,” APWU President Cliff Guffey said in response to the agency’s announcement that it would seek an advisory opinion from the Postal Regulatory Commission on plans to eliminate next-day delive...
March 18, 2010
APWU Denounces Five-Day Mail Delivery, Urges Congress to Correct Pre-Funding Requirement
APWU President William Burrus denounced Postal Service plans to eliminate Saturday mail delivery March 18, and urged Congress instead to correct two major causes of USPS financial difficulties: A provision of the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhanc...