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APWU Releases Q&As about 2025 Voluntary Early Retirement

February 1, 2025
The Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) recently announced for eligible postal workers by the Postal Service has generated many questions from the members of the APWU. The Postal Service published a list of questions and answers for our members.

House Resolution 70: Protecting the People’s Post Office

January 30, 2025
Please call APWU’s Legislative Hotline at 1-844-402-1001 to be connected to your member of Congress today, and ask them to cosponsor H. Res. 70, which expressly opposes postal privatization. Defending the people’s public Postal Service from...

Postal Banking Gaining Steam on Capitol Hill

August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) There has been more activity around expanding postal financial services on Capitol Hill since the last edition of The American Postal Worker went to...

Postal Strike/50th Birthday/ Anniversary of APWU

August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On July 1, 2021, the APWU celebrated its 50th Anniversary/ Birthday. The APWU commemorated the event by giving a presentation via Livestream about...

Maintenance: 50 Years Later

August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In 1971, five independent and separate unions representing several thousand postal workers merged to become the American Postal Workers Union, AFL-...

Changes are Coming in Mail Processing Facilities

August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In recent weeks and months, the Postal Service has begun implementing changes to its mail processing operations, and these changes are apt to...

Q&A with Bessemer, AL Amazon Union Organizer Jennifer Bates

August 27, 2021
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Earlier this year, workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, AL fulfillment center worked to unionize their workplace with the Retail, Wholesale and Department...

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