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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...
APWU Fights Consolidation/Closure Plans
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
We have the power to influence those who are the target leaders who can stop consolidations/closures. Work with me and our National Fightback...
Contract Negotiations Begin
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
On June 22, contract negotiations began with opening statements from Industrial Relations Director and chief spokesperson Vance Zimmerman, Executive...
Das 110 HCRs Noncompliance Award Issued
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
In our continuing commitment to require postal management’s compliance with the August 2016 arbitration decision rendered by national arbitrator Shyam...
Negotiations with USPS and Private Sector
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Negotiating new and successor collective bargaining agreements during this COVID-19 period has proved to be very challenging. The Support Services...
Mail Processing Equipment Arbitration
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The Maintenance National Officers arbitrated a section of Electronic Work Hours Estimated Program (eWHEP) on May 18-19, before a newly selected...