APWU is asking for our help
Senior management at the United States Postal Service is asking the Congress to sign off on its plans to eliminate six-day mail delivery service.
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Your brothers and sisters in the American Postal Worker Union (and in the National Association of Letter Carriers) need your help:
The [...]

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URGENT: Town Hall on plant closing is Thursday (11/19)
We have received an urgent request for solidarity assistance from APWU Local 1807 in Hickory, NC. As we’ve highlighted in past email updates and in our recent newsletter, the U.S. Postal Service is cutting services and window hours, consolidating rural routes, and has even sought legislation [...]

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Unions are absolutely pro-American
Even with health care at the forefront of debate, as union members we can’t afford to forget about the Employee Free Choice Act. Working men and women are still fired and intimidated every day for exercising their right to form a union, and it is essential that labor reform go hand in [...]

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Amendment to Senate bill would devastate employee pay and benefits
We got a call today from NC APWU State Council President Larry Sorrells about an urgent need for support from our labor movement.
The United States Senate will vote on a bill next week that includes a provision which would be devastating to postal employees. From the [...]

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On Monday, workers from APWU and UFCW turned out for an Employee Free Choice Act event in downtown Fayetteville. They passed out slices of apple pie to people walking by, as well as literature on the Employee Free Choice Act. The purpose of the event was to educate the public about the Employee Free Choice [...]

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