American Postal Workers Union
American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIOwww.apwu.org
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Oct 22, 2026
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A week earlier, he had been exposed to the deadly poison when an envelope containing the powdery substance was opened at the mail distribution center where he worked.
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Thomas Morris was a member of the American Postal Workers Union.
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His union brother, Joseph Kersine, died two days later.
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Both men worked at the U.S.
Rick SmithHOST
A week earlier, he had been exposed to the deadly poison when an envelope containing the powdery substance was opened at the mail distribution center where he worked.
Rick SmithHOST
Thomas Morris was a member of the American Postal Workers Union.
Rick SmithHOST
His union brother, Joseph Kersine, died two days later.
Rick SmithHOST
Both men worked at the U.S.
Derek LiemohnGUEST
After his failed presidential run, the establishment took conservatorship of his branch.
Derek LiemohnGUEST
And then once he did win – What did he do when he went into negotiations? He walked in with the APWU president and they both threatened to strike.
Derek LiemohnGUEST
That was how the letter carrier and the postal service in general became this model employer that set the standard for the rest of the delivery industry.
ChrisHOST
Yeah.
Rick SmithHOST
A week earlier, he had been exposed to the deadly poison when an envelope containing the powdery substance was opened at the mail distribution center where he worked.
Rick SmithHOST
Thomas Morris was a member of the American Postal Workers Union.
Rick SmithHOST
His union brother, Joseph Kersine, died two days later.
Rick SmithHOST
Both men worked at the U.S.
Derek LiemohnGUEST
It should be on YouTube this week now also.
Derek LiemohnGUEST
Our first 11 episodes are an audiobook of this really important history of the Postal Service and the Postal Unions.
Derek LiemohnGUEST
It's called Undelivered.
Derek LiemohnGUEST
And we made it because we are currently running a reading group on it.
Alan GegaxHOST
Well, you'll, you'll do a better job of this.
Alan GegaxHOST
Give my listeners the broad strokes of what the book is about undelivered.
Derek LiemohnGUEST
Yeah, it is a long overview of what labor was like at the postal unions, or the creation of the postal unions in response to the poor labor conditions of the post office after the Civil War.
Derek LiemohnGUEST
And the first half is a long background of what led up to the 1970 strike.
Miriam BellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We take extraordinary care with the processing of ballots.
Zimun PerezHOST
As voters begin casting ballots in the midterm elections, Charlotte-area American Postal Workers Union President Miriam Bell explains postal workers are nonpartisan and dedicated to getting your ballot where it needs to go.
Zimun PerezHOST
President Donald Trump has waged a legal battle against vote-by-mail practices since his loss to former President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Zimun PerezHOST
This past March, Trump issued an executive order that required states to upload eligible voter lists onto a federal database and allowed the Postal Service to restrict mail-in ballot delivery if states didn't comply.
Zimone PerezCORRESPONDENT
the agency to rescind the rule altogether.
Zimone PerezCORRESPONDENT
Miriam Bell is the president of American Postal Workers Union Local 375 in Charlotte.
Zimone PerezCORRESPONDENT
She says postal workers are nonpartisan and dedicated to making sure ballots get where they need to go.
Miriam BellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
As postal workers, we do not look at whether you're voting red or blue or independent.
David GrosskopfGUEST
You know, these S&DCs going in destroyed that service and delivery standard in those communities.
David GrosskopfGUEST
Um, you know, and again, the, the, the S&DC was, uh, something that hurt our sister union, the APWU.
David GrosskopfGUEST
It's, it was a loss, net loss of jobs for them.
David GrosskopfGUEST
Usually, the S&DCs are a net gain of jobs for letter carriers, but we talk about solidarity, we talk about supporting each other.
David GrosskopfGUEST
You know, the APWU president called me up and said, "D- Dave, I need your help.
David GrosskopfGUEST
You know, you're, you're the guy and, and, you know, can you help me out?" And I said, "Absolutely." And I've told this story, uh, quite a bit.
David GrosskopfGUEST
You know, at the time, Brian, uh, Higgins, was my congressional representative.
KristenHOST
And as a result of the, that contract negotiation, um, and I'm not gonna get into the, all the nitty-gritty, but there ended up being a 2012 Clark Arbitration Award that was given, and as a result of it, the two big notable things that happened as a result of this, um, and I'll back up a little bit too.
KristenHOST
The APWU was negotiating with the Postal Service prior to us, prior to the, to the NRLCA, the rural carriers.
JoshHOST
Oh.
KristenHOST
And-
Tom CoteHOST
You ready for this? The United States Postal Service is putting cameras on the dashboards of its mail carrier trucks that continuously scan roads and signs, map roadways and sidewalks and improve community safety.
Tom CoteHOST
It's always in the name of safety, right? I feel so safe, don't you? No? The trial, which may expand across the U.S., was communicated via a letter written by the USPS, the United States Postal Service, Labor Relations on September 18th and addressed to the president of the Postal Workers Union, Brian Renfro.
Tom CoteHOST
The letter claims the cameras will initially be trialed in the Washington, D.C. area to test infrastructure data.
Tom CoteHOST
The cameras will scan and analyze roads, signage and map roadways and sidewalks.
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