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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 Rejects USPS Call For Five-Day Delivery, New Business Model
March 3, 2010
APWU President William Burrus condemned USPS proposals to reduce mail delivery to five days per week, saying, “It would be the beginning of the demise of the Postal Service.” The USPS outlined the five-day delivery plan and other proposals at a...
RSVP for the Postal Strike 40th Anniversary Event!
March 3, 2010
Due to space concerns, reservations are now requested from union members who plan to attend a Smithsonian National Postal Museum program on March 20 marking the anniversary of the Great Postal Strike of 1970. APWU President William Burrus will be...
APWU Wins Important Maintenance Subcontracting Grievance
February 26, 2010
The union won a major victory against subcontracting Feb. 10, when Arbitrator Shyam Das directed the USPS to assign Maintenance Craft employees to maintain computers at approximately 8,000 of the nation’s largest associate offices. The arbitrator...
APWU Rallies in Support of TSO Rights
February 24, 2010
APWU officers and staff joined hundreds of other union members and labor activists at a rally Feb. 23 in support of collective bargaining rights for the 40,000 Transportation Security Officers who work in the nation’s airports.
USPS Refuses to Sever Ties with Subcontractor that Defrauds Drivers of Wages, Benefits
February 22, 2010
Last month, newspapers reported a settlement between the Department of Labor and a USPS subcontractor that exemplifies the problem with postal subcontracting: After three years of defrauding its workers of pay and benefits, the contractor, MT...