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News Article | November 23, 2011
e-Team Report, Nov. 23, 2011
Senator Sanders’s Bill Looks To Fix the USPS Financial Crisis ACI Survey Says Overwhelming Majority Of Consumers Oppose Closing Facilities Postal Turkey Talk
News Article | November 21, 2011
Sen. Sanders’ Bill Addresses USPS Crisis
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) recently introduced the Postal Service Protection Act (S. 1853), a bill that would go a long way toward resolving the USPS financial crisis, Legislative and Political Director Myke Reid reports.
News Article | November 16, 2011
Vote No on H.R. 2309
A bill that would destroy the Postal Service as we know it was approved by a key congressional committee on Oct. 13, and could come up for a vote in the full House at any time. ALSO: The Collective Bargaining Agreement obligates the Postal Service to make “every effort” to create desirable duty assi...
News Article | November 9, 2011
Senate Panel Approves Postal Legislation
A Senate committee approved postal legislation that would severely weaken the USPS, by a vote of 11 to 6 on Nov. 9. ALSO: Beginning Nov. 23, 2011, mandatory overtime will end for many APWU-represented employees.
News Article | November 4, 2011
Postal Unions Honor Military Veterans, Oppose Destructive Bill in New TV Ad
The APWU has launched a new TV ad that salutes our nation’s “real life heroes” and points out that a bill pending in the House of Representatives would force the USPS to fire tens of thousands of military veterans. ALSO: The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will vote on...
News Article | November 3, 2011
Senators Introduce Postal Legislation
The 21st Century Postal Service Act, introduced by four senators on Nov. 2, provides short-term financial relief, but also would inflict long-term damage to the nation’s mail system, President Cliff Guffey said.
News Article | November 2, 2011
Senators Announce Postal Bill
Four U.S. senators unveiled postal legislation on Nov. 2 that will have important implications for APWU members.
News Article | October 31, 2011
Battle Over USPS Future Enters Critical Period
The battle over the future of the Postal Service — and our jobs — has reached a critical stage: Key senators are meeting behind closed doors in an effort to produce a compromise bill to address the USPS financial crisis. It is likely that any proposals they develop will be submitted to the congressi...
News Article | October 28, 2011
Union Launches Petition Drive To Save America’s Postal Service
President Guffey is asking APWU members to collect signatures on a petition [PDF] to Congress urging senators and representatives to oppose plans to close post offices, shutter mail processing facilities, and drastically degrade service to the American people.
News Article | October 17, 2011
Video of Union’s Fight to Save USPS Now Available
A video of the union’s fight to save America’s Postal Service can be viewed online.
News Article | October 14, 2011
House Panel Approves Postal ‘Destruction’ Bill
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform approved an amended version of the Issa-Ross postal bill on Oct. 13 by a vote of 22-18.
News Article | October 11, 2011
House Committee to Vote Thursday on Issa Bill
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will vote Oct. 13 on a bill that the APWU has denounced as “a reckless assault on postal services and postal employees.”
News Article | October 6, 2011
Union Challenges Proposed Changes to USPS Service Standards
The APWU is challenging proposed changes to USPS service standards that would result from a major reduction in the number of mail processing facilities.
News Article | September 30, 2011
‘Save the Postal Service’
They chanted. They cheered. Donning red, white and blue “Save America’s Postal Service” t-shirts, postal workers and concerned citizens carried signs and marched in front of congressional offices across the country to tell the real story about the Postal Service’s financial crisis and to build suppo...
News Article | September 27, 2011
Postal Workers Across the Country Say, ‘Save America’s Postal Service’
Postal workers and supporters held rallies at 492 locations on Sept. 27 to Save America’s Postal Service.