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News Article | September 27, 2011
Guffey to Appear on ‘The Ed Show’ On MSNBC Tonight
APWU President Cliff Guffey will appear on The Ed Show on MSNBC tonight, Sept. 27, at 10 p.m. EDT.
News Article | September 26, 2011
APWU Calls on Rep. Issa To Correct Misstatements
APWU President Cliff Guffey has called on Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) to correct inaccurate statements he made onWashington Journal, a public affairs program that airs on C-SPAN.
News Article | September 25, 2011
Last Minute Preparations Underway For Rallies to Save America’s Postal Service
APWU locals are gearing up for the nationwide day of action to Save America’s Postal Service on Tuesday, Sept. 27, from 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., at locations across the country.
News Article | September 21, 2011
Issa’s ‘Postal Destruction’ Bill Passes House Subcommittee
A bill that would destroy the Postal Service as we know it passed a House subcommittee on Sept. 21 by a vote of eight to five, along party lines.
News Article | September 20, 2011
APWU Praises Obama Effort, But Long-Term Solution is Needed
President Obama submitted a deficit-reduction package to a special joint committee of Congress on Sept. 19, which includes several proposals intended to address the Postal Service’s financial crisis.
News Article | September 19, 2011
House Subcommittee to Vote on Issa Ross Bill
A House subcommittee will vote Sept. 21 on a bill that the APWU has denounced as “a reckless assault on postal services and postal employees.”
News Article | September 16, 2011
APWU Launches Phase 2 Of Television Ad Campaign
The APWU has launched Phase 2 of its television ad campaign, in conjunction with the National Association of Letter Carriers and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, APWU President Cliff Guffey announced.
News Article | September 14, 2011
H.R. 1351 Gains Attention on Capitol Hill
Saving the Postal Service from financial collapse seems to be getting attention on Capitol Hill: H.R. 1351 — a bill supported by postal unions, management associations, and the mailing industry to address the USPS financial crisis — has become one of the top three bills searched for on the Library o...
News Article | September 8, 2011
Postal Unions Join Forces To Save America’s Postal Service
The APWU has joined forces with the three other postal unions to designate Sept. 27 as a day of action to Save America’s Postal Service.
News Article | September 6, 2011
Congress Must Save Postal Service
Testifying before a Senate panel on Sept. 6, APWU President Cliff Guffey urged Congress to take action to prevent a collapse of the Postal Service, and he denounced USPS proposals to abrogate the union’s Collective Bargaining Agreement.
News Article | September 2, 2011
Spending Taxpayers’ Money to Bash the USPS?
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who likes to portray himself as a fierce opponent of wasting taxpayers’ money, has created a slick, high-tech Web site that bashes the Postal Service, using — you guessed it — taxpayers’ money.
News Article | August 22, 2011
Save USPS, Stop Layoffs, Support H.R. 1351
With headlines predicting the imminent demise of the Postal Service — and management brazenly exploiting the crisis to attack postal employees — the APWU is asking union members to contact their members of Congress and urge them to take action to save the USPS and protect our jobs.
News Article | August 12, 2011
USPS Seeks Legislation To Allow Layoffs, End Federal Benefits
APWU President Cliff Guffey has condemned Postal Service legislative proposals that would permit the USPS to layoff 120,000 employees and remove postal workers from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and from federal retirement programs.
News Article | August 4, 2011
Tea Party Building Support for Issa Bill
“Tea Party” groups are building public and congressional support for H.R. 2309, legislation sponsored in the U.S. House of Representative by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Dennis Ross (R-FL) that APWU President Cliff Guffey has called “a reckless assault on postal workers and the Postal Service.”
News Article | July 18, 2011
APWU Rejects Issa’s Call to Cancel Ad Campaign
The APWU has rejected a call from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) to cancel a union-sponsored television ad that has been airing on CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News.