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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...

Legislative & Political Hatch Act Training

July 9, 2020
The Legislative & Political Department will be hosting a Hatch Act Zoom Training Webinar on July 22, 2020 at 2:00 PM EST. The upcoming 2020 Election is quickly approaching. It is vital that all members know their rights and responsibilities...

Work Year List

July 8, 2020
The APWU and the USPS have agreed to the work year list for the term of the 2018-2021 National Agreement.  Work years (formally known as man-years) is a term the utilized by the APWU and the Postal Service to define the size of postal installations...

Postal Service Emergency Assistance Act, S. 4174

July 7, 2020
On July 2nd, Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Diane Feinstein (D-CA) introduced the Postal Service Emergency Assistance Act, S. 4174.  This legislation would create a $25 billion fund for the Postal Service to recoup COVID related losses and...

A Common Goal

July 1, 2020
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) APWU is not alone in our fight to secure funding for the Postal Service in the next stimulus. We are joined by workers, unions, community and civil...

Pandemic Underscores Need for Postal Banking

July 1, 2020
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The modern movement for postal banking in the United States was born out of the ashes of the 2008-2009 Great Recession. One of the early effects of...

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