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November 8, 2025
Award on USPS Use of Casuals in Lieu of Career Employees
An award by Arbitrator Shyam Das sustaining the APWU’s grievance over the Postal Service’s improper use of casuals in lieu of career employees.
November 8, 2025
The Alliance Releases Annual Voting Record Rating Congress
On Thursday, the Alliance released its annual report detailing the voting record of every U.S. Representative and Senator on issues important to current and future retirees. The voting record looks at 10 key votes in bot...
November 8, 2025
Appeals Pending in Important Cases Affecting Preference-Eligible Veterans
Any veterans' preference-eligible employee who gets a notice that his or her duty assignment has been abolished and that he or she will become unassigned, should immediately ask a manager whether there are duty assignmen...
November 8, 2025
Maintenance Selection System & Non-MSS Positions
There are two categories of positions in the Maintenance Craft – MSS positions and Non-MSS positions — with a different application process for each category. The "pecking order" for filling positions is the same. (See J...
November 8, 2025
Earn a Business Degree Online
Union members who are interested in starting a business, improving the performance of an existing business, or who are simply interested in acquiring business knowledge can do so by earning an online Bachelor of Arts Deg...
November 8, 2025
Preserve Private-Sector Jobs in Southern Ohio
An APWU drive to organize several hundred workers at DHL’s ABX “hub” in southwestern Ohio has shifted gears: The APWU is now at the forefront of a community-based campaign to try to preserve approximately 7,000 jobs.
November 8, 2025
e-Team Report, April 5, 2013
Congress Back In Session Next Week, Look for New Co-Sponsors To Postal Bills Vacancies and Retirements in the 113th Congress A Look Ahead to 2014 Elections
November 8, 2025
Union Wins Debt Collection Act Case
In a recent national-level award, Arbitrator Linda Byars ruled that the ELM 460 provision allowing for collection of postal debts by the Postal Service in increments greater than 15% of an employee’s disposable pay or 20...
November 8, 2025
e-Team Report, April 20, 2012
Tell Your Senators to Support Key Amendments to S. 1789
November 8, 2025
APWU Nurses Advised That Contract – Though Expired – Still Offers Protection
As the bargaining team for APWU-represented nurses prepares for interest arbitration hearings beginning in late March, Support Services Division Director Bill Manley assured the unit’s members that the terms of their exp...
November 8, 2025
Breakfast for Champions
Supporting the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team is the latest endeavor for the APWU Human Relations Department. APWU locals and state organizations are being called upon to host a breakfast and rally our members to...
November 8, 2025
OIG ‘Special Agents’ Don’t Have Special Rights
In a recent decision, the Employees Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB) ruled that the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) acted improperly when it terminated the benefits of an injured worker based on evidence...
November 8, 2025
Dispute Over Consolidation of Districts Appealed to Arbitration
The APWU has appealed to arbitration a dispute over the Postal Service's unilateral consolidation of six USPS Districts. By letter dated May 12, 2009, the union was informed that six district offices had been consolidate...
November 8, 2025
Postal Unions Form Historic Alliance
Our survival as postal workers depends on our ability to build a genuine bond between the four postal unions. We share the same goals – a vibrant, public Postal Service, good pay and benefits, a safe work environment, an...
November 8, 2025
Settlement Reached in Individual Retirement Counseling Dispute [pdf]
On September 21, 2009, the APWU and the Postal Service reached a pre-arbitration settlement over a dispute concerning management’s responsibility to provide individual retirement counseling for employees.
November 8, 2025
e-Team Report, Dec. 2, 2011
APWU Backed Workers Compensation Bill Passes U.S. House of Representatives Voter ID Laws Attack Voters' Rights NLRB Rule Changes
November 8, 2025
Dispute Over Unilateral Elimination of Local Individual Retirement Counseling
This dispute concerns revisions to Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM) Sections 569.1 and 589.1, Retirement Counseling.
November 8, 2025
When OWCP Denies Compensation Based On a Previous Lost Wage Earning Capacity (LWEC) Determination
Some employees who have had their medically suitable job withdrawn by the Postal Service as a result of the National Reassessment Process (NRP) are being denied wage loss compensation by OWCP because of a previous LWEC d...
November 8, 2025
Faster Decisions for Veterans
The Fully Developed Claims (FDC) program is an optional new initiative being offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide faster, more accurate decisions to veterans, U.S. service members and survivors w...
November 8, 2025
OIG ‘Fraud’ Campaign
Who’s scamming who? The USPS Office of Inspector General recently launched a “Workers’ Compensation Fraud Campaign.” In typical OIG fashion, one of its strategies involves demonizing injured workers by having an actor po...
November 8, 2025
Long-Term Care Insurance Update
The Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP) was created by the Long Term Care Security Act, which was signed into law by President Clinton on Sept. 19, 2000. Fifteen months later, the Office of Personnel Manage...
November 8, 2025
e-Team Report, Aug. 5, 2011
74,000 FAA Workers Idled Due to One Anti-Labor Congressman Senate Democrats Request Justice Department Review of New Voter ID Laws Professor's Blog Fights USPS Closings
November 8, 2025
Dispute Over Individual Retirement Counseling Appealed to Arbitration
The APWU has appealed to national-level arbitration a dispute over the Postal Service's unilateral decision that resulted in the discontinuation of established local methods of providing individual retirement counseling...
November 8, 2025
Who Do You Believe?
There is an expression, “Who do you believe – your lying eyes or me?” Well, APWU union representatives are accustomed to managers being less than honest about their actions during Labor-Management meetings and at various...
November 8, 2025
Leave Accrual
Employees earn sick and annual leave in accordance with postal regulations found in Subchapter 510 of the Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM). Article 10, Section 2, of the National Agreement provides that "The lea...
November 8, 2025
For Many Locals, It’s LM Reporting Time
All APWU locals and retiree chapters that receive dues rebates from the national union must file an annual financial report with the Department of Labor. The reports are required by the Labor Management Reporting and Dis...
November 8, 2025
MVS Settles Dispute Over Postal Operations Manual
In December 2012 the APWU resolved a long-simmering dispute with the Postal Service, involving who can drive postal vehicles, as well as other matters that affect the union’s ability to protect Motor Vehicle Craft jobs....
November 8, 2025
Collective Bargaining Agreements
Current and past Collective Bargaining Agreements
November 8, 2025
Post-Convention Workshops
The Research & Education Department is proud to announce that the APWU will sponsor its 10th Educational Conference, a National Convention event that provides union members with a wealth of information to take home to th...
November 8, 2025
e-Team Report, Feb. 1, 2013
Upcoming Senate Hearing on Postal Finances Who Is Your Legislative & Political Grassroots Coordinator? USPS Job Cuts Weigh Heavily on Minorities and Veterans Postal Reform Can’t Wait! AFL-CIO’s Favors Comprehensive Immi...