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News Article | September 19, 2025

Personal Messages

You can download and print the APWU Supports Our Troops postcard to accompany your care package. For security reasons, personal messages cannot be enclosed in an envelope or sealed in any way. Messages that contain negative remarks will not be forwarded.

News Article | September 19, 2025

Support APWU Members Serving in the Military

The APWU is coordinating an effort to show support for union members and their loved ones who are serving in the military. We plan to send them care packages and acknowledge their sacrifice by posting their name, address, and photo on our Web site.  

News Article | September 19, 2025

Care Packages for Union Members Serving in the Military

The APWU is coordinating an effort to show support for union members and their loved ones who are serving in the military. We plan to send them care packages and to acknowledge their sacrifice by posting their name, address, and photo on this Web site. [Click here for information form]

News Article | September 19, 2025

USPS Must Do More For Veterans

Although the Postal Service employs large numbers of veterans, not enough is being done by our employer to help qualified veterans secure jobs.

News Article | September 19, 2025

The Union Veterans Council

The AFL-CIO Union Veterans Council (UVC) was established in 2009 to unite union leaders and members who are veterans in a shared goal – to influence public pol-icy to improve the quality of life for veterans and their families.

News Article | September 19, 2025

Trampling on Veterans’ Rights

A recent regional Merit Systems Protection Board decision rejected the appeal of an APWU veteran who had been involuntarily demoted to a lower grade. "Appellant may well be performing lower-graded duties," the board ruled, "but, absent an official position change, appellant's reduction in 'rank' doe...

News Article | September 19, 2025

Viet Nam Era Veterans and Agent Orange

Agent Orange was one of the weed-killing chemicals used by the U.S. military in the Vietnam War. It was sprayed to remove leaves from trees that enemy troops hid behind. Agent Orange and similar chemicals were known as “herbicides.” Agent Orange was applied by airplanes, helicopters, trucks and back...

News Article | September 19, 2025

Kids Camp: Where the Impossible Becomes Possible

It’s been a little more than two years since we first introduced you to the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team. All of the players made sacrifices on the battlefield, and as a team they have inspired thousands with their grit on the ball field.

News Article | September 19, 2025

House Resolution 111: Leave No Man Behind

As of 2005, approximately 89,000 servicemen remain missing from all American wars since World War II. As unionists, we enforce contracts. It is time as citizens we mandate our government to honor the contract it signed with the courageous men and women who have worn our country’s uniform. This inclu...

News Article | September 19, 2025

Quilting for Wounded Warriors

APWU Auxiliary member Bailey Gocke, age 15, has created a quilt – made of 1,304 squares – to help raise funds for the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team, one of several APWU-sponsored programs to Support Our Troops and Veterans. ALSO: The Veterans Affairs Department has begun the process of repla...

News Article | September 19, 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 | September 19, 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 | September 19, 2025

The War at Home

Pollutants from open-air burn pits, fires and clean-up operations are believed to be causing serious health problems for our military men and women. At least 1,000 troops and veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have mysteriously fallen ill. Their otherwise inexplicable conditions are wide-ra...

News Article | September 19, 2025

Rolling Thunder’s Ride For Freedom Motorcycle Rally

For the past several years, APWU members have come together to participate in Ride for Freedom, an annual rally in Washington, DC to raise awareness about veteran and POW-MIA issues. Come ride with us or watch from the sidelines as we join more than 300,000 riders on the Sunday during Memorial Day w...

News Article | September 19, 2025

New Diseases Associated With Agent Orange

Those of you who served in Vietnam should know that the list of illnesses that the Veterans Administration is accepting as possibly being related to exposure to Agent Orange is growing.