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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...

Living with Diabetes

January 11, 2021
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Diabetes is a disorder of your metabolism. There are three forms of diabetes – type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. Although diabetes is a...

COVID-19 Vaccines at the VA

January 11, 2021
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other federal partners...

Still Fighting for Justice

January 11, 2021
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) There is unfinished business in 2021. The legislative battles that we face this year can only be won if we work collectively. Working...

Organizing at Orientation

January 11, 2021
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Organizing is our union’s strength and essential to our survival. This past year we all faced obstacles like never before in both our home and...

Intimate Partner Violence on the Rise During COVID-19

January 11, 2021
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that approximately 1 in 4...

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