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In a Needed Step to Improve Service, Postal Management to Slow Down Consolidations

May 15, 2024
In response to union, community, and political pressure, Postmaster General (PMG) DeJoy, in a letter to Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), has agreed to pause, at least until January 2025, a number of the planned mail consolidations that are part of the “...

GSA Per Diem Rate Now Covers Daily Cost at NCED Eatery Effective March 15, 2024.

May 14, 2024
The General Services Administration Per Diem Rate of $59 Now Covers Daily Cost of Meals at National Center for Employee Development’s “3 Squares Eatery,” Effective March 15, 2024.

A Welcome Return for the APWU Biennial National Convention

September 16, 2022
The delegates in attendance at the 26th Biennial Convention showed up and stepped up through the challenges COVID-19 may have presented to ensure the convention was successful. Congratulations to everyone who participated. As the Secretary-Treasurer...

Second COLA = Record Breaking $1.18/hr

September 10, 2022
In accordance with the 2021-2024 Collective Bar­gaining Agreement (union contract), career employees represented by the APWU will receive a $1.18 per hour Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA), effective August 27, 2022. The adjustment is the result of a...

Local Organizing – The Fund That Pays for Itself

September 10, 2022
As local and state officers bring their 2023 budgets to September and October meetings, it is important every local creates a budget for organizing. This summer, in our Building Union Power organizing drive, we recruited 5,000 new members. But the...

Federal Domestic Violence Laws

September 10, 2022
The text in this article is from the U.S. Department of Justice Website Federal Domestic Violence Laws Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an alarming rise in domestic violence and intimate partner violence. In 1994, Congress passed the...

Union Democracy Sets the Agenda

September 10, 2022
We just completed our 26th Biennial National Convention, which was held in National Harbor, MD. The delegates engaged in meaningful and spirited debate over the resolutions put before them. The APWU arguably has the most democratic process of any of...

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