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Anti-Union Bills: APWU Solidarity Actions
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How to Talk About Postal Privatization Threats
April 8, 2025As proud unionized postal workers, this is an urgent time to speak up and be heard! Talk to your coworkers, family, friends, and elected officials about the dangers of postal privatization, and why it’s important for the postal service to remain a public entity.
As proud unionized postal workers, this is an urgent time to speak up and be heard! Talk to your coworkers, family, friends, and elected officials. Share information with organizations you are part of. Write letters to the editor of your local newspapers. These “talking points” can help amplify your own voice and message!
The Postal Service is enshrined in the Constitution, created by Congress and supported by the people. Public postal services are a democratic right of the people. The universal service mandate requires delivery to 169 million addresses at least six days a week. Private companies base their services on private profit and would never provide such a universal service. The Postal Service belongs to the people, not to any one individual or the billionaires.
The USPS is the low-cost anchor of the $1.2 trillion mail and package industry consisting of over 7 million jobs.
By law, the U.S. Postal Service runs on its own revenue, not tax dollars. USPS revenue challenges come from declining letters in the internet age. The transition to more package volume combined with new and expanded services is the best solution.
Privatization means turning over public postal services to private companies and investors for maximum profit, not the well-being and rights of the people. Selling off a part or all of the public Postal Service will lead to higher prices and reduced services – especially to rural America.
Privatization would eliminate decent living-wage union jobs for workers from all walks of life, including more than 70,000 military veterans. Good jobs build stronger communities. The USPS was created by Congress to be free of political interference. The effort to take over the USPS would be an illegal, hostile takeover. The law is clear: The Board of Governors is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Only the Board of Governors can hire or fire the Postmaster General. Only Congress can change the structure of the Postal Service.
The public should take recent threats seriously. In 2018, during President Trump’s first term, an OMB budget report proposed outright privatization of the USPS – selling it off to private corporations for private profit. The president has confirmed new efforts to do so.
We stand with the people to defend the Postal Service, as well as other important government services under assault, from VA medical care to Medicaid benefits. Our message is the “US Mail is Not For Sale” – Hands off Our Public Postal Service!
The Post Office will celebrate its 250th anniversary in July. Let’s work together to bring another 250 years of strong, public postal services!
Tell Congress to stand up to the administration and protect the Postal Service.
Read More....The USPS, Postal Workers Under Threat
April 7, 2025Postal Workers Must Once Again Stand Up and Fight Back against the Threat of Privatization! See what postal privatization means for postal workers.
Privatization – selling the Postal Service to private corporations – could happen in a few different ways. It might mean a big sell off of the whole USPS to the private sector. It could mean splitting the network into two or three pieces – selling off the most profitable parts to corporations, while leaving the rest to fail. It could even mean contracting out most of the network. However they try to do it, the effect on postal workers would be similar.
Efforts to sell off the Postal Service, in whole or in part, or to strip it of its independence or public service mission, would be of no benefit to the American people. Instead, it would drive up postage rates and lead to reduced service, especially to rural areas.
The Postal Reorganization Act, the 1970 law that created the Postal Service as an independent agency, intended our work to be freed from the shifting political winds, and dedicated to serving the American public. We have fought – many times – to keep our service free from political meddling, but we have never seen a threat this dire. Let’s stand up and fight back, APWU! ■
What Would Privatization Mean for Postal Workers?
You would not have a job with the U.S. Postal Service.
You would no longer be covered by the contract between the APWU and the USPS.
Your wages, benefits, cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs), and financial and job security would be gone.
Fair hiring practices for disabled veterans and people from all walks of life would likely cease.
Your federal retirement benefits would be frozen and would not increase. New, not-yet-vested workers would lose their retirement.
You would lose your health insurance with the Federal Employee Health Benefit (FEHB) plan. Your no-layoff clause and just-cause protections against unfair discipline and termination would cease.
All your benefits, like your sick, vacation, and holiday leave, would be gone.
Your right to file grievances would be lost, unless you are working for a unionized private company.
There would be no recourse for unsafe work environments, harassment, and more.
Your postal seniority and related benefits would be gone.
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Postal Workers Under Threat: What Would Privatization Mean For You?
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Read More....2025 Oklahoma Postal Workers Union State Convention
Training begins April 24. Registration: $140. Training, Convention and Banquet will be held at the Stride Bank Convention Center at 301 S Independence. Enid, Ok. For questions, contact Loretta Hackman at 918 833 2477
April 24, 2025 – 8:15AM to April 26, 2025 – 5:15PMGlo Best Western123 W Main St, Enid, Ok
LocalNoYes2025-04-04 00:00:002025 Oklahoma Postal Workers Union State ConventionTraining begins April 24.
Hotel Information
Glo Best Western
123 W Main St,
Enid, Ok
580 540 4172
Training, Convention and Banquet will be held at the Stride Bank Convention Center at 301 S Independence. Enid, Ok.
