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News Article | August 5, 2025
PMG’s Demands: Bad for Postal Workers
The Postmaster General and the USPS are lobbying Congress. What are they asking legislators to do? Reduce letter delivery to five days per week; Deny new hires a “defined benefit” retirement (pension) plan; Force injured workers into a poverty retirement. If these points look familiar, they should!...
News Article | August 5, 2025
Another Biased Report Calls for Privatizing Mail Processing
Another conservative think tank has jumped on the “privatize everything but the last mile” bandwagon, reports APWU Executive Vice President Greg Bell. A June 2013 report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation offers a plan that would "privatize all postal operations except delivery,...
News Article | August 5, 2025
e-Team Report, July 1, 2011
Benefits, Pay and Ultimately Postal Jobs Threatened with Introduction of Issa Bill Sixteen U.S. Senators Call for Department of Justice Review of New State Voter ID Laws Over One Million Signatures Delivered to Ohio Secretary of State To Put a Referendum on November Ballot to Repeal SB5
News Article | August 5, 2025
Survey Says: Most Americans Oppose Plant Closures
I have always been skeptical of surveys conducted by the Postal Service, because they seem to be designed to generate responses that would justify cutting service, closing postal facilities, or reducing employees’ pay. But the results of a survey commissioned by the USPS Office of Inspector General...
News Article | August 5, 2025
e-Team Report, March 2, 2012
Cutbacks at the U.S. Postal Service Kicking the Transportation Bill Down the Road If Postal Service Ax Delivery Standards, Will Elections Suffer?
News Article | August 5, 2025
e-Team Report, July 8, 2011
APWU to Launch TV Ad Campaign to Correct Deception about need for USPS “Bailout” along with Kicking Off Organizing Drive H.R. 1351 Cosponsor List Continues to Grow However, More Cosponsors Still Needed! NLRB Proposed Rule Changes Board of Governors Member Set to Resign
News Article | August 5, 2025
e-Team Report, March 9, 2012
Transportation Trouble Postal Reform USPS Makes Call to Halt Closures During Election Season
News Article | August 5, 2025
e-Team Report, Aug. 26, 2011
What Cannot be Won at the Bargaining Table by the Postal Service, Could be Changed on Capitol Hill There is a Solution other than Withdrawing from Federal Benefit Plans League of Women Voters Files Suit in WI; PA Secretary of Commonwealth Backs Voter ID Bill at Statehouse
News Article | August 5, 2025
e-Team Report, May 17, 2013
Legislative & Political Director Myke Reid Announces Retirement, Gary Kloepfer Accepts Director Position Postal Reform Bills Gain Co-Sponsors, More Support Needed One week left for ‘We the People’ Petition to White House
News Article | August 5, 2025
e-Team Report, March 16, 2012
APWU Airs New Round of Television Ads Transportation in the House AFL-CIO Denounces State Voter ID Laws
News Article | August 5, 2025
e-Team Report, Sept. 2, 2011
President Guffey to Testify before Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs Contact Your Member of the House Today! Republican Leaders Intend to Repeal Labor Regulations and Labor Board Issue Multiple Decisions Rolling Stone Article about War on Voting and Arizona Challenges Voti...
News Article | August 5, 2025
e-Team Report, May 10, 2013
The Postal Service Protection Act Gains Bipartisan Support Postal Losses in Second Quarter Primarily Due to Prefund Mandate Compensatory Time Bill Passes House, Draws Criticism from Obama Administration and Worker Advocates House Bill Takes Aim at FEHBP Republicans Delay Obama Nominee for Secretary...
News Article | August 5, 2025
As Deadline Nears, APWU Keeps Up the Fight
Time is running out. We are quickly approaching the May 15 expiration of the moratorium on the closure and consolidation of mail processing plants and post offices. The moratorium is intended to give Congress the opportunity to pass a bill to address the Postal Service’s financial crisis — without d...
News Article | August 5, 2025
e-Team Report, Sept. 9, 2011
Sept. 27 Day of Action President Guffey Testifies Before Senate Committee Proposed Postal Service Layoffs Would Significantly Impact Minorities, Veterans Governor Lynch’s Veto Sustained in New Hampshire / Ohio to Mail Absentee Ballot Applications to Every Voter in 2012 but not in 2011
News Article | August 5, 2025
The Long and Winding Road to Real Reform
Are you ready for a busy summer? I hope so, because it looks like APWU members will need to spend much of the season persuading members of Congress that enacting customer-friendly, worker-friendly postal reform legislation is absolutely necessary — and urgent. Although the Senate passed a bipartisan...