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Keep Calling Congress to Oppose Cuts to Postal and Federal Pensions
May 19, 2025
In the late night hours of Sunday, May 18, 2025, the House Budget Committee voted by a margin of 17-16 to advance a bill that would give $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy on the backs of the working class. Just two days prior, the same...
Flip the Script on Aging
May 19, 2025
Retirees Director Nancy Olumekor encourages retirees to honor Older Americans Month by flipping the script on aging - reframe our mindsets and focus on the positive aspects of growing older while fostering relationships with the community around us.
Award on Obligation to Notify APWU of Withdrawal of CFR Revision
Arbitrator Linda Byars sustained the union's position that in order to make moot the union's appeal to arbitration of a proposed revision to a regulation which the Postal Service does not intend to implement, the Service is required to notify the...
Retirement Systems Modernization
Among the most difficult decisions that employees have to make are those regarding retirement. Many APWU members wait too long to gather and study the information needed to make good post-career choices.
Trampling on Veterans' Rights
A recent regional Merit Systems Protection Board decision rejected the appeal of an APWU veteran who had been involuntarily demoted to a lower grade. "Appellant may well be performing lower-graded duties," the board ruled, "but, absent an official...
e-Team Report, Jan. 24, 2014
S.1486 Postal Reform Act of 2014 Amended “Carper/Coburn Bill”
Breaking News: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2013 Union Membership Report
Arbitrator Rules 'Separation of Casuals' Language in Article 12 Applies Only to Casuals in the Impacted Craft
In a recent National Association of Letter Carriers’ (NALC) national arbitration award, Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled that “[t]he provision in Article 12.5.C.5.a (2) for ‘separation of all casuals’ applies to casuals in the affected or losing craft,...