History
Postal workers in the United States first won collective bargaining rights after the U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970.
The APWU was founded on July 1, 1971, by a merger of five postal unions. The United Federation of Postal Clerks and the National Postal Union, the two largest unions, and the National Association of Post Office and General Service Maintenance Employees, the National Federation of Motor Vehicle Employees, and the National Association of Special Delivery Messengers.
On August 20, 2007, the previously independent NPPN (National Postal Professional Nurses) merged with the APWU. As a result of this merger, the members of the NPPN were granted membership in the Support Services Division of the APWU. The NPPN-APWU represents over 90 Occupational Health Nurses who are employeed by the Postal Service. This 2007 merger was the first merger of any postal unions in the United States since the U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970.
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“Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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