Search for Articles

E.g., 01/20/2025
E.g., 01/20/2025

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...

Young Workers Summit Makes a Splash in Chicago

May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) More than a thousand young unionists, activists and organizers convened in Chicago from March 19-22 for the Next Up: Young Workers Summit, sponsored by...

USW Strikers Get a Contract

May 1, 2015
Stop Staples supporters join the USW on the picket line. (This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) After a six-week strike, the United Steel Workers Union and Shell Oil agreed on a new national...

NYC Zara Workers Get a Raise

May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) After months of protest and pressure from a workers campaign, Zara clothing retail workers in New York City received a raise. In a letter to employees,...

Postal Clerk Remembers Bloody Sunday

May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Distribution Clerk George James was just 15 when he tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. He says he had no idea history would be...

May Day: Fighting for the Eight-Hour Day

April 30, 2015
Chicago in the 1880s was a hotbed of labor organizing. Fed up with the status quo, where industrial workers toiled long hours in squalid conditions, the International Working People’s Association formed in 1883 and dedicated its resources to...

Pages