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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...

Interest Arbitration Update: Management Believes Clerks Too Well Paid

October 21, 2019
In today’s Interest Arbitration session, USPS Management presented evidence on wages and benefits. In the morning session, their main witness characterized USPS postal clerks as under-skilled and over-paid as they sought to justify their demands to...

Message from the President - Latest Interest Arbitration Update

October 18, 2019
President Dimondstein's interest arbitration update on the Postal Service's witness hearings.

APWU National Officer Election Results Certified

October 17, 2019
The official results of the APWU Election of National Officers have been tabulated and were certified by the American Arbitration Association on Oct. 12. A summary will be published in the November-December issue of The American Postal Worker. The...

House Representative Elijah Cummings, Champion for Postal Workers, Dies at 68

October 17, 2019
The American Postal Workers Union joins the country in mourning the death of Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD-7), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The Oversight and Government Reform Committee is the main...

Statement by APWU President Mark Dimondstein on Retirement of Postmaster General Megan Brennan

October 16, 2019
[Washington, DC] American Postal Workers union (APWU) National President Mark Dimondstein issued the following statement today: “Postmaster General Megan Brennan has announced her retirement effective January 31, 2020.

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