USPS Loses Money on Closures and Mail Slowdown Plan

Over the last few weeks, news has spread about a bombshell report that postal management’s supposed cost-saving decision to shutter plants and slow down the mail has actually lost the USPS money. As reported in Government Executive, “The U.S. Postal...

A Chance for Change in 2016

Thousands of APWU members took part in the 2014 convention.  Get involved and join the fight for justice. (This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)  This year there is so much at stake for...

Pocatello Takes On Washington

Pocatello Mayor Brian Blad speaks to a reporter at a Pocatello Local rally, also attended by Chubbuck Mayor Kevin England. (This article first appeared in the January-February 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine). A group of elected...

Important Arbitration Win in Fight Against Plant Closures and Consolidations

Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled on Dec. 3, 2015, that the American Postal Workers Union and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union may now go forward with their Step 4 grievances challenging the Postal Service’s decision to close or consolidate...

Making Sure America Unites to Save Our Public Postal Service

(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) How can we make sure America unites with us to stop the destruction of the public Postal Service? We need to make support for the people’s...

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