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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...
Mail Processing Equipment Arbitration
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The Maintenance National Officers arbitrated a section of Electronic Work Hours Estimated Program (eWHEP) on May 18-19, before a newly selected...
Postal Workers Weathered the Storm
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The past 15 months has been challenging and stressful for postal workers. The COVID-19 pandemic spared no one, touching almost everyone in some way,...
Investing in Retail and the Customer Experience – Clerks Care
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
In an effort to offer more postal products and services and increase revenue, the Clerk Division has held several meetings with the Postal Service...
APWU Retirees Still Fighting for Justice
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Eliminate the WEP and GPO
This year, as we have done in the past, retirees recognize the anniversary of Social Security, created in August 1935, and...
Cause of Asthma
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
No one really knows what causes asthma. What we do know is that asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. When airways come into...