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News Article | June 23, 2015

Members Sport Union Gear

In mid-June, members of the New York Metro Area Local working at the Times Square Station proudly displayed  Good Service! Good Jobs!  Contract Now!  buttons. Wear union gear every Thursday! For more photos, click here.

News Article | June 23, 2015

USPS Seeks to Derail Efforts to Restore Service Standards

The Postal Service has signaled it will try to derail a measure approved by the House Appropriations Committee on June 17 to restore postal service standards to the levels that were in place on July 1, 2012. The committee’s vote would rescind the lower service standards the USPS implemented on Jan....

News Article | June 22, 2015

OPM Announces Second Major Security Breach

The recent announcement by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) of a second major breach of data on “current and former employees of the federal government whose records OPM manages” could affect many APWU members, said Retirees Department Director Judy Beard. “OPM manages the records of postal...

News Article | June 21, 2015

e-Team Report, June 21, 2015

Call Before Tuesday! Tell Your Senators to Stop ‘Fast Tracking’ a Bad Trade Deal Like the Zombie apocalypse, legislation that would “fast track” a bad trade deal has risen from the dead. Workers, environmentalists and other progressives thwarted passage of the package on June 12, when the House vote...

News Article | June 19, 2015

Tell Your Senators to Stop ‘Fast Tracking’ a Bad Trade Deal

Like the Zombie apocalypse, legislation that would “fast track” a bad trade deal has risen from the dead. Workers, environmentalists and other progressives thwarted passage of the package on June 12, when the House voted against a companion bill that was essential to passage of the trade deal. But t...

News Article | June 19, 2015

In a Setback for America’s Retirees, Fast Track Passes U.S. House

More than 70 delegates from more than 20 affiliated organizations attended the Biennial NCARA Convention on Tuesday in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Fiesta, state Attorney General Roy B. Cooper and North Carolina AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer MaryBe McMillan were among those who spoke. At the conventio...

Press Release | June 18, 2015

APWU to Hold Briefing Immediately Following June 19 Office Depot Shareholders Meeting: Why Federal Regulators Should Block The Staples/Office Depot Merger

Union to Detail – for the First Time – Its Meeting With FTC Legal Team Reviewing Merger

Press Release | June 17, 2015

House Appropriations Committee Approval of Amendment to Restore Postal Service Standards an ‘Important Step Forward’

Statement by Mark Dimondstein, President, American Postal Workers Union

News Article | June 17, 2015

e-Team Report, June 17, 2015

House Committee Votes To Restore Overnight Mail Ever since the Postal Service acted in January 2015 to cut their service standards from 2012 levels, America’s once prompt mail service has fallen off a cliff. Citizens and businesses alike are feeling the sting when their bill payments, medicines, new...

News Article | June 17, 2015

House Committee Approves Amendment To Restore Postal Service Standards

The House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment on June 17 to restore postal service standards, in a bipartisan vote of 26-23. Six Republicans joined all of the committee’s Democrats to endorse the measure, which was introduced by Rep. Chakah Fattah (D-PA).  The legislation would rescind th...

News Article | June 17, 2015

Members Only Section to Undergo Maintenance

Due to maintenance work, the Members Only section of www.apwu.org may experience some disruption on beginning on Friday, June 19, at 6:00 p.m. EST and lasting through early Saturday evening. We regret the inconvenience.

News Article | June 17, 2015

Stop Staples Campaign Keeps on Rolling Through Pennsylvania

Keep on truckin’! Members of the Western Pennsylvania Postal Workers Solidarity Committee protested in front of a Staples store in New Kensington, PA, on June 14. 

News Article | June 16, 2015

Postal Unions Object to Administration Proposal to Reduce Compensation to Injured Workers

In a June 15 letter, the presidents of the four postal unions asked the Department of Labor (DOL) and the White House to withdraw a proposal that would reduce compensation benefits to injured workers and urged the administration instead to work with federal employee unions and their allies in Congre...

News Article | June 12, 2015

Contract Mediation Gets Underway

Representatives of the APWU and USPS met with officials of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) on June 9 to begin mediation on a new collective bargaining agreement. APWU President Mark Dimondstein, Industrial Relations Director Tony D. McKinnon and staff met with FMCS Acting Direc...

News Article | June 12, 2015

House Rejects Bad Trade Deal

Workers, environmentalists and other progressives won a major victory on June 12 when a bipartisan coalition of House members torpedoed a trade bill backed by the White House. The labor movement and others mounted a major campaign to defeat “fast tracking” of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), whi...