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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...
Door-to-Door Success in Canada
May 1, 2016
Canadian postal workers and allies protest
cuts in door-to-door mail delivery service.
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Communities across Canada are facing cutbacks in mail service,...
Supreme Court Shake Up
May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
The changing composition of the U.S. Supreme Court will have a broad impact on postal workers and the labor movement as a whole.
Postal Banking: The Antidote to Abusive Lending
May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
One of the big topics in this year’s presidential election is the influence of Wall Street on our economy – from too much power in the hands of the big...
Contract Arbitration Gets Underway
May 1, 2016
Mark Barrett, Heather Stewart and Georgena Walker.
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Interest arbitration hearings for our new contract got underway in February and continued in March...
A Criminal Gets Off Easy
May 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
You may have heard recently of the conviction of a criminal named Don Blankenship. He was sentenced to one year in prison.
I am one who believes our...