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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...

New Maintenance Division Appointments

October 3, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Maintenance Division Director Idowu Balogun Filling Maintenance Vacancies — Part II This is Part II of an article started by our late...

USPS Utilizing Disgraced Former NLRB Commissioner

October 3, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson  The United States Postal Service is utilizing Terence F. Flynn, the disgraced former National Labor...

Resolutions Opposing Privatization of the Postal Service Introduced in Congress

October 2, 2018
On July 16, a leading group of Congressional representatives took action to help combat a proposal to privatize the Postal Service by introducing House Resolution 993. The privatization proposal, put forward by the White House’s Office of...

The National Convention Sets the Path for Current and Future APWU Struggles

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  Twenty-one hundred APWU members departed from the union’s 24th Biennial National Convention in August uplifted, united and ready to continue ...

Stand Up for Safe Jobs

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman  “It is the responsibility of management to provide safe working conditions in all present and...

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