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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...

What Is There To Hide?

July 13, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In May 2022, the USPS Atlantic and Southern Area notified the Regional Union Leadership and the Management Associations that Postal Service HQ was...

Moral March Unites Labor & Civil Rights Movements

July 13, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On June 18th, just before the Juneteenth holiday, The Poor People’s Campaign held the “Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral...

Q&A For Clerks on New Collective Bargaining Agreement

July 13, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) 1. Question: Does a Postal Support Employee (PSE) hired in an Administrative Post Office (APO), that allows for the 24-month automatic conversion to...

National Staffing Advocate Training: DC

July 13, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Washington DC: In an effort to continue providing local and state unions with maintenance craft staffing assistance, the APWU once again held formal...

The PSRA and Postal Retirees

July 12, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) This time of the year we recognize the anniversary of Medicare, signed into law in July 1965 and Social Security, created in August 1935. We...

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