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Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee holds Hearing on Oversight of the USPS
April 16, 2024
On 4/16, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing to conduct oversight of the USPS. The purpose of the hearing, as stated by Committee Chaiman Senator Gary Peters office
Grievance Moratorium will be in Effect Due to 2024 National Convention
April 11, 2024
The APWU and the Postal Service have agreed to a moratorium on grievances, disciplinary actions and arbitration hearings at the national, regional, state and local levels from July 8 through July 22, 2024, due to the 2024 APWU Biennial Convention,...
Strikes, Shutdown and Service — Public Servants Rise in Defense of the Public Good
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Conventional wisdom suggested that the anti-union Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME last summer spelled the inevitable decline of public sector...
Advocating for Postal Banking in the U.S. and Canada
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
As was previously reported in the American Postal Worker, the Canadian government forced striking Canadian Union of Postal Workers back to work at...
What's to Come in Interest Arbitration
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman
Our efforts to reach a new contract are now entering the next phases of mediation and interest...
Secretary-Treasurer Powell Honored with World Peace Prize for Labor Leadership
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
On Feb. 5, Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth “Liz” Powell was honored by the World Peace Prize Awarding Council (WPPAC) as a “Roving Ambassador for Peace...
What are the Requirements to Remain as a Chartered Local?
April 2, 2019
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
By Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell
Under the provisions of Article 16.4 of the APWU Constitution, the Secretary-Treasurer’s Department must notify...