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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...

Walmart: Stop Fraud, Abuse in Charter Schools

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Recently, there have been many headlines about waste, fraud, and abuse at charter schools across the country. School districts lack the...

Momentum Demands Movement

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Momentum is defined as “mass in motion,” or “mass multiplied by velocity.” In the political arena, momentum is critical to getting legislation...

Settlement Reached On Payment to PSEs for Fingerprints

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The APWU and the Postal Service signed an agreement on July 15 that will compensate Postal Support Employees (PSEs) for the time they spent and...

The Union Election Process: Nominations

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Nominating candidates for office is a fundamental component of democratically electing union officers, and an important part of the election...

OSHA Slams Postal Service with Five Citations, $16,000 in Fines

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) After an onsite inspection, OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) slammed the Postal Service with five citations for violating...

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