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April 8, 2015
NLRB Slams Postal Service For Failure to Bargain over Employee Data Breach
WASHINGTON – In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has cited the Postal Service for failing to bargain with the APWU over last year’s massive data security breach. The incident, which was revealed to the union an...
April 8, 2015
NLRB Slams Postal Service For Failure to Bargain over Employee Data Breach
WASHINGTON – In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has cited the Postal Service for failing to bargain with the APWU over last year’s massive data security breach. The incident, which was revealed to the union an...
April 2, 2015
Postal Workers Question Harvard President Drew Faust’s Role on Staples Board of Directors
BOSTON – The American Postal Workers Union is running a full-page ad in today’s Harvard Crimson, arguing that university president Drew Faust “sullies” her own reputation and “smears Harvard’s good name” by serving on the board of directors of Stapl...
March 5, 2015
American Postal Workers Union Assembles Team of Experts To Oppose Staples-Office Depot Merger
Washington – The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) announced today that the 200,000–member union, with the assistance of the AFL-CIO, has engaged a team of financial advisors, lawyers and economists to challenge the merger between Staples and Offi...
February 17, 2015
Postal Workers and USPS to Open Negotiations Thurs. Feb. 19 at Pivotal Time for the Postal Service
WASHINGTON – Contract talks between the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and the U.S. Postal Service for a new contract start Thursday, Feb 19. This will be the first time in four-and-a-half years that APWU and postal management have bargained fo...
February 10, 2015
A ‘Grand Alliance’ of More than 60 National Organizations Advocates Expanded Public Postal Services; Opposes Service Cuts, Privatization
WASHINGTON—Sixty-three national organizations have formed “A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service.” A Feb. 12 news conference will present advocates for improved, public postal services and the premiere of a 2-minute video, featuring ac...
February 4, 2015
American Postal Workers Union to “Vigorously Oppose” Staples/Office Depot Merger
Washington – The American Postal Workers Union announced today that the 200,000–member organization will “vigorously oppose” the merger between Staples and Office Depot. “We will urge the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to bl...
February 1, 2015
Statement by Mark Dimondstein President, American Postal Workers Union, on New Postmaster General Megan Brennan
Postmaster General Megan Brennan begins her new job at a pivotal moment in the history of the U.S. Postal Service. We call on her to take steps to strengthen the Postal Service. That means taking full advantage of the boom in e-commerce and expanding...
January 19, 2015
Statement by APWU President Mark Dimondstein on Campaign for Postal Banking and State of the Dream Report: Underbanked and Overcharged
As we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today, it is important to remember that the fight for civil rights included a call for economic justice. Nearly 50 years later, economic injustice is still the reality for the vast majority of wo...
January 19, 2015
New Coalition, ‘Campaign for Postal Banking,’ Launches with Strong Support from Financial Reform Groups and Labor Unions
Expanding Low-Cost Financial Services through the United States Postal Service is a Way to Put More Money into the Pockets of Low-Wage Workers and to Provide Banking to Americans in Rural and Urban Areas with Few Banking Options United for a Fair Eco...
January 6, 2015
Dimondstein Statement on Postmaster General’s Remarks to the National Press Club and his Verbal Attack on APWU
January 5, 2015
Dimondstein Statement on Lower Service Standards This Week
Where is it? Why hasn’t it arrived? Beginning this week, these questions will be asked by millions of Americans who will wonder why their prescription drugs, their church bulletin, their paycheck, and other important correspondence haven’t been deli...
November 14, 2014
Statement by APWU President Mark Dimondstein on Announcement That Patrick Donahoe Is Stepping Down as Postmaster General of the United States
Today’s announcement that Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is stepping down is welcome news. Over the summer, delegates to the American Postal Workers Union national convention voted unanimously for his resignation. We hope that the next Postmaste...
November 13, 2014
Postal Workers to Deliver Message – ‘Stop Delaying America’s Mail’
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and the USPS Board of Governors, the board that oversees the U.S. Postal Service, are poised to make devastating cuts in service to the American people – cuts so severe that they would forever damage the U.S. Postal...
October 22, 2014
Postal Workers Union: Harvard President Should Stop Deal that Outsources Postal Services to Staples or Resign from Staples Board
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. – The Harvard Crimson today features a full-page advertisement calling on Harvard President Drew Faust “to do the right thing or resign.” The right course of action, the American Postal Workers Union says, is to use her influence to...