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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...
The Road to a New Contract
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
The road to contract negotiations has been a long one. The APWU began holding internal weekly meetings in August 2014; the current Collective Bargaining...
Mail Delivery Takes a Dramatic Dive
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Across the country, postal customers are complaining that they’re waiting longer for their mail. And while postal management dismisses the complaints as...
Canadian Postal Workers Launch Boycott
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Postal workers in the United States and Canada face many of the same struggles – including the threat of privatization.
Mirroring the Stop Staples...
In Historic Vote, Greece Elects Pro-Worker Party
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Greece made history in January when it elected the pro-worker Syriza Party – the culmination of years of protests against dire economic conditions...
Virginia Clerk is the Talk of His Town
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Tucked away in the western corner of Virginia, just across the Kentucky border, is the sleepy town of Pound.
On a frigid Tuesday morning this past...