Unite and Fight Organizing Drive

While we celebrate 250 years of the United States Postal Service and have secured a solid new union contract, the threat of postal privatization still remains. We must stand together, unite & fight to preserve the public Post Office.

Despite the many achievements of our union, we continue to face serious challenges that threaten our job security, our pay, benefits, and the very future of the Postal Service. So, how can APWU members fight back against attempts to privatize our Postal Service and keep it running for another 250 years? One way is by organizing new members into our union.

Local and state organizations are coming together to unite and fight back against threats to our work, our contract, and our public Postal Service. That is the theme of the new APWU internal organizing drive – “Unite and Fight.” The organizing drive will kick off on Sept. 1 and will run through Oct. 31.

One in five of our coworkers across the country do not belong to our union. Our goal is for 2,000 individual members to sign up at least one new member. Organizing is every member’s opportunity to grow and strengthen our union.

Why Organize?

A union derives its power from its members joining together and exercising their collective voice to win on issues that matter most to them. The more members in a union, the more representative it is of the workforce, the louder its collective voice, and the harder it is for the boss to play workers against one another.

Second, internal organizing is a good opportunity to make a union stronger by exercising its union muscles. Having conversations with coworkers, identifying and addressing workplace issues, recruiting new activists and leaders are things we can achieve when we develop a plan to grow our union, talk to nonmembers, and then find out what issues are most important to postal workers today.

Talking and acting like a union, leading and engaging in collective campaigns, and signing up new members allows us to flex our APWU muscles and grow stronger together.

The APWU Organization Department, led by Anna Smith, has developed a toolkit of helpful materials to bring along with you when reaching out to nonmembers. View the resources below to access these tools and to get involved in this critical member organizing drive.

Participate in the Unite & Fight Organizing Drive!

Step 1

Pledge to take part in the organizing drive and map out your action plan.

Organizing Drive Commit

Step 2

Order materials that will support your organizing efforts.

Order Materials

Step 3

Ask your nonmember coworker to stand united with you and join today.

Join APWU

Step 4

Log your organizing success to be entered into the weekly drawings.

Recruitment Record

“It’s been an exciting year,” said President Dimondstein, kicking off the campaign. “We won a decent new contract and we found off devastating retirement cuts. We’ve won these battles and many more because our union is ready to fight for what matters to postal workers. We’ll be even stronger when we’ve signed up the nonmembers in workplaces across the country and grown our union family.