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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...
Essential Workers and Postal Déjà Vu
May 7, 2021
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
You have always been ‘essential’ to America; the pandemic only proved it. Your work affects everyone in the USA and impacts the economy. Why then do...
How to Challenge Your eWHEP Staffing Package
May 7, 2021
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Editor’s Note: The following column includes language from the Article 12 Impact Guide. The full guide is available on the Maintenance Division page on...
Here We Go Again
May 7, 2021
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The National Agreement expires in September of this year and contract negotiations with the Postal Service will open in June. The APWU has been preparing...
Looking Back on 50 Years of the APWU with Former Secretary-Treasurer Doug Holbrook
May 7, 2021
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Editor’s Note: For the APWU’s 50th anniversary celebration, we spoke with former Secretary-Treasurer Doug Holbrook on the Great Postal Strike, the merger...
Happy Anniversary APWU: 50 Years of Struggle and Progress
May 7, 2021
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, turns 50 years old on July 1, 2021! We were created after the 1970 Great Postal Strike from a merger of five...