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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...

Contract Negotiations Update

September 17, 2015
Members of the Wilmington DE/Malcolm T Smith Area Local in their union gear. APWU President Mark Dimondstein has issued the following update on contract negotiations: As we say in our union, “The Struggle Continues…”  And our struggle to secure a...

Rallying to Restore the Voting Rights Act

September 16, 2015
The APWU joined the NAACP, Democracy Initiative, and other labor and activist groups in Upper Senate Park on Sept. 16 for a rally to restore the Voting Rights Act.

Royal Mail Customer Speaks Out Against Privatization, Backs Staples Boycott

September 15, 2015
While leafletting in front of the Staples location at 1500 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Stop Staples protesters ran into Jane Caplan, who was visiting from Oxford, England.

APWU Goes to Court Over Service Standards

September 15, 2015
The APWU filed a brief in D.C. Circuit Court on Sept. 14 against the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), arguing that USPS service standards must be “legally enforceable.” In 2013, the union filed a complaint with the commission asserting that the...

Exemption Sought by Subcontractors Jeopardizes Road Safety

September 14, 2015
Private subcontractors that haul mail for the U.S. Postal Service are seeking an exemption from federal safety rules that prohibit commerical drivers from operating a truck after more than 14 hours on duty following a 10-hour break. Do we even need...

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