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Union Contract Survey: Open Now through April 16, 2024

March 26, 2024
APWU has opened our contract survey so that you can let us know what your priorities are for a new union contract. Please fill out the survey by visiting apwu.org/survey. Alternatively, you can text the word “SURVEY” to 91990 to receive a link to...

What's Really Happening to Veterans VA Healthcare?

March 22, 2024
In this edition of Home Front, we will highlight a few of the numerous negative healthcare laws of the Trump-era VA Mission Act, that was passed by Congress, and signed into law on June 6, 2018, by former President Donald Trump.

MVS Challenges Zero Base Review

March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The APWU initiated a National Dispute on January 29, 2021, challenging the Postal Service’s National Zero Base review program and Transportation...

Postal Workers Are Essential Workers

March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Moving forward into 2021, we can be amazed and be proud of how we persevered and managed to get through the past year of COVID-19 battered but unbowed...

COVID-19 Spotlights the Need to Continue the Fight for Safety and Health

March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Every year on April 28, workers come together for Workers Memorial Day to remember those who have died, been injured, or contracted an occupational...

Who Conducts Function Four Reviews (or Scams) in the Middle of a Pandemic?

March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The Postal Service intends to conduct 607 Level 3 Function 4 reviews and 8,772 modified Level 2 Function 4 reviews in offices across the country....

Custodial Team Cleaning Failed the COVID Test

March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In the March-April 2019 issue, we raised the alarm that the Custodial Team Cleaning Program (CTC), along with its chemicals, was doomed to fail. We...

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