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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...

Union Urges Locals to File OSHA Complaints On Dangerous Instructions for Electrical Work

February 1, 2010
The APWU is urging local unions to file complaints with OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, following the publication by the Postal Service of instructions regarding electrical work – instructions the union believes violate OSHA...

USPS Trims List to 162

January 29, 2010
The USPS announced Jan. 29 that the list of stations and branches being considered for closure has been reduced to 162, six less than the last update on Dec. 15. The Postal Service cautioned again that the list does not represent a final decision on...

Springfield Area Local Reaches MTESC Agreement

January 29, 2010
After seven months of negotiations, the Springfield (MA) Area Local reached a tentative agreement with Alan Ritchey, Inc. on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement that will cover all 90 members employed at the Mail Transport Equipment Service Center...

Union Plus, APWU Scholarship Application Deadlines Near

January 25, 2010
Union members with children who will be graduating from high school this year are reminded that the application deadline for Union Plus scholarships is Saturday, Jan. 30

USPS Can’t Rationalize ‘Network Rationalization’

January 19, 2010
Echoing APWU criticisms, a recent audit by the USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concluded that after more than five years of initiatives aimed at streamlining the mail-processing network, the Postal Service has failed to establish criteria...

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