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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...
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
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...
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
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 11, 2015
Postal Unions Oppose Fast Track
In a joint letter to members of the House of Representatives, the presidents of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and APWU expressed opposition to the “Fast Track” trade bill pending before the Congress. Voting on the measure is expected to take pla...
News Article | June 10, 2015
Contract Mediation Gets Underway
Representatives of the APWU and USPS held an introductory meeting 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 McKinnon and staff met...
News Article | June 9, 2015
Postal Unions Ask President To Designate July 26 ‘Postal Heritage Day’
The four postal unions have asked the White House to issue a Presidential Proclamation designating July 26, the agency’s 240th birthday, “Postal Heritage Day.” The Postal Service was established on July 26, 1775, when an act of the Second Continental Congress created the United States Post Office De...
News Article | June 8, 2015
Postal Retirees May be Affected by OPM Data Breach
Postal retirees may be among those affected by a breach in the computer system of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Retirees Department Director Judy Beard reports. OPM announced June 4 that the records of 4 million current and former federal employees were compromised in a cyber attack the...
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,...