Budget Deal Protecting Social Security and Medicare Beneficiaries Passes U.S. House

  Congressional leaders and the White House announced on Monday that they had reached a deal to avert default and keep the government funded. Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner helped arrange the deal, which also cleared the way for new Speaker ...

Bernie Sanders Addresses APWU Conference

Click here to see Senator Bernie Sanders’ speech to the APWU All-Craft Conference on Oct. 14.  Bernie Sanders Addresses APWU Conference Check Out the Video!Bernie Sanders Addresses APWU Conference. Posted by APWU - The American Postal Workers...

‘It Was Electric’

Senator Bernie Sanders  Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders thrilled APWU members attending the union’s All-Craft Conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 14. “It was electric,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein of the response to Sanders’ speech....

The 2016 Presidential Election: My Thoughts; How About Yours?

(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) It’s amazing that presidential campaigns have become such big business that they never seem to cease. As soon as one ends, the next one begins...

Republican Presidential Hopefuls Are Staying Silent Regarding Social Security Privatization but Still Favor 'Reform'

While still talking about the need to “save” Social Security by cutting benefits to retirees, this cycle’s crop of GOP Presidential candidates have been silent on whether they’d support a plan to privatize Social Security. In 2005, Democrats...

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