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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...

Q & A with Quanisha Mcneal

March 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) From time-to-time, the American Postal Worker interviews union leaders to learn why they got involved in the American Postal Workers Union. In this...

Building on Our Success

March 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By Organization Director Anna Smith We had an outstanding finish in 2016 with approximately 21,000 new members joining the American Postal Workers...

Presumption of Service Connection for Select Diseases Associated with Lejeune Water

March 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By Human Relations Director Sue Carney  The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published new regulations establishing a presumptive service-...

Legislative Update

March 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By Legislative Director Judy Beard  The 115th Congress convened on Jan. 3, and legislators wasted no time introducing bills and resolutions of...

Promises, Promises

March 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By Western Region Coordinator Omar Gonzalez  I’m not referring to New Year’s resolutions many of us already broke. I refer to what promises to be an...

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