Registration is $140 Payable to:
OPWU
PO Box 3505
Tulsa, Ok 74101
Questions: Loretta Hackman at 918 833 2477
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March 20 Day of Action Recap
On March 20, 2025 APWU members took to the streets to say “Hands Off our public Postal Service. See our recap from the Day of Action.
p3ADrVYbBTsSee how our members took over the news cycle on March 20, 2025 as postal workers said “Hands Off” our public Postal Service.00
USPS Report: PSE Compliance Report Pay Period 7 – March 21, 2025
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Read More....Watchdog Report Reveals Big Banks Are Salivating Over Prospect of Postal Privatization
April 2, 2025Truthout, an independent news organization, recently reported on a Revolving Door Project analysis that revealed big banks are salivating over the prospect that the Postal Service will soon be broken up and privatized by the new Administration.
US Mail Not for SaleU.S. Mail is Not for Sale!
Truthout, an independent news organization, recently reported on a Revolving Door Project analysis that revealed big banks are salivating over the prospect that the Postal Service will soon be broken up and privatized by the new Administration. In February, Wells Fargo equity analysts circulated a document within the banking industry arguing that postal privatization could be a huge money-maker for investors. They advise the Administration to sell off the most profitable parts of the service – primarily packages and parcels, while putting taxpayers on the hook for the rest.
They called the Postal Service, which generates nearly $80 billion in revenue each year, “an obvious source of value.” That is $80 billion in the public domain that Wall Street investors can’t get their hands on.
Privatization would lead to significant price increases – potentially doubling them, and mass layoffs. These layoffs could drastically reduce the number of unionized employees in the U.S., as 91 percent of the Postal Service’s 640,000 employees are unionized.
“We know that privatized postal services will lead to higher postage prices, and lower service quality to the public,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein in a statement about the leaked Wells Fargo report.
Read the entire Wells Fargo report HERE
Find the Truthout breakdown of the report HERE
Watchdog Report Reveals Big Banks Are Salivating Over Prospect of Postal Privatization0
Read More....2025 APWU PAYROLL PROCESSING SCHEDULE
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The ‘Hands Off Our Veterans’ Healthcare’ Fight Continues In 2025
March 24, 2025The ‘Hands O¥ Our Veterans’ Healthcare’
Fight Continues In 2025
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In the January/February 2025 Home Front article, we informed APWU veterans about the very serious consequences that Project 2025 will have on Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits, the quality healthcare services veterans receive, and the use of private contractors to process and evaluate their disability claims. We called it a “Code Red Alert” because Project 2025 plans to totally privatize our VA healthcare during President Trump’s second four-year term of office.
Project 2025 does not just affect VA healthcare benefits, it also affects five and 10-point Veterans’ Preference to regular federal government agency employment. So, while we are fighting to save our healthcare, we are also fighting to save our Veterans’ Preference jobs with the Postal Service, which are also threatened to be privatized under President Trump’s Project 2025 plans.
The plan to privatize VA healthcare has been a gradual, ongoing process ever since for-pro t private contractors started replacing VA Federal Government Management and highly trained VA employees more than 22 years ago. In fact, the private contracting of VA healthcare services has increased to such an extreme over the years, that currently over 70 percent of the more than $300 billion of the annual 2022, 2023, and 2024 VA healthcare budget went to private contractors, while only 27 percent went to regular VA federal government employee wages and VA healthcare.
Project 2025 tries to rationalize the privatization of VA healthcare. The most insulting excuse is that sending veterans to local private healthcare contractors would provide faster, top-quality healthcare services, and would reduce waiting times for medical appointments and claim decisions, more so than with fully staffed federal government medical professionals who are trained to serve and provide top-quality healthcare serves to veterans.
There is absolutely no proof that privatizing VA healthcare and increasing the wealth of those awarded private VA contracts would provide better or faster healthcare services than a fully staffed and trained federal agency that specializes in serving veterans. Has the increased privatization of VA healthcare services over the past 23 years reduced wait times for VA appointments? The answer is no! Wait times for a newly enrolled veteran’s first medical appointments are months long, which is a dramatic increase in waiting times for VA services.
A Look at VA Services Diminished by Privatization
While veteran suicide rates have increased, the process to access help from the privatized Veterans Suicide and Crisis Lifeline has gotten more challenging. When dialing 988 to access support, the automated process prompts veterans to dial 911 if it is an emergency, instead of connecting them directly to a real-life mentalhealth professional. This additional step a veteran must take adds another hurdle to access the care they need. Veterans Community Care and Emergency Medical Care services have separate billing systems controlled by private contractors, which seem to change like the weather. Additionally, for-profit private contractors oversee electronic VA enrollment and disability claims processing procedures.
So, APWU family, it is time to act against further privatization and degradation of VA services! Contact your congressional leaders and tell them to stop allowing private for-profit companies to enrich themselves at the expense of our veterans and the services they have earned. How are private contractors providing so-called quality healthcare while enriching themselves from the billions of dollars of veterans’ co-payments and the wage garnishments that cause financial hardship? Isn’t it obvious that privatization like Project 2025 demands has already been implemented at VA medical centers across the country? It is up to our APWU veteran family to stand up and fight back!
Our “Hands Off Veterans Healthcare” initiative and the struggle to save the Postal Service continues! ■
The ‘Hands O¥ Our Veterans’ Healthcare’
Fight Continues In 20250