With the membership fully informed on the issues, and a healthy, open dialogue, the American Postal Workers Union will indeed be prepared to move forward and fight back. Over 80 years, we've had, and continue to have, an ongoing set of ties that bind, an ongoing understanding that although we may be two different movements, we really represent one cause. Mfume examined the various issues that affect working-class families on institutional, social, educational and economic levels. Families, military, churches, unions and schools, according to the civil rights leader, are under attack. Discrimination against race and skin color still dominate too many aspects of American life.
Schools are overcrowded and ill equipped.
And working-class families are too low on the economic ladder. The importance of organizing, though, punctuated Mfume's address. We'll have a diminished voice in our community if we don't grow stronger. On the second day of the 1998 National Convention, delegates passed an historic resolution that will serve as a guide for APWU negotiators in the upcoming contract talks with USPS management. The resolution is important because, although the convention always passes numerous resolutions on contract issues, it has never before laid out a specific guide mandating exactly which issues negotiators must focus on.