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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...
Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 15, 2015
The APWU joins the nation in celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was one of the greatest civil rights leaders of all time and a true champion of labor.
Service Cuts Disrupt Workers’ Lives
January 13, 2015
When postal officials lowered “service standards” on Jan. 5, they didn’t just slow down America’s mail: They set in motion a process that is causing serious disruption in the lives of thousands of hard-working postal employees. As management...
e-Team Report, Jan. 12, 2015
January 12, 2015
New Congress Convenes
The 114th Congress convened last week, with Republicans assuming full control of the body for the first time in 8 years.
Republicans captured control of the Senate and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will lead a...
Mitch McConnell Raises the Possibility of a Grand Bargain with President Obama
January 12, 2015
In his first major speech since becoming the new Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY) challenged President Obama to work with him, hinting that he is interested in a “Grand Bargain.” McConnell outlined an ambitious plan that includes...
New MOU to Create Hundreds of Career Jobs in Level 4 POStPlan Offices
January 12, 2015
An addendum to the Sept. 22, 2013, POStPLAN Memorandum of Understanding will place a number of career jobs into Level 4 post offices, which otherwise would have been staffed exclusively with Postal Support Employees (PSEs). The offices in question...