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News Article | September 14, 2025
e-Team Report, June 21, 2013
Biased Report Calls for USPS Privatization Customers Notice Delays in Mail Delivery as P&DCs Close Time to Capture Lost Opportunities Capitol Hill Post Offices Are Slated for Closure, Rep. Issa Praises Announcement The Postal Service and Privacy
News Article | September 14, 2025
Appreciation Barbeques
The APWU Troop Appreciation Barbeque has become an annual tradition at the Mologne House. APWU members staff a "moon bounce" and operate carnival games for children who are visiting family members at the rehabilitation facility. They serve refreshing water-ice, carve a 100-pound roasted pig, and pas...
News Article | September 14, 2025
National Reassessment Processes
There are two USPS National Reassessment Processes (NRPs), each with a unique set of guidelines. It’s helpful to understand the differences.
News Article | September 14, 2025
Dispute Over Reassignment of APWU Bargaining-Unit Employees to Other Craft’s Vacant Assignments
The APWU initiated a dispute over whether there is a disagreement between the parties regarding Article 12.5.C.5.a(4) or similar provisions of the National Agreement, and applicable provisions of handbooks and manuals, concerning reassignment of APWU bargaining-unit employees to City Letter Carrier...
News Article | September 14, 2025
The APWU: Still Fighting for You!
News Article | September 14, 2025
Supreme Court Sides with One Percent in Home Health Care Case
On Monday, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision that makes it harder for home care workers to deliver quality care for their clients. The case, Harris v. Quinn, involves home health care workers in Illinois who are paid through Medicaid but primarily supervised by home care recipients. In a major...
News Article | September 14, 2025
Operation Teddy Care
There is probably nothing harder for a small child than being separated from a parent or someone they care about, and there is nothing as comforting as a soft, cuddly teddy bear. Children of U.S. troops make a significant sacrifice that too often is not acknowledged. Let them know you understand and...
News Article | September 14, 2025
Do You Suffer From Sleep Apnea?
Sleep apnea is a disorder that occurs when a person’s breathing is briefly interrupted during sleep. Breathing pauses can last between 10 to 20 seconds and can occur frequently during the night. Chronic sleep deprivation from sleep apnea causes daytime sleepiness, slow reflexes, poor concentration,...
News Article | September 14, 2025
Union Wins Major Attendance Case
In an award issued Jan. 28, 2005, Arbitrator Shyam Das sustained the APWU's arguments on two of three outstanding issues in a significant attendance case.
News Article | September 14, 2025
Management Publishes New Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy
The Postal Service has finally published a new Drug and Alcohol Testing policy, Management Instruction PO-720-2010-1 [PDF], which became effective Dec. 31, 2009. We first announced an agreement with management on a new drug testing policy in March, but, not surprisingly, our counterparts in manageme...
News Article | September 14, 2025
Expectations Filled With Hope
While we shared memorable moments at events with friends and family in 2008, almost all of us will look back at 2008 as a year when we survived numerous personal challenges — not only those that come with aging, but periods of stress and/or frustration resulting from the economy and the government’s...
News Article | September 14, 2025
Organizing at DHL Subsidiary: Activists In It for the Long Haul
APWU representatives and activist workers at ABX Air, a subsidiary of DHL, are settling in for a long campaign to organize approximately 3,000 ground workers at the global delivery company’s Wilmington, OH, plant.
News Article | September 14, 2025
e-Team Report, June 27, 2011
APWU, Mailing Groups Urge Legislators to Support H.R. 1351 GOP Presidential Hopefuls Sound off in Favor of Right To Work "for less" in Presidential Debate Maine Ends Same Day Voter Registration, Other States Working Toward Voter ID Requirement Congresswoman Giffords to Return from Hospital
News Article | September 14, 2025
APWU Vows to Stop the Great Postal Giveaway
(This article appears in the January-February 2014 edition of The American Postal Worker.) In a deal that has been in the works at least since March 2012, the USPS announced in November that it was launching a pilot program to place postal retail units in more than 80 Staples stores in four states:...
News Article | September 14, 2025
The Challenges We Will Meet In Collective Bargaining
The APWU will officially open negotiations for a new National Agreement with the Postal Service sometime in August, approximately 90 days prior to the current contract’s expiration on Nov. 20, 2010, and just days after the conclusion of our 20th biennial national convention. It is essential that at...