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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...
News Article | June 12, 2015
A Temporary Victory for Seniors, Bad Trade Deal Fails to Advance in House
The U.S. House of Representatives failed to advance a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Fast Track authority legislative package on Friday, handing retirees a temporary victory by a vote of 126-302. President Barack Obama's bid for fast-track trade authority had narrowly cleared a procedural hurdle on...