{"id":15703,"date":"2016-07-24T13:59:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T18:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15703"},"modified":"2016-07-24T14:12:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T19:12:39","slug":"activist-for-change-seeks-apwu-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/07\/24\/activist-for-change-seeks-apwu-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist for Change Seeks APWU Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15704\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jerry-Stidman-for-APWU-President.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry-Stidman-for-APWU-President\" width=\"403\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jerry-Stidman-for-APWU-President.jpg 403w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jerry-Stidman-for-APWU-President-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jerry-Stidman-for-APWU-President-186x173.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jerry Stidman a member of the American Postal Workers Union from Terre Haute, Indiana ramps up his campaign to gain their national presidency.\u00a0 Stidman, a leading activist for a vibrant public post office with an all-union workforce will champion a positive message for change.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The APWU represent over 200,000 active and retired postal workers.\u00a0 These postal employees work in the clerical,maintenance, and motor vehicle service areas of the post office.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stidman said, \u201cWe will work to improve working conditions on our workroom floor.\u00a0 Strive to improve wages and benefits for all of our members.\u00a0 We will reach out to Congress to launch pro labor legislation.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He has authored petitions that have been signed by hundreds of thousands of people from across the USA. Most of his petitions are about improving the US Postal Service and present a pro-labor message.\u00a0 Stidman is also the founder of a popular series of social media pages titled \u201cSave Our Post Office.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I believe there is an open window to change the public dialog about the post office.\u201d Responded Stidman,\u00a0 \u201cMy administration will work to engage media in new and creative ways.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His vision for activism is fresh and creative.\u00a0 Jerry will expand on ideas started by the current administration and add new ones.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThere is no reason we can\u2019t gain the support of more people for our cause.\u00a0 Thus we will have the opportunity for legislation that benefits our workers.\u201d Jerry said,\u00a0 \u201cThe right to establish a public post office is guaranteed early in the US Constitution.\u00a0 We are a mainstream cause.\u00a0 We must market ourselves to the American people in the same way.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stidman is a firm believer in a more transparent union with greater representation.\u00a0 He has a strong conviction the individual member has the right to all information not deemed sensitive in a timely manner.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cMy goal is for a very transparent APWU National. Our members have the right to know more information faster.\u201d Said Stidman, \u201cWe will work to fill empty NBA positions and improve the grievance procedure.\u00a0 Our national grievance procedure is slow and ineffective.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To learn more about Jerry Stidman visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stidmanforpresident.org\/\">http:\/\/www.stidmanforpresident.org\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Stidman a member of the American Postal Workers Union from Terre Haute, Indiana ramps up his campaign to gain their national presidency.\u00a0 Stidman, a leading activist for a vibrant public post office with an all-union workforce will champion a positive message for change. The APWU represent over 200,000 active and retired postal workers.\u00a0 These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15703"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15714,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15703\/revisions\/15714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}