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APWU, Unions Rally with AFGE to ‘Save Our Civil Service’

February 12, 2025
In a massive show of solidarity, AFL-CIO affiliated unions, Congressional allies, and federal workers gathered on Feb. 11 at Upper Senate Park in a rally to “Save Our Civil Service,” hosted by American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) amid...

PRC Advisory Opinion on USPS Service Standard Changes, Warns of ‘Significant Negative Impact’

February 4, 2025
In October 2024, the United States Postal Service announced proposed changes to how it collects and distributes outgoing mail that would lengthen the delivery service standards for much of the country’s First Class Mail. Before implementing the...

This Too Shall Pass, We Must Persevere

January 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) As I am writing this article, our national elections have just finished. The candidate our union endorsed for U. S. President did not prevail,...

SEAM Challenged in National Arbitration

January 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) As we traveled across the country, we began to hear stories and concerns from our members concerning the new program Solution for Enterprise...

Moving Forward

January 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) We all begin a new year with hopes for improvements on the past year. Even if the past year was a really great one, for instance, one in which...

Keep the Clerk Craft Strong

January 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The Clerk Craft continued to grow with a net gain of approximately 5,500 new employees in the last year. Nearly all of this growth has been to...

Wells Fargo Scandal: A Labor Issue and One More Argument for Postal Banking

January 1, 2017
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) accused former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf  of “gutless leadership” during a Senate Banking Committee hearing. (This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The...

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