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News Article | March 1, 2016
‘Grand Alliance’ to Hold Field Hearings
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) For the past year, A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service (AGA) has been sounding the alarm that our national treasure, the US Postal Service, is under attack.
News Article | March 1, 2016
Augusta Thomas, Civil Rights, Labor Leader Honored
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Above: The original Greensboro sit-in participants. Insert, l-r: AFGE President J. David Cox, Dimondstein, Ms. Thomas, and museum founders Skip Alston and Earl Jones. Augusta Thomas, an 80+ year-old...
News Article | March 1, 2016
A Chance for Change in 2016
Thousands of APWU members took part in the 2014 convention. Get involved and join the fight for justice. (This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) This year there is so much at stake for apwu members. This is a presidential election year, a...
News Article | March 1, 2016
Facing Our Future Head On
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) In addition to fighting for a good, fair, workable contract, there are a number of issues facing us.
News Article | March 1, 2016
Building a Democracy for the 21st Century
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) "Our democracy is under siege,” declares the website of the Democracy Initiative. The group is dedicated to ending the unprecedented influence of big money in politics and increasing voter participat...
News Article | March 1, 2016
Building a Democracy for the 21st Century
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) "Our democracy is under siege,” declares the website of the Democracy Initiative. The group is dedicated to ending the unprecedented influence of big money in politics and increasing voter participat...
News Article | March 1, 2016
India Will Implement Postal Banking To Better Serve Remote Residents
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) India Post is planning to implement postal banking later this year, in order to better serve residents in rural and remote areas. As part of the plan, India Post opened ATMs in some states in 2014.
News Article | March 1, 2016
India Will Implement Postal Banking To Better Serve Remote Residents
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) India Post is planning to implement postal banking later this year, in order to better serve residents in rural and remote areas. As part of the plan, India Post opened ATMs in some states in 2014.
News Article | February 29, 2016
APWU Joins Democracy Initiative
Five years ago the “Citizens United” Supreme Court ruling unleashed unlimited, and often secret, corporate cash into the political process and elections. Now just 158 families will contribute over 50 percent of the billions being spent on the 2016 presidential election cycle. Just two anti-union bil...
News Article | February 29, 2016
APWU Joins Democracy Initiative
Five years after the “Citizens United” Supreme Court ruling unleashed unlimited and often secret corporate cash into the political process and elections, and with voter suppression on the rise, the APWU has joined the “Democracy Initiative,” a network of over 60 national organizations that seek to r...
News Article | February 29, 2016
APWU Joins Democracy Initiative
Five years ago the “Citizens United” Supreme Court ruling unleashed unlimited, and often secret, corporate cash into the political process and elections. Now just 158 families will contribute over 50 percent of the billions being spent on the 2016 presidential election cycle. Just two anti-union bil...
News Article | February 29, 2016
APWU Joins Democracy Initiative
Five years after the “Citizens United” Supreme Court ruling unleashed unlimited and often secret corporate cash into the political process and elections, and with voter suppression on the rise, the APWU has joined the “Democracy Initiative,” a network of over 60 national organizations that seek to r...
News Article | February 29, 2016
Women Workers Defy Their Boss and Win a Union
New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug, right foreground, walks a picket line supporting striking Farah workers in Houston on Feb. 10, 1973. (This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Factory boss Willie Farah said he’d rather be dead than see hi...
News Article | February 29, 2016
Women Workers Defy Their Boss and Win a Union
New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug, right foreground, walks a picket line supporting striking Farah workers in Houston on Feb. 10, 1973. (This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Factory boss Willie Farah said he’d rather be dead than see hi...
News Article | February 29, 2016
The U.S. Mail Is NOT for Sale
1. Why is there a boycott of Staples? Because Staples and the U.S. Postal Service cut a deal setting up phony “post offices” inside their stores.