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This is a 'Code Red Alert' to APWU Veterans

January 21, 2025
In the last Home Front article, we warned veterans about “Project 2025” and how a second Trump term would destroy the VA, and VA healthcare benefits. Unfortunately for our APWU veteran family, his Project 2025 plan to destroy VA healthcare could...

USPS Announces Termination of FSAFEDS Accounts for 2025 Plan Year, Provides New Enrollment Option for Affected Employees

January 17, 2025
On Dec. 30, 2024, the Postal Service notified the APWU that it is informing employees who enrolled in the FSAFEDS Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for plan year 2025 that their accounts will be terminated. FSAFEDS is no longer the FSA administrator...

The Fight for Pay Equity

March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)  The Equal Pay Act, signed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963, made it illegal to pay men and women working the same job different salaries....

Excerise Your Precious Right to Organize

March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Organizing is our union’s strength and essential to our survival. When contract negotiations take place, inevitably non-members ask questions about...

Our Members Expect Change

March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Editor's Note: Below are excerpts from President Dimondstein's opening statement at contract negotiations. The American Postal Workers Union welcomes...

Join the Battle to Save America's Postal Service!

March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The time to act is now! On Nov. 14, 2014, our national day of action, we had protests at 150 sites and at least one activity in every state. It was...

How You Can Fight Money in Politics

March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Postal workers’ allies in the 114th Congress are attempting to reverse the drastic slowdown of the mail caused by postal management’s decision to...

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