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Your Work During the Election Matters: A Message to Every Postal Worker

November 4, 2024
I want to acknowledge the incredible dedication and effort each of you has put into ensuring every mail-in ballot is delivered on time. The hard work of postal workers helps ensure every voice is heard and every vote is counted. Once again, we’ve...

Upcoming Proposed Flexible Spending Account Changes

October 30, 2024
The APWU was recently notified of the proposed change to the FSA (Flexible Spending Account) administrator. FSA is an important negotiated benefit as it allows employees to put aside “pre-tax” dollars for certain medical and dependent care expenses.

Arbitration Victory Creates Full-Time Assignments

March 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By Clerk Craft Directors The Clerk Craft was successful in a recent arbitration regarding the USPS’s handling of the Sales Retention Team (SRT)...

USPS Testing New Machine to Automate Craft Work

March 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By Maintenance Craft Directors  The new year certainly started with a bang! while we are, of course, very proud of the efforts of the Maintenance...

Working Together to Reduce the Arbitration Backlog

March 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell Presently, there is an arbitration backlog and the reason is simple. The grievances appealed to arbitration are...

Starting 2017 with a Bang!

March 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman I was never a more proud member of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) than when news broke...

Unity and Activism - Key to Victory!

March 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2017  issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By President Mark Dimondstein After a dynamic three-year campaign, we have won the Stop Staples fight! Postal management informed the APWU in...

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