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Voters’ Views on Privatization of the Postal Service
https://d1ocufyfjsc14h.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/me-14968_postal_privatization.pdfHart Research and North Star Research have conducted a national survey of 1,402 registered voters that provides a deep exploration of voter attitudes on the question of postal service privatization and related issues. This memo reviews the survey’s key findings.
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APWU Leadership Institute Class Three Applications Open Until June 13, 2025!
May 2, 2025Applications for the APWU Leadership Institute – Class Three are now open through June 13, 2025.
apwu leadership instituteAPWU Leadership Institute
The Leadership Institute is an intensive three-week educational program, held one week at a time over a three-month period. The program will focus on topics ranging from organizing, bargaining, and representation, to legislation, community alliances, and building the APWU and union movements. It will help strengthen and enhance the leadership skills of local and state leaders, and union activists across the country. The Institute will be organized and overseen by the national president’s office and will include the participation of many national officers. The national APWU will cover all the costs, including lost compensation, of the participants.
The Institute is open to all full dues-paying APWU members in good standing with demonstrated involvement in the union. Each three-week session will consist of a diverse group of APWU members from all five regions and all crafts. Participants will be chosen via an impartial selection process. Although enrollment in the Institute’s Class Three is limited, there will be opportunities to participate in future Leadership Institutes.
Apply today!
Find application forms, frequently asked questions, and learn more at apwu.org/institute. ■
Course Schedule
Week One
September 8-12, 2025
Week Two
October 15-19, 2025
Week Three
December 8-12, 2025
Applications for the APWU
Leadership Institute Class Three
Open Until September 13, 20240
Congress Moves to Gut Postal and Federal Pensions — APWU Calls for Immediate Action!
May 1, 2025On April 30, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform approved a number of significant cuts to the retirement benefits of postal and federal workers. Passed by a slim margin of 22-21, this measure will now be included in the full reconciliation package which Republican leadership is aiming to hold a full House vote on sometime this month. The retirement cuts would have devastating implications for APWU members, including:
On April 30, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform approved a number of significant cuts to the retirement benefits of postal and federal workers. Passed by a slim margin of 22-21, this measure will now be included in the full reconciliation package which Republican leadership is aiming to hold a full House vote on sometime this month. The retirement cuts would have devastating implications for APWU members, including:
Eliminating the FERS annuity Social Security supplement, which allows workers who have earned their retirement the ability to retire before their Social Security benefits begin;
Increasing the FERS annuity contribution rates for all active employees to 4.4%;
Replacing the High-3 FERS annuity calculation with a High-5 calculation, resulting in a reduction in annuity payments.
Also included in the passed were egregious attacks on federal employees, such as:
Charging a filing fee for Merit Systems Protection Board Claims and Appeals, and
Forcing new hires in the federal workforce to choose between at-will employment or paying an increased FERS contribution rate of 9.4%. While this specific proposal does not currently apply to postal workers, it is a dangerous change to eliminate job security and protections from government service.
“Make no mistake, Congress’ outrageous proposal intends to finance tax-cuts for the oligarchy with money from postal and federal workers’ paychecks,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. “We must act quickly and with the full force of the labor movement and our union membership to protect our pensions.”
With a slim majority in the House of Representatives, and united Democratic opposition, we need only a handful of pro-labor Republicans to stand up and fight back against these attacks on the pensions of postal and federal workers. We were greatly encouraged by Representative Mike Turner (R-OH-03) who voted against this package because “making changes to pension retirement benefits in the middle of someone’s employment is wrong.” APWU looks forward to working with Representative Turner, and other labor allies on both sides of the aisle, to defeat these attacks.
“The time to act is now to save our pensions,” said APWU Legislative and Political Director Judy Beard. “We are actively engaging with lawmakers on this fight, but need each and every APWU member to pick up the phone and call your member of Congress. Tell them to keep their hands off our pensions!”
On April 30, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform approved a number of significant cuts to the retirement benefits of postal and federal workers. Passed by a slim margin of 22-21, this measure will now be included in the full reconciliation package which Republican leadership is aiming to hold a full House vote on sometime this month. The retirement cuts would have devastating implications for APWU members, including:0
Read More....How to Receive One-Time Retirement Incentive Checks
April 29, 2025The incentive checks will be sent to the employee’s office of last appointment. From there, the retiree can pick it up from the office or it will be mailed from the office to the address indicated on the PS 3077 -Request to Forward Salary Check form.
PLEASE NOTE: The incentive checks will be sent to the employee’s office of last appointment. From there, the retiree can pick it up from the office or it will be mailed from the office to the address indicated on the PS 3077-Request to Forward Salary Check form.
Full-time career postal employees who chose optional retirement or retirement pursuant to a Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) as a result of the mutually agreed APWU-USPS One-Time Retirement Incentive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) dated Jan. 13, 2025, will be paid as follows:
$10,000 to be paid on August 15, 2025.
$5,000 to be paid on August 28, 2026.
Part-time employees were also eligible for the incentive and will receive a prorated amount as outlined in the MOU.
