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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...
Have You Seen the Video?
March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
The launch of A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service featured the debut of a 2-minute video, “Our Postal Service,” featuring actor-...
A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service
March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
On Feb. 12, more than 60 national organizations joined forces to launch A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service. The debut of the...
On the Worker Floor: Stickers and More
March 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
As negotiations began, APWU members on the work floor expressed solidarity.
Across the country members wore stickers on opening day that said, “Good...
From ‘Collective Begging’ Collective Bargaining
February 28, 2015
March 2015 marks the 45th anniversary of the Great Postal Strike of 1970. The courage and solidarity shown by thousands of union members during the wildcat job action resulted in vastly improved wages and benefits.
Rose Schneiderman Organizes Garment Workers in New York
February 28, 2015
Rose Schneiderman was a trailblazer for workers’ rights in the Lower East Side of New York City at the turn of the 20th Century. She organized and co-founded several unions, was a friend and advisor to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and was a...