Category: National News
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APWU Announces Dates for Retroactive Payments
From APWU.org. The Postal Service has provided tentative dates for the additional negotiated pay provisions in the 2024-2027 National Agreement and the date of the retroactive payment for the pay increases due for the “stopgap” period of November 16, 2024, to August 22, 2025. It was previously announced that the…
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2025 Postal Health Benefits Open Season at Risk: Federal News Network
“Staffing vacancies and funding losses at the Office of Personnel Management are putting the near-new Postal Service Health Benefits program at risk of an “operational failure,” according to OPM’s inspector general office.” Read the rest here at Federal News Network.
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APWU Takes on Wall Street and Postal Privatizers
Reposted from APWU.org. On July 24, hundreds of postal workers, labor allies, and members of the community took to the streets of New York City in a high-spirited rally to tell Wall Street bankers, billionaires, and anyone who wants to privatize our postal service that “The U.S. Mail Is Not…
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APWU Members Ratify 2024-2027 National Agreement!
Reposted from APWU.org. “Today, APWU members overwhelmingly voted in favor of ratifying the 2024-2027 National Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the APWU and the USPS,” announced APWU President Mark Dimondstein. 95% of the members who voted, voted “Yes!” in favor of ratification. The vote tally was 34,867 votes for ratification and…
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Senate Parliamentarian Drops Most Anti-Union Policies from Reconciliation Bill
Shared from AFGE.org. Our Senate friends – Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), to name the most prominent – in turn were able to convince the Senate parliamentarian – the Senate umpire – that…
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Big News!! APWU, USPS Reach Tentative Agreement on New Union Contract!
Reposted from APWU.org. The American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service have reached a tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement, announced APWU President and Lead Negotiator Mark Dimondstein. The proposed union contract is three years in duration: September 21, 2024, through September 20, 2027. The Tentative Agreement was finalized on…