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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...
Conducting Union Business During COVID-19
July 1, 2020
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
As we navigate working through the various circumstances COVID-19 has placed upon all of us, finding and utilizing acceptable resources that will...
APWU and USPS Enter into Step 4 Settlement Agreements
July 1, 2020
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
On May 15, the APWU entered into two separate Step 4 Settlement Agreements with the Postal Service, regarding the Intrastate DOT physical requirement...
Temporary Resources for COVID-19 Related Cleaning Requirements
July 1, 2020
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
In order to accommodate those installations staffed by Maintenance Craft Custodians where supplemental cleaning resources are needed due to COVID-19...
August 12-13 National Arbitration “End of Day” Case before Arbitrator Das
July 1, 2020
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Violation of Global Remedy Settlement Agreement (End of Day) (Q10C-4Q-C 16050516)
On December 8, 2017, Arbitrator Das found that the “End of Day”...
Let Us Rise Up Against Deeply Rooted Racism!
July 1, 2020
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Our fights against COVID-19, deeply rooted racism in our institutions, organizations, and communities, and our fight to save the USPS as a public...