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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...

Canadian Postal Workers Win Big

January 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Thanks to the efforts of postal workers and their allies, Canada Post has suspended the installation of community mailboxes, preserving door-to-...

Postal Banking Catches Fire

January 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Postal banking has been in the news quite a bit in recent months: Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders discussed it on Jimmy Kimmel Live; a new...

Solidarity Is Always In Style

January 1, 2016
Northwest Illinois Area Local (This article first appeared in the January-February 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Thursday is Wear Your Union Gear Day, and APWU members have been busy each week, wearing their solidarity on...

Feeling the Bern!

January 1, 2016
Sen. Bernie Sanders discusses postal banking on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (This article first appeared in the January-February 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) During the two years I have served as APWU president I have made many...

Stop Staples Campaign Marches On

January 1, 2016
Members of the New York Metro Area Local and  supporters give Staples the thumbs down. (This article first appeared in the January-February 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Thanks to members and allies across the country, the Stop...

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