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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...
USPS, Staples Produce a Mound of Documents
November 2, 2015
The mound of documents produced by USPS and Staples
After months of refusing to provide documents subpoenaed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the APWU, the USPS and Staples produced a mound of paperwork on Oct. 20, less than two...
A Change of Heart for the NLRB?
November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
In a string of recent decisions, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled decisively in favor of workers. As a result, President...
A Gift that Keeps on Giving
November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
We have a tradition in this country of celebrating birthdays by sending cards and giving gifts.
Rep. Allan Grayson (D-FL) celebrated Medicare’s...
Workers Comp Fraud Investigations
November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Special agents of the Postal Service Office of the Inspector General (OIG) are contracted to “safeguard postal revenue” and are supposed to “...
Disability Compensation
November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Disability compensation is a monthly, tax-free benefit paid to veterans because of injuries or diseases that were incurred or were aggravated...