{"id":14974,"date":"2025-11-12T16:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/?p=14974"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:26:37","slug":"jonathan-smith-takes-office-as-apwu-national-president-promises-bold-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/?p=14974","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Smith Takes Office as APWU National President, Promises Bold Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"APWU President Jonathan Smith Releases First Message in Office\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1wy_tVa4Ewc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonathan Smith officially assumed the role of national president of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) on Wednesday, delivering a passionate video message to members that signaled an aggressive stance against privatization and a commitment to transformational change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBuckle up because this ride is going to be one of the greatest rides that you have ever gotten on,\u201d Smith declared in his inaugural address to the APWU family, emphasizing his readiness to fight for postal workers\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith, who thanked members for their support and votes, immediately outlined the challenges ahead, including combating privatization efforts and resisting Post Office closings and consolidations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new president stressed that success would require collective action, stating, \u201cI cannot do this alone. This has to be a \u2018we\u2019 and not a \u2018me.\u2019\u201d He pledged to lead with integrity while fighting with everything he has to protect postal workers and the services they provide to the American people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith paid tribute to his predecessor, Mark Dimondstein, who served 12 years as national president. \u201cTwelve years of blood, sweat, and tears that he gave the American Postal Workers Union. And we want to honor him for that,\u201d Smith said, while noting that \u201cthe battle continues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Invoking the words of legendary APWU President Moe Biller, Smith emphasized that \u201cthe struggle continues\u201d and committed to fighting \u201cto the very end.\u201d He expressed pride in leading the union and maintaining its tradition of service to the American people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new president also invited members to share their concerns and ideas for improvement, promising a \u201ctransformation of organization\u201d and expressing barely contained excitement about the union\u2019s future direction under his leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Smith officially assumed the role of national president of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) on Wednesday, delivering a passionate video message to members that signaled an aggressive stance against privatization and a commitment to transformational change. \u201cBuckle up because this ride is going to be one of the greatest rides that you have ever gotten on,\u201d Smith declared in his inaugural address to the APWU family, emphasizing his readiness to fight for postal [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14979,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974\/revisions\/14979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}