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News Article | August 9, 2025
Pregnancy Discrimination
In 2005, approximately 4,500 charges of pregnancy-based discrimination were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC resolved nearly all of them, and recovered an average of $2,700 per complaint.
News Article | August 9, 2025
e-Team Report, Dec. 6, 2013
The Staples Deal: Postal Service Moves to Privatize Mail Service Letter Carrier Killed After Postal Cuts Create Unsafe Working Conditions APWU Brings the Street Heat Walmart Workers & Labor Groups Protest Poverty Wages on Black Friday From Picket Lines to Ballot Boxes, Workers Are Raising Their Voic...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Arbitrator Rules on USPS Refusal to Compensate Employees for Time Spent on a USPS-provided shuttle
In a decision [PDF] dated Aug. 30, Arbitrator Shyam Das denied the union’s grievance protesting management’s refusal to compensate employees for time spent on a USPS-provided shuttle that transported workers between USPS lodging and a training facility before and after their workdays or during their...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Quality Home Care and Public Sector Unions at Risk in Supreme Court Case
In the coming weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue a ruling in Harris v. Quinn, a case involving the payment of union dues by public-sector home health workers in Illinois. The decision could come as early as next week or as late as the end of June. The case, backed by the anti-union National Ri...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Vietnam Vets and Agent Orange
Vietnam Veterans are now at an age where many have or will develop "adult-onset" or Type II diabetes.
News Article | August 9, 2025
Winterhaven Stand Down
Each year more than 1 million of our nation’s veterans are homeless. This is hardly the thank-you they deserve and hardly the thank-you they have earned. So, this January, the APWU plans to give a hand up to homeless and under served veterans during the Veterans’ Administration’s Winterhaven Stand D...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Retirees Mark a Milestone
The APWU Retirees Department is 20 years old this year! The APWU now has 62 retiree chapters and over 37,000 members working in their communities to support important legislation; educating seniors on issues that will help them have a better quality of life, and contributing approximately $200,000 t...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Cataracts: Who’s at Risk?
A cataract is a clouding of the normally clear crystalline lens inside the eye. Cataracts are usually associated with aging, but may also be a consequence of a disease such as diabetes, a side effect of medication, or the result of trauma.
News Article | August 9, 2025
e-Team Report, July 12, 2013
Flurry of Postal Reform Developments on Capitol Hill Not a Cent! Senate GOP Threaten to Shut Down NLRB with Filibuster, Reform Considered U.S. Military Veteran Postal Workers Honored Convenience or Corporate Greed? – The Banks Wants the First Bite! The U.S. Postal Service Must Remain a Public Goo...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Arbitrator Sustains MS-47 Challenge
In another recent national-level award, Arbitrator Shyam Das sustained the union's challenge to management's revisions to the custodial staffing handbook (MS-47) and ordered the Postal Service to rescind the 2001 MS-47 Handbook, reinstate the previous (1983) MS-47 Handbook, and reinstate or prepare...
News Article | August 9, 2025
National Award on Attendance Control Supervisors Issuing Discipline
The issue in this case (#Q98C-4Q-C 01059241) was whether management’s use of attendance control supervisors to issue discipline for attendance-related offenses violates the National Agreement.
News Article | August 9, 2025
e-Team Report, May 12, 2012
Action Alert: Contact Your Representative Today re S.1789 GOP Votes Pay Cut For Postal, Federal Workers Warning to Postmaster- Do Not Preempt Congress Fox News: Not So……Fair and Balanced
News Article | August 9, 2025
Nurses’ Contract Headed for Interest Arbitration
The union and the Postal Service have agreed to submit to an interest arbitrator disputed contract issues for APWU-represented postal nurses. The Collective Bargaining Agreement between the National Postal Professional Nurses-APWU and the USPS expired Aug. 20, 2007.
News Article | August 9, 2025
Unions Discuss Proposed FECA Changes
The APWU hosted a meeting of unions on Feb. 28 to discuss proposed changes to the Federal Employees Compensation Act. Analyzing the Federal Injured Employees Re-Employment Act (FIERA) were labor organizations that represent postal and federal workers, including the APWU, the American Federation of G...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Starting a Small Business
Starting a business is an exciting proposition, but it’s also an incredibly challenging undertaking.