APWU: California Retirees Host Tailgate Party

Web News Article #: 053-2015 03/18/2015 – APWU retirees in the Golden State took a bite out of privatization by hosting a Contract Campaign Tailgate Party. Members of the San Fernando Valley Golden Oldies Retirees Chapter, along with local, state and regional APWU officers, hosted a barbecue for more than 180 delegates to meeting of…

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NALC: Strike remembered in oral histories

Letter carriers who were involved in the Great Postal Strike, which began 45 years ago on March 18, 1970, are telling their stories for a new book about the walkout. The book is being written by Philip Rubio, an associate professor of history at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro and author of There’s…

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Soldiers build postal capacity from ground up in Iraq

CAMP TAJI, Iraq (March 16, 2015) — Even in a time of constant digital communication – an age of Twitter, Facebook and FaceTime – there remains something special for deployed Soldiers about a tangible letter or package sent by loved ones halfway around the world. For those Service members deployed with Combined Joint Forces Land…

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