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How to Navigate to VER Plans, Optional Retirement Pages through USPS’s LiteBlue
February 3, 2025
Working in conjunction with Retirees Director Nancy Olumekor, the Industrial Relations Department has produced a presentation which provides step-by-step instructions on how active postal service employees with access to LiteBlue can navigate to the...
APWU Releases Q&As about 2025 Voluntary Early Retirement
February 1, 2025
The Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) recently announced for eligible postal workers by the Postal Service has generated many questions from the members of the APWU. The Postal Service published a list of questions and answers for our members.
Retiree COLAs Set at 1.5%
November 1, 2013
The Social Security Administration has announced a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of 1.5 percent for federal and postal retirees. The increase will be reflected in the January 2014 annuity and will apply to retirees covered by both the Civil...
Union Wins Call Center Case
November 1, 2013
In a decision issued Oct. 28, Arbitrator Stephen B. Goldberg ruled that the USPS must upgrade all Customer Care Agents two levels and must make them whole for all pay and benefits they lost as a result of the improper ranking of their positions.
Pay Raise Set for Nov. 16
November 1, 2013
APWU-represented postal employees will receive an increase in their annual salaries effective Nov. 16, which will be reflected in paychecks dated Dec. 6. The increase will apply to employees covered by the APWU-USPS 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining...
Together. Better Health.
November 1, 2013
This Open Season select your union’s Health Plan. The APWU Health Plan is committed to low-cost, robust benefits and personalized service.
Photographer Honored Workers, Helped End Child Labor
October 31, 2013
In August, the Postal Service released a series of stamps honoring American workers. Many of the stamps’ images were captured in the 1930s by photographer Lewis Hine, whose pictures celebrate the skills, daring and dignity of the industrial workers...