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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...
TISA: Another Secret Trade Deal Threatens Public Postal Service, Workers
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
A trade deal the U.S. is negotiating behind closed doors with 50 other countries threatens the future of public- and private-sector services, including...
National Day of Action Set for Thursday, May 14
May 1, 2015
APWU members are turning up the heat with a National Day of Action on May 14 – just one week before the union’s Collective Bargaining Agreement is slated to expire.
APWU members will hold events in cities and towns across the country, organized...
May Day Celebration
May 1, 2015
APWU President Mark Dimondstein spoke at a celebration of International Workers Day sponsored by the AFL-CIO on the eve of the holiday. Although May Day – which originated in the fight for the eight-hour day in Chicago – is not officially...
Contract Negotiations: Union Members Say it with Stickers, Flyers and More
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Members of the San Jose Area Local
distribute flyers outside a post office.
Stickers and flyers and headbands, oh my!
As contract negotiations continue...
Shining a Light on Secret Money
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Since 2010, the amount of “dark money” – campaign funds whose source is kept secret – has skyrocketed, thanks to the Supreme Court ruling known as...