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Your Work During the Election Matters: A Message to Every Postal Worker
November 4, 2024
I want to acknowledge the incredible dedication and effort each of you has put into ensuring every mail-in ballot is delivered on time. The hard work of postal workers helps ensure every voice is heard and every vote is counted. Once again, we’ve...
Upcoming Proposed Flexible Spending Account Changes
October 30, 2024
The APWU was recently notified of the proposed change to the FSA (Flexible Spending Account) administrator. FSA is an important negotiated benefit as it allows employees to put aside “pre-tax” dollars for certain medical and dependent care expenses.
USPS Seeks to Derail Efforts to Restore Service Standards
June 23, 2015
The Postal Service has signaled it will try to derail a measure approved by the House Appropriations Committee on June 17 to restore postal service standards to the levels that were in place on July 1, 2012. The committee’s vote would rescind the...
OPM Announces Second Major Security Breach
June 22, 2015
The recent announcement by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) of a second major breach of data on “current and former employees of the federal government whose records OPM manages” could affect many APWU members, said Retirees Department...
e-Team Report, June 21, 2015
June 21, 2015
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Tell Your Senators to Stop ‘Fast Tracking’ a Bad Trade Deal
Like the Zombie apocalypse, legislation that would “fast track” a bad trade deal has risen from the dead.
Workers, environmentalists and other progressives thwarted...
Tell Your Senators to Stop ‘Fast Tracking’ a Bad Trade Deal
June 19, 2015
Like the Zombie apocalypse, legislation that would “fast track” a bad trade deal has risen from the dead. Workers, environmentalists and other progressives thwarted passage of the package on June 12, when the House voted against a companion bill...
In a Setback for America's Retirees, Fast Track Passes U.S. House
June 19, 2015
More than 70 delegates from more than 20 affiliated organizations attended the Biennial NCARA Convention on Tuesday in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Fiesta, state Attorney General Roy B. Cooper and North Carolina AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer MaryBe...