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APWU CENSORED

As Election Day approached, the right of APWU members to express their political views and endorse candidatesis was challenged. Although the union recently distributed a poster encouraging members to vote on November 5, we have been barred from presenting on union bulletin boards a list of candidates we support.

The names of APWU-endorsed candidates are posted on the union Web site, www.apwu.org, and we ask members to review that list before they decide which candidates to support in Tuesdays election. We hope that ourmembers will support candidates who best represent the interests of Americas working families.

We can post our endorsements on our Web site, but not on our bulletin boards, because of a challenge under the Hatch Act made by the Office of Special Counsel. It was just two years ago that a federal District Court upheld the APWUs right to post candidate endorsements. In that case,the federal judge who issued an injunction protecting the APWUs right to display a political poster described that poster as protected speech, classically protected speech.And in a decision earlier this year that again upheld thatright, a federal judge wrote that the legislative history of the Hatch Act does not offer a shred of support that Congress intended to prevent employees from exercising their rights as citizens to hang and view political posters on Union bulletin boards, located in traditional places in non-publicareas of post offices.

Nevertheless, the Special Counsel has again challenged the unions right to post its recommendations on our bulletin boards.

This fight for free speech, APWU President William Burrus said, is part of a broader struggle to ensure workers rights. Its important that we support candidates who will protect our right to work without fear of injury, to retire withdignity and security, to have a Medicare program that includesfull prescription-drug benefits, and to have a Social Security program that cannot be looted by the private sector.

We encourage everyone to vote, regardless of how they plan to vote, Burrus said. We encourage our members to vote to protect their job, their family and their future.