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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...

990s Are Due!

March 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)  For unions, filing IRS form 990 annually is not optional! failure to submit this report could result in significant monetary penalties and...

Bid Tracking System Goes Live March 9

March 1, 2016
The Bid Tracking System (BTS), which helps local unions ensure that all jobs are filled, will go “live” on March 9.  

A Chance for Change in 2016

March 1, 2016
Thousands of APWU members took part in the 2014 convention.  Get involved and join the fight for justice. (This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)  This year there is so much at stake for...

‘Grand Alliance’ to Hold Field Hearings

March 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) For the past year, A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service (AGA) has been sounding the alarm that our national treasure, the US Postal...

Augusta Thomas, Civil Rights, Labor Leader Honored

March 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)  Above: The original Greensboro sit-in participants. Insert, l-r: AFGE President J. David Cox, Dimondstein, Ms. Thomas, and museum founders Skip...

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