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News Article | June 5, 2015
Assistance for Union Plus Program Participants Impacted by Texas and Oklahoma Storms
Union members living in areas impacted by the recent severe storms and widespread flooding in Texas and Oklahoma, and who participate in Union Plus programs may be eligible for financial assistance. More than 20 people were killed as a result of the storms and in the Houston area alone more than 4,...
News Article | June 3, 2015
Wear APWU Shirts, Buttons, Caps and Gear
As the union prepare for mediation on a new collective bargaining agreement the role of rank-and-file members remains critical, APWU President Mark Dimondstein says. “Your continued involvement can make a difference as we move to mediation and possibly to arbitration,” he said. “I urge every member...
News Article | June 3, 2015
Kenny Wilson
Kenneth D. Wilson, former APWU Clerk Craft Director, passed away on June 1. He was 82.
News Article | June 2, 2015
The People Demand: Show Us The Text!
APWU Member Arrion Brown being barred from reviewing the text of TPP Trade Deal. If you want to know what’s in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade bill, you can go to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and read it for yourself. That’s what the Obama administration said about the tra...
News Article | June 2, 2015
Getting Ready for 2015 All-Craft Conference
Plans are underway for the All-Craft Conference, which will be held in Las Vegas, Oct. 12-14, 2015. For more information about the event and to register, click here. In accordance with the APWU Constitution and Bylaws, resolutions adopted by locals and/or state organizations will be considered by de...
News Article | June 2, 2015
APWU, Sister Postal Unions Win Right to Bargain Over Cyber Intrusions
In a precedent-setting agreement approved by the National Labor Relations Board, the APWU and its sister postal unions won the right to bargain with the Postal Service over a massive data security breach that took place in 2014. The historic May 19 settlement marks a win for unions in a new area of...
News Article | June 1, 2015
Data Posted on Postmasters, Supervisors Performing Craft Work
A key feature of the Global Settlement Remedy Agreement, which was signed on Dec. 5, 2014, were provisions making it easier for union representatives to monitor when postmasters and supervisors perform bargaining unit work in excess of the hours allowed under the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Th...
News Article | June 1, 2015
Hocking Our Heritage – At a Discount
Murals depicting our nation's heritage grace the lobbies of many post offices. Here is Stagecouch, Overland Express and Riverboat Carrying U.S. Mail, by Valdimir Rousseff, which has been displayed in the Reedly, CA, Main Post Office since 1935. (This article first appeared in the July-August 2015 i...
News Article | June 1, 2015
Fight for 15 Pushes On
George Askew, president of APWU Local 181, along with workers at McKeldin Square. (This article first appeared in the July-August 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) On April 15, hundreds of thousands of workers in 200 cities joined together to make their demands heard: Raise the min...
News Article | May 29, 2015
The Alliance Releases Annual Congressional Voting Record
On Tuesday, the Alliance released its annual report detailing the voting record of every U.S. Representative and Senator on issues important to current and future retirees. The voting record looks at ten key votes in both the Senate and the House and assigns a “Pro-Retiree” score for each member of...
Press Release | May 29, 2015
Proposed Merger Under Fire As Staples Shareholders Meet in North Carolina
Union Outlines Harm to Consumers and Small Business From Planned Office-Supply Monopoly
News Article | May 29, 2015
Tucson Area Local Launches Community, Business Surveys
Tucson Area Local President Connie Nelson-Sadler has worked with elected officials and the business community to launch surveys. The surveys are an effort to provide Tucson residents a platform to share the opinions, impacts and concerns of consolidating Tucson’s mail processing from the Cherrybell...
News Article | May 28, 2015
Call the Contract Hotline to Get Negotiations Updates
APWU President Mark Dimondstein recorded a new Contract Hotline message on the evening of May 27, to inform union members about the outcome of extend negotiations. To hear to the message by phone, dial 1-866-412-8061. To listen online, click here.
News Article | May 28, 2015
USPS Demands Cuts in Pay, Benefits, Job Security
Contract negotiations between the American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service ended without an agreement on May 27. The USPS scuttled any prospect of reaching a deal by insisting on severe cuts in pay and benefits, despite the fact that progress had been made on many non-economic issue...
News Article | May 28, 2015
What Can Union Members Do?
“Our fight for a good contract now enters a new stage, but the role of rank-and-file union members remains critical,” President Dimondstein said. The union is calling on APWU members to make sure management sees our union strength by wearing union gear every Thursday, beginning on June 4. “This is a...