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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...

Postal Workers and Allies: Stop the Slowdown!

January 17, 2025
Stop the Slowdown! The Postal Service proposed plans to decrease service standards to the detriment of our communities. Here’s why hundreds of thousands members of the public are standing up and fighting back against efforts to degrade the country’s...

Is Staples Cheating Its Employees?

January 21, 2014
Is Staples guilty of chronically cheating its employees out of their hard-earned wages?

e-Team Report, Jan. 17, 2014

January 17, 2014
Congress Approves HR 3547 -- Awaiting Presidential Signature Ranking Member of Homeland Security and  Government Affairs Committee to Retire Mid-Term Legislative Updates: S. 316/H.R.630, Postal Service Protection Act H.R. 961, United States Postal...

Union Delivers the Message At Bay Area Staples Stores

January 17, 2014
APWU leaders in California recently delivered the union’s message to 13 Staples stores in the San Francisco Bay area: Opening postal retail units staffed by non-USPS employees is a disservice to postal workers and the nation’s mail service.

Postal Workers and Customers Deserve Better

January 16, 2014
Local union leaders are winning allies for the union’s campaign against a pilot program that placed postal retail centers in more than 80 Staples stores, reports Northeast Region Coordinator John Dirzius.

OTDL Employees on Penalty Overtime To be Priority-Scheduled over Casuals

January 16, 2014
In a decision issued Nov. 19, 2013, Arbitrator Shyam Das sustained the APWU’s position that full-time employees on the Overtime Desired List (OTDL) must be scheduled for overtime ahead of casual employees on overtime, even if the OTDL employees...

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