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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...

Dealing with Difficult People

January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  As postal employees, we are required to interact with co-workers, customers, supervisors and managers. We sometimes feel overwhelmed. To avoid...

Blue Water, Public Law 116-23 in Effect

January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  The Blue Water Navy (BWN) Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019, signed into law on June 25, 2019 went into effect on Jan. 1, 2020. The law presumes...

Is There a Union Meeting — Who cares?

January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  Far too many local unions are not able to secure a quorum in order to carry out the functions of their membership meetings and fully represent...

APWU Members Instrumental in Achieving Legislative Milestone

January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  With the achievement of more than two thirds support for the USPS Fairness Act in the House (301 cosponsors to date), H.R. 2382 has been placed...

Labor News

January 23, 2020
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  Amalgamated Transit Union Strikes Lead to Victory Against Privatization On Oct. 24, over 120 members of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local...

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