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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...
USPS and APWU Reach Function 1 and 4 Staffing Increase Agreement
March 23, 2021
Postal Management and the American Postal Workers Union signed another Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to continue to address the significant understaffing at mail processing facilities and post offices throughout the country.
Under the terms of...
Latest COVID MOUs and Liberal Leave Policy Extensions
March 19, 2021
President Dimondstein signed extensions on the COVID MOUs today through June 4, 2021
American Rescue Plan Act: Update on Emergency Federal Employee Leave (EFEL)
March 18, 2021
Multiple questions have been submitted regarding the recently passed stimulus bill known as the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). Under section Title IV Section 4001 of the bill, funding for Emergency Federal Employee Leave (EFEL) was...
Biden signs $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill Into Law
March 13, 2021
On Thursday March 11, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 into law, providing desperately needed relief to America’s working class and stabilizing communities across the country.
Imperfect Storm
March 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The mail system is in chaos. Postal workers are tired and frustrated. Customers are angry.
Despite the courageous efforts, hard work and dedication of...