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News Article | March 15, 2023
Meeting Annual Report Deadlines
To ensure local and state union officials meet Department of Labor (DOL) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax deadlines, the Secretary-Treasurer’s department provides training on how to complete and electronically file the required Labor-Management (LM) report and provides the information and IRS...
News Article | March 15, 2023
Who is Keeping Track of Bullying, Sexual Harassment, and Hostile Work Environments?
The USPS has never put forth its best effort to protect postal workers from hostile work environments. Employees often experience management failures to resolve cases. They watch management harassers move from one postal facility to another and these cases are often closed as inconclusive. Now an Of...
News Article | March 15, 2023
Tax Season is Upon Us. But Who Pays Taxes? And How Are They Spent?
Working people, including postal workers, routinely pay taxes. We don’t have massive write-offs, offshore tax havens, untaxed stock incomes, tax avoidance trust funds, or high-priced lawyers. But the billionaire U.S. oligarchs and corporate America do – all used to evade paying their fair share of t...
News Article | January 23, 2023
Questions and Answers: In-Service Examinations, Register & Eligibility Ratings
On Jan. 18, 2023, the parties signed off on national Questions & Answers on the In-Service Examinations, Register and Eligibility Ratings MOU. As a reminder, on an annual basis during the month of March, all career employees have the opportunity to request to be tested for Maintenance Craft eligibil...
News Article | January 17, 2023
Welcome to National Center for Employee Development & Full Per Diem Implementation
In an effort to be proactive and understand firsthand how the union contract’s per diem provisions were being implemented, APWU headquarters maintenance officers traveled to the National Center for Employee Development (NCED) on Nov. 8, 2022, to speak directly with students. The officers also met wi...
News Article | January 17, 2023
Pay Anomalies Continue
The best intentions often have unintended consequences. Past contract negotiations have resulted in various changes to the pay tables in Article 9 for various groups of employees. These achievements were intended to improve the wages and lives of our members, and in almost all cases, they do.We cont...
News Article | January 17, 2023
Burnout: Signs, Symptoms, and Prevention
The last few years dealing with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many people to become overwhelmed and experience burnout. However, many either don’t recognize its symptoms or even know what it is. Burnout is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolong...
News Article | January 17, 2023
Optimism and Action in 2023
I hope our future in 2023 will be blessed with optimism and action. Our continued growth will depend on how we work together to build our locals and states with union activists who are a force to be reckoned with.
News Article | January 17, 2023
New Year, New Officers, Same Commitment!
I am humbled and honored to have been elected Support Services Division Director. My name is Arrion Brown, and I was the Support Services craft director for the Nation’s Capital Southern Maryland Area Local. I will be serving our division along with our newly elected Support Services National Busine...
News Article | January 17, 2023
Monsters Do Exist…
This new year we re-focus on the harassment and bullying by postal monsters. It takes a postal village to take them on. Every part of our union must pursue these beasts!
News Article | January 17, 2023
Renew Our Commitment to APWU
The 118th Congress began on Jan. 3, 2023. We must keep up the pressure on our congressional representatives to achieve our legislative priorities and to protect our federal pensions, benefits, and the Postal Service.
News Article | January 17, 2023
Start 2023 Off Right With a Commitment to Your Health
There are so many things that keep us busy every day, such as work, kids, family, and even illnesses, that it’s sometimes difficult to think of anything else. We tend to put our health on the back burner while we look after those around us. With COVID-19 disrupting our lives, many of us haven’t been...
News Article | January 17, 2023
Starting the Year in Good Financial Shape is the Key
Every new year brings new challenges – nothing we are not able to handle, some larger than we would like. However, we prevail and persevere nonetheless. Starting the new year ensuring all financial and legal requirements are fulfilled is the key. It keeps local and state affiliates from potential pe...
News Article | January 17, 2023
Santa’s Elves are Union Proud – Let’s Spread the Word!
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! I want to thank all of you for once again being the “elves” that brought millions of smiles to people around the world! I say world because residents of the United States rely on our services to send gifts to family and friends around th...
News Article | January 17, 2023
Bulk Mail Tech and Mailer Requirement Clerk MOU & Higher-Level National Dispute
On Nov. 4, 2022, the parties agreed to extend the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Re: Bulk Mail Tech (BMT) and Mailing Requirements Clerk (MRC) Position Qualification. APWU has also filed a national dispute making the assertion that all MRCs should have been paid at the level-8 rate of pay since...