The incentive checks will be sent to the employee’s office of last appointment. From there, the retiree can pick it up from the office or it will be mailed from the office to the address indicated on the PS 3077-Request to Forward Salary Check form.
Employees taking advantage of the incentive should complete the form, which provides the address where they would like the check sent (usually their final check/terminal leave) and give it to their manager/supervisor.
Then, when the check arrives at the postal unit, the manager will mail the check to the address provided by the employee.
The MOU states:
Any employee who is eligible for these incentive payments will complete PS Form 3077, Request to Forward Salary Check, and submit to their employing office. The incentive payments will be distributed to the address provided by the employee.
Documents Regarding 2025 One-Time Retirement Incentive Checks
2025-01-13 MOU Re: One-Time Retirement Incentive
PS Form 3077 Request to Forward Salary Check
The incentive checks will be sent to the employee’s office of last appointment. From there, the retiree can pick it up from the office or it will be mailed from the office to the address indicated on the PS 3077 -Request to Forward Salary Check form. The incentive checks will be sent to the employee’s office of last appointment. From there, the retiree can pick it up from the office or it will be mailed from the office to the address indicated on the PS 3077 -Request to Forward Salary Check form. 0
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Celebrating May Day 2025 – International Workers’ Day
April 29, 2025May Day, the annual holiday recognizing the international working class, will be celebrated around the world on May 1. We encourage APWU members to join our labor allies across the country at one of the many May Day events happening to combat the attacks on the working class – our wages, our benefits, and our dignity.
A Brief History of May Day
In the 1880s, Chicagoans were fed up with the status quo, where industrial workers toiled long hours in squalid conditions. The International Working People’s Association formed in 1883 and dedicated its resources to establishing an eight-hour work day. Led by Albert Parsons and August Spies, demands for an eight-hour day swept the nation.
At the American Federation of Labor’s 1884 convention, delegates adopted a resolution urging all workers to strike two years later, on May 1, 1886 and on that day more than 340,000 workers took part in national actions in support for an eight-hour day.
Two days later, activists organized a union action at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, where scabs had replaced locked out workers on strike. Police arrived to intimidate the strikers, beating them with billy clubs. As protestors exited, police ran at them and fired into the retreating crowd, killing at least six and injuring many more. In the coming days, tensions escalated between police and workers.
The following day, on May 4, labor leaders organized a rally in Haymarket Square. While the event was meant to be a non-violent protest of police brutality, it became violent, ultimately leading to the deaths of several civilians at the hands of the police, fellow officers, and dozens more injured.
News of the tragedy sent shockwaves through the labor movement worldwide. In 1889, labor advocates declared May 1 International Workers Day – or May Day – to commemorate the struggle of the Haymarket Affair and to build international workers’ solidarity.
Highlighting the Significance
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Labor Demands and End to the Assault on the Right to Organize and Protest
April 28, 2025The labor movement holds one value above all others: solidarity. Labor demands an end to the Trump administration’s assaults on immigrant workers, freedom of speech, the right to organize and bargain, and federal government workers, their unions, and the services they provide.
The labor movement holds one value above all others: solidarity. Labor demands an end to the Trump administration’s assaults on immigrant workers, freedom of speech, the right to organize and bargain, and federal government workers, their unions, and the services they provide.
We will not stand by as President Donald Trump terrorizes immigrant workers with abduction, detention, and confinement without due process in unmarked facilities, far-flung detention centers, and a notorious prison in El Salvador.
The attacks are ramping up, and we need to act fast. In Washington state, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents smashed a car window and detained farmworker Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, a leader in the berry-pickers union Familias Unidas por la Justicia, on his way to drop off his partner at work. They locked up SEIU Local 925 member Lewelyn Dixon, a lab tech at the University of Washington, when she returned from a family trip. They raided a roofing company where workers recently went on a safety strike, and arrested 37 people.
In Massachusetts, federal immigration agents snatched Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student at Tufts University on a student visa and an SEIU Local 509 member, on her way to break her Ramadan fast. She had written an op-ed in the student newspaper in support of Palestine.
In Baltimore, they arrested sheet metal worker Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a SMART Local 100 apprentice and father of a disabled child, and sent him to El Salvador’s nightmarish prison—then they called it an “administrative error” and said they could not get him back.
In New York, they abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate and United Auto Workers Local 2710 member, for protesting Israel’s assault on Gaza. They have also taken many others whose names aren’t public yet.
This administration attacked these members of our communities on their way to work, on their way to worship, on their way home. They locked them up after speaking their minds. And they did that on purpose.
They have also threatened and intimidated university administrations in an effort to enlist them in suppressing dissent. Sadly, many have acquiesced to these demands, making a mockery of the concept of “academic freedom” and the free exchange of ideas. Students have been suspended and expelled. Faculty members have been disciplined and discharged.
Further, the mass firings of federal workers and the attempt to abolish their collective bargaining rights are attacks also on the services they provide and the very function of our government. Trump wants a government that only serves the interests of corporations and oligarchs. Rather than a government of, by, and for the people, he would create one by and for the privileged rich. He wants to create a culture of fear.
We must not bow to any of it.
Labor Demands and End to the Assault on the Right to Organize and Protest0
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