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This is a 'Code Red Alert' to APWU Veterans

January 21, 2025
In the last Home Front article, we warned veterans about “Project 2025” and how a second Trump term would destroy the VA, and VA healthcare benefits. Unfortunately for our APWU veteran family, his Project 2025 plan to destroy VA healthcare could...

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...

From the Field

May 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)  Below are quotes from various APWU local and state publications throughout the country. All the publications listed are part of the Postal Press...

There's More to Being a Member than Just Paying Dues

May 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)  By Northeast Region Coordinator John Dirzius  As I proudly travel the Northeast Region and speak with workers, I always ask if there are any new members...

PS Form 50 Personnel Actions

May 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)  By Support Services Director Steve Brooks  I am writing this as an attempt to inform APWU officers and employees at all levels across the country of...

'Keep on Truckin' Baby'

May 1, 2018
MVS Director Michael Foster (fifth from right) and  Assistant MVS Director Javier Piñeres (far left) with  MVS members and USPS representatives  in front of newly tested cargo trucks. (This article first appeared in the May-June 2018 issue of The...

MS-1 Settlement Reached

May 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Maintenance Craft Directors  On Feb. 27, 2018, the USPS and the Maintenance Division reached a resolution regarding the MS-1 Handbook revisions that...

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