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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...
It Pays to Be Union! Retroactive Pay and COLAs in Recent Paychecks
September 16, 2020
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
As this issue goes to press, most APWU members received their retroactive pay in their paychecks dated September 4. This retroactive pay is the...
Management Must Abide by the Collective Bargaining Agreement
September 16, 2020
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
It has been a different summer for all of us. Every member of the APWU has been touched by the COVID-19 pandemic in one way or another. Yet all...
APWU Holds Regional Zoom Meetings
September 16, 2020
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The National American Postal Workers Union greatly appreciates all of your terrific work in these difficult times. From health and safety...
National MVS Assistant Director Javier Piñeres Retires from APWU
September 16, 2020
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Effective August 31, national MVS Assistant Director Javier E. Piñeres retired after nearly two decades as an APWU officer. Javier began his...
100 Year Anniversary of Women's Right to Vote
September 16, 2020
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
“Organize, agitate, educate must be our war cry.” – Susan B. Anthony, women’s rights advocate