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APWU Contract Update, March 20 Recap, and More
April 10, 2025APWU President Dimondstein provides a contract update in the latest podcast episode of Communicating With You, The Member. Read the transcript excerpt of his contract update here, and listen to the full podcast.
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APWU President Dimondstein provides a contract update in the latest podcast episode of Communicating With You, The Member. Listen to the full episode and read the transcript excerpt of his contract update below:
April Contract Update
Read More....Legislative Priority: How to Find Your Federal, State, and Local Elected Representatives
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Read More....Anti-Worker, Anti-Postal Bills
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Read More....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