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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...

The Real "Norma Rae" Still Lives!

November 19, 2019
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) 

People Power in 2020

November 19, 2019
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  There is another very important election ahead: the 2020 Federal Election. We need to be ready to not only vote for candidates who support...

Postmaster General to Retire, Postal Board of Governors to Appoint Successor

November 19, 2019
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) 

Arbitration Hearings and Testimony Conclude

November 18, 2019
The American Postal Workers Union and United States Postal Service management conducted a final three-day session of interest arbitration Nov. 13-15. The week’s proceedings saw the conclusion of evidence submission and witness testimony in the...

Message from the President: Final Arbitration Hearings

November 15, 2019
President Dimondstein's fifth update on the interest arbitration hearings for our new union contract. We just completed three more days of hearings which ended November 15th. The hearings are now completed and the panel will begin their...

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