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News Article | November 14, 2025

Developing Union Leaders

In Detroit this summer, the union, in partnership with Wayne State University, offered a week of “Leadership Training for APWU Presidents.”

News Article | November 14, 2025

Postal Service Issues New Safety Talk on Recognizing Suspicious Materials

The Postal Service has issued a new safety talk concerning Suspicious Mail and Unknown Powders or Substances to be given on Friday, October 6, 2006.  This is one of a three-part series to be given each first Friday of October, November and December of 2006.

News Article | November 14, 2025

e-Team Report, June 30, 2012

Stop H.R. 2309, Vote NO! TV Ad Editorial on USPS Finances Changing of the Guard

News Article | November 14, 2025

Health Insurance: A Must Read

The U.S. Postal Service is plotting to take away our health insurance and replace it with a USPS-sponsored healthcare plan that is outside of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP).

News Article | November 14, 2025

Testing Issues Resolved For Motor Vehicle Mechanics

The APWU and USPS have settled several issues involving which exams MVS employees must take to qualify for positions that were upgraded in 2001. The disputes arose when the Postal Service issued new qualification standards for the upgraded positions.

News Article | November 14, 2025

Recognizing, Avoiding Burnout

Burnout is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It can occur when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands.

News Article | November 14, 2025

USPS Districts Currently Under Phase 2 Of the National Reassessment Process

The Postal Service continues to implement Phase 2 of the National Reassessment Process (NRP) in USPS Districts across the country. There is no set schedule that establishes a date when a particular District will begin Phase 2.  

News Article | November 14, 2025

Happy Grandparents Day!

Sunday, September 7 is Grandparents Day. In Ohio, Alliance members are celebrating the day with an event in Cortland. In Illinois, Alliance members in the East St. Louis area are celebrating the holiday today with Rep. William Enyart.

News Article | November 14, 2025

Operation Care Package

Care packages provide warm messages and familiarities from home. Packages are sent to servicemen and women serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recipients include members of all branches of the military, from everywhere in the US. We also forward care packages to APWU members or their loved...

News Article | November 14, 2025

Up Next: Preparing for Local Negotiations

The 2010-2015 collective bargaining agreement has been ratified by the membership, and it is now time to move to the enforcement phase of our new contract. This agreement has many sweeping changes, and there is much work to do.

News Article | November 14, 2025

Dispute: Non-Traditional Full-Time Assignments in Function 5 and Function 7

This Step 4 dispute protests Postal Service instructions to the field authorizing the creation of Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) assignments in Finance (Function 5) and in Bulk Mail (Function 7).

News Article | November 14, 2025

Summary of Regulations Governing COPA Solicitations

Summary of Regulations Governing COPA Solicitations

News Article | November 14, 2025

Waste Management

In the January-February issue, the regional coordinator’s article addressed the Postmaster General’s DRIVE (Delivering, Results, Innovation, Value, and Efficiency) program and what management was planning for you — including more consolidations, post office centralizations, duty assignment adjustmen...

News Article | November 14, 2025

Reviews Can Lead to Upgrades

Veterans who believe they received an inaccurate disability rating may be eligible to have their award reviewed by the Physical Disability Board of Review. The PDBR was created to address inconsistencies in disability ratings among service branches to ensure accuracy and fairness. The board reviews...

News Article | November 14, 2025

Award on Applicability of TCOLA to Promotion Pay Anomaly Payments [pdf]

This is an NALC case in which the APWU intervened. The issue was whether the Postal Service's failure to pay Territorial COLA (TCOLA) as part of the promotion pay anomaly payments due under the June 13, 1990 Memorandum of Settlement of case number H7C-NAC-39 was a violation of that settlement.