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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...
After Strike, German Postal Workers Win Contract
September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
German postal workers on strike in North Rhine-Westphalia.
After a four-week strike, German postal workers have secured a contract.
Workers...
‘I Support Postal Banking!’
September 1, 2015
Activists protest payday lendors in Columbia, MO.
A May 2015 white paper by the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) concludes that the Postal Service can act now to expand and enhance existing financial services, such as money orders,...
A Grand Alliance Goes to Congress
September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
A delegation of representatives from A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service took their concerns about postal issues to Capitol Hill...
Momentum Demands Movement
September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Momentum is defined as “mass in motion,” or “mass multiplied by velocity.”
In the political arena, momentum is critical to getting legislation...
NLRB Strikes Major Blow to USPS-Staples Deal
September 1, 2015
Protestors outside Staples headquarters in
Framingham, MA, on June 4.
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
In a major blow to the Postal Service’s deal with Staples, Region 5 of...