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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...
Carwasheros Win Contract
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Following a four month strike, the “carwasheros” of Brooklyn, NY, have secured a contract.
Workers at 10 car wash companies have voted to join the...
Young Workers Summit Makes a Splash in Chicago
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
More than a thousand young unionists, activists and organizers convened in Chicago from March 19-22 for the Next Up: Young Workers Summit, sponsored by...
USW Strikers Get a Contract
May 1, 2015
Stop Staples supporters join the USW
on the picket line.
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
After a six-week strike, the United Steel Workers Union and Shell Oil agreed on a new national...
NYC Zara Workers Get a Raise
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
After months of protest and pressure from a workers campaign, Zara clothing retail workers in New York City received a raise.
In a letter to employees,...
Postal Clerk Remembers Bloody Sunday
May 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Distribution Clerk George James was just 15 when he tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965.
He says he had no idea history would be...