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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...

Florida Postal Workers Protest Staffing Shortages

March 2, 2018
On Monday, Feb. 19, members of the Florida Keys Area Local held an informational picket in front of the main post office in Key West, shining a light on the severe slashes to staffing and service that are causing mail delays and hazardous working...

Bill Lucy Presented with Alston/Jones International Civil and Human Rights Award

March 1, 2018
(L-R) International Civil Rights Center and Museum founders Melvin “Skip” Alston and Earl F. Jones, Secretary-Treasurer Powell, Honoree William ‘Bill’ Lucy, and President Mark Dimondstein  presenting the Alston/Jones International Civil and Human...

USPS Rated Top Government Agency Once Again by Gallup Poll

March 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  Americans like their public Postal Service – and results from a country-wide poll prove it. In fact, the Postal Service is even more popular now than...

APWU is The Nation’s ‘Most Valuable Union’

March 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  The American Postal Workers Union was named 2017’s “Most Valuable Union” by the publication The Nation, as part of its annual Progressive Honor Roll...

Support Your AFL-CIO Central Labor Councils and AFL-CIO State Federations

March 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)   By Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell  Central Labor Councils (CLCs) and State Federations play an intricate and necessary part in the labor movement’s...

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