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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...
Houston PSEs Step Up to Union Activism
July 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine)
Heather Lewis, a Postal Support Employee in Houston, loves her job. “PSEs work really hard. We work long hours, but I actually enjoy it. It’s very...
Summary and Highlights from Interest Arbitration Award
July 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine)
With the decision of the interest arbitration panel of July 8, 2016, we have a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between the American Postal Workers...
Fed Up with Understaffing, Saint Louis Local Pickets Post Office
July 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine)
Fed up with chronic understaffing of mail sorting machines, nearly 100 members of the Saint Louis Gateway Area Local and their allies formed an...
Thousands Protest Secret Trade Deals
July 8, 2016
Thousands protest secret trade deals in Hannover, Germany.
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine)
Approximately 30,000 protestors took to the streets of Hannover, Germany, in late April to...
Rewriting the Rules of the Rigged Economy
July 8, 2016
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine)
The average U.S. family paid $2,050 to bail out Wall Street after the economy crashed in 2008 and lost nearly $5,800 in income due to reduced economic...