Pascrell Calls on Biden to Fire Entire USPS Board of Governors Postal governing body sat complicit to Trump and DeJoy’s spree of sabotage and subversion U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today wrote to President Joe Biden calling on him to fire the entire United States Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors for their silence and complicity […]
On January 20, following the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States, the APWU got to work pushing for the new administration to prioritize postal workers in its national COVID-19 vaccination policy. In a letter to the administration, President Dimondstein advocated for postal workers to be recognized as frontline workers […]
On his first day in office, President-elect Joe Biden is expected to sign 17 executive actions —15 will be executive orders, some of which will reverse decisions made by his predecessor, President Trump. The executive actions will make changes to the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic and try to ease some of the financial […]
What is the Postal Board of Governors and what does it do? The Postal Service has a Board of Governors that is responsible for major decisions about the Postal Service’s operations, policies and expenditures. The Board’s responsibilities also include hiring and firing the Postmaster General. The Board is usually made up of nine members who […]
Ronald Stroman, a former deputy postmaster general for the United States Postal Service, has been named the head of President-elect Joe Biden’s four-member transition team for the U.S. Postal Service. His appointment was announced Nov. 10 by Biden’s transition office. Earlier this year, Stroman suddenly resigned from his postal position as the Postal Service’s board […]
11/11/2020 Joe Biden and his likely incoming administration must make a basic decision about how they will deal with the large and financially troubled U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Option one is to continue, even accelerate, House Democrats’ policy of belligerence toward Republican Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Option two is to recognize the reality that DeJoy […]
(CNN)People cheered US Postal Service workers in New York and New Jersey on Saturday after a days-long count of mailed-in ballots in key states finally led CNN and other news organizations to declare Joe Biden the winner of the presidential race. Joe Altenau, who took a video of the scene in Brooklyn, said he’s “incredibly […]
NPMHU National President Paul Hogrogian Statement on President-Elect Joseph R. Biden The year 2020 has been unprecedented, and was capped with an unparalleled election. Our country is still in the midst of a global pandemic; our national economy is suffering; and many Americans are uncertain of the future. Yet, NPMHU members and our postal brothers […]
On behalf of the National Association of Letter Carriers, which represents 285,000 active and retired letter carriers around the country, we congratulate President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory today. This country, like our union, is comprised of diverse and passionate voters ranging from conservative to liberal and everyone in between. […]
Statement of Paul V. Hogrogian, National President of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, on the Endorsement of Joe Biden for President (pdf) NPMHU members are facing unprecedented times. Despite the USPS being the most trusted federal agency, often it feels as if our work is undervalued and unappreciated by elected officials. We’ve seen attacks against […]