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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...
MVS Challenges Zero Base Review
March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The APWU initiated a National Dispute on January 29, 2021, challenging the Postal Service’s National Zero Base review program and Transportation...
Postal Workers Are Essential Workers
March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Moving forward into 2021, we can be amazed and be proud of how we persevered and managed to get through the past year of COVID-19 battered but unbowed...
COVID-19 Spotlights the Need to Continue the Fight for Safety and Health
March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Every year on April 28, workers come together for Workers Memorial Day to remember those who have died, been injured, or contracted an occupational...
Who Conducts Function Four Reviews (or Scams) in the Middle of a Pandemic?
March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The Postal Service intends to conduct 607 Level 3 Function 4 reviews and 8,772 modified Level 2 Function 4 reviews in offices across the country....
Custodial Team Cleaning Failed the COVID Test
March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
In the March-April 2019 issue, we raised the alarm that the Custodial Team Cleaning Program (CTC), along with its chemicals, was doomed to fail. We...