APWU

  • No Relief in Sight as Postal Service Pushes Ahead with Cuts
    Theresa Moran
    May 24 2012 - 12:48pm
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    When the Senate passed a bill on April 25 meant to provide relief to the financially struggling post office, postal activists shrugged.

    Neither chamber of Congress is adequately addressing the root cause of the Postal Service budget crisis, they say. Absent a fix, Postmaster General Patrick Donohoe’s plans for massive cuts to jobs and services soon will be underway for postal workers and communities nationwide.

  • Vermont Postal Unions and Occupy Unite to Save the Mail
    Liz Blum
    Mar 26 2012 - 12:14pm

    In the face of huge cuts planned for the Postal Service, dozens of facilities threatened with closure have won a reprieve. That's giving hope to Vermont postal workers and supporters fighting to save the mail and good union jobs.

  • Postal Workers Need Support from the 99%
    Paul Felton
    Mar 1 2012 - 10:25am

    With service cuts and at least 100,000 layoffs threatened, what's happened to the Postal Service? Congress saddled it with billions of dollars of obligations, an attack that will take an army of activists to undo. Glimmers of hope are on the horizon.

  • What’s Behind Postal Crisis? Privatization.

    The push to dismantle the U.S. Postal Service’s distribution and delivery network is a scheme by corporate privatizers to crush the largest organized workforce in federal employment, pick apart a trusted government service, and grab the most profitable parts of the business for their own enrichment.

  • 492 Rallies Tell Congress: Don't Kill the Post Office
    Evan Rohar
    Sep 28 2011 - 5:33pm

    The nation’s postal unions organized 492 rallies across the country Tuesday in support of federal legislation that would relieve the burdensome requirement that postal employees pre-fund decades worth of retirees’ benefits.

  • Unions Say Postal Default Is a Big Lie
    Jenny Brown
    Sep 27 2011 - 9:51am

    The story line from Postal Service management is simple and apocalyptic: The public is emailing and paying bills online, bankrupting the post office. Postal unions say that's dead wrong: They say the bosses are manufacturing a crisis to push a union-busting privatization agenda. The unions are rallying nationwide today.

  • Postal Union Brings Back Work, but Divides It
    David Yao
    Apr 21 2011 - 11:30am

    Debate is raging inside the Postal Workers over a tentative contract that brings back thousands of contracted-out jobs, but creates a lower wage scale for new employees and an additional second-class workforce.

  • Postal Unions Battle Cuts to Jobs, Service
    David Yao
    Nov 3 2009 - 1:13am

    The Postal Service, in a financial crunch that threatens both jobs and service to the public, is looking to Congress for help. If postal unions want to avoid the auto workers’ fate, they need to find allies and make their case publicly.