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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...

President Dimondstein Testifies Before Congress About Vote By Mail

July 1, 2020
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On June 11, President Dimondstein testified before a congressional hearing of the Committee on House Administration on Voting Rights and Election...

Conducting Union Business During COVID-19

July 1, 2020
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) As we navigate working through the various circumstances COVID-19 has placed upon all of us, finding and utilizing acceptable resources that will...

APWU and USPS Enter into Step 4 Settlement Agreements

July 1, 2020
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On May 15, the APWU entered into two separate Step 4 Settlement Agreements with the Postal Service, regarding the Intrastate DOT physical requirement...

Temporary Resources for COVID-19 Related Cleaning Requirements

July 1, 2020
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In order to accommodate those installations staffed by Maintenance Craft Custodians where supplemental cleaning resources are needed due to COVID-19...

August 12-13 National Arbitration “End of Day” Case before Arbitrator Das

July 1, 2020
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Violation of Global Remedy Settlement Agreement (End of Day) (Q10C-4Q-C 16050516) On December 8, 2017, Arbitrator Das found that the “End of Day”...

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