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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...

Postal Workers Weathered the Storm

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The past 15 months has been challenging and stressful for postal workers. The COVID-19 pandemic spared no one, touching almost everyone in some way,...

Investing in Retail and the Customer Experience – Clerks Care

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In an effort to offer more postal products and services and increase revenue, the Clerk Division has held several meetings with the Postal Service...

APWU Retirees Still Fighting for Justice

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Eliminate the WEP and GPO This year, as we have done in the past, retirees recognize the anniversary of Social Security, created in August 1935, and...

Cause of Asthma

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) No one really knows what causes asthma. What we do know is that asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. When airways come into...

APWU Veterans Network Established

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO is proud to announce the formal establishment of the APWU Veterans Network. This group is comprised of APWU...

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