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News Article | September 10, 2025
The Alliance Releases Annual Voting Record Rating Congress
On Thursday, 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 10 key votes in both the Senate and the House and assigns a “Pro-Retiree” score for each member of...
News Article | September 10, 2025
Appeals Pending in Important Cases Affecting Preference-Eligible Veterans
Any veterans' preference-eligible employee who gets a notice that his or her duty assignment has been abolished and that he or she will become unassigned, should immediately ask a manager whether there are duty assignments available in the same level.
News Article | September 10, 2025
Maintenance Selection System & Non-MSS Positions
There are two categories of positions in the Maintenance Craft – MSS positions and Non-MSS positions — with a different application process for each category. The "pecking order" for filling positions is the same. (See JCIM, Article 38, Order for Filling Vacant Maintenance Positions). Some common MS...
News Article | September 10, 2025
Earn a Business Degree Online
Union members who are interested in starting a business, improving the performance of an existing business, or who are simply interested in acquiring business knowledge can do so by earning an online Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration from the National Labor College.
News Article | September 10, 2025
Preserve Private-Sector Jobs in Southern Ohio
An APWU drive to organize several hundred workers at DHL’s ABX “hub” in southwestern Ohio has shifted gears: The APWU is now at the forefront of a community-based campaign to try to preserve approximately 7,000 jobs.
News Article | September 10, 2025
e-Team Report, April 5, 2013
Congress Back In Session Next Week, Look for New Co-Sponsors To Postal Bills Vacancies and Retirements in the 113th Congress A Look Ahead to 2014 Elections
News Article | September 10, 2025
Union Wins Debt Collection Act Case
In a recent national-level award, Arbitrator Linda Byars ruled that the ELM 460 provision allowing for collection of postal debts by the Postal Service in increments greater than 15% of an employee’s disposable pay or 20% of the employee’s biweekly gross pay per pay period (whichever is lower) viola...
News Article | September 10, 2025
e-Team Report, April 20, 2012
Tell Your Senators to Support Key Amendments to S. 1789
News Article | September 10, 2025
APWU Nurses Advised That Contract – Though Expired – Still Offers Protection
As the bargaining team for APWU-represented nurses prepares for interest arbitration hearings beginning in late March, Support Services Division Director Bill Manley assured the unit’s members that the terms of their expired contract remain in effect.
News Article | September 10, 2025
e-Team Report, April 26, 2012
Postal Reform Passes First Hurdle - The Senate
News Article | September 10, 2025
Nurses Interest-Arbitration Scheduled
Arguments over disputed contract issues for postal nurses will be heard by an interest arbitrator beginning March 23. The National Postal Professional Nurses-APWU contract expired Aug. 20, 2007, and the union and the Postal Service agreed to submit it to interest arbitration late last summer after n...
News Article | September 10, 2025
AFLAC Specified Health Event and Cancer Insurance
To help union members protect their future against catastrophic illnesses, the APWU is pleased to offer Cancer Personal Indemnity and other Specified Health Event insurance coverage. These comprehensive, affordable benefits, made available through American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (...
News Article | September 10, 2025
Privatizers Say: Contract Out Everything But Delivery
In January, a group of “postal industry thought leaders” published a paper that advocates contracting out all postal functions except delivery — a plan that is often referred to as “the last mile strategy.” The paper, titled “Restructuring the U.S. Postal Service: The Case for a Hybrid Public-Priva...
News Article | September 10, 2025
Long-Term-Care Insurance
We appreciate our independence. However, as we age, many of us will need help performing everyday activities such as dressing, bathing, and moving from room to room. Our memory may deteriorate to the point that it impacts our ability to reason.
News Article | September 10, 2025
Postal Workers: Now is the Time to Get Involved!
For many years most of our membership has left too much of the fighting for jobs, better wages and our rights and benefits to stewards and officers. It’s not enough. We all have to do more. Times have changed. We have fought off privatization for years. We have come up against a government that has...