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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...
Democracy Initiative Aims to Take Money Out of Politics
March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Alarmed by the increasing role of corporate funding of elections and the suppression of voting rights in recent elections, a coalition known as the...
Mental Health Workers at Kaiser Hospitals Strike
March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
“Mental health, not corporate wealth!”
That’s the plea of 2,600 National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) mental health employees at Kaiser...
The TPP: A Secret, Dirty Deal
March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
A trade deal the U.S. is negotiating in secret with 11 other countries would slash labor rights; obstruct access to medication; degrade food safety...
APWU Joins "Government Works for America" Rally
March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Members of the APWU endured freezing temperatures with their brothers and sisters from other federal and postal unions at a “Government Works for...
'Stop Staples' Campaign Disrupts Privatization Push
March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Since the Postal Service launched its no-bid deal with Staples, thousands of postal workers and supporters have made headlines boycotting and...