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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...

Local Union Elections

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell  It starts with the process for nominations. One of the ways to alleviate and hopefully prevent complaints,...

I Have a Dream, You Have a Dream, and Dr. King Had a Dream

October 2, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Vice President Debby Szeredy  My dream would be to help make APWU truly a movement of members fighting to save the USPS from privatization....

The Five Ds

October 1, 2018
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By President Mark Dimondstein  I was honored to have led the just concluded APWU’s 24th Biennial National Convention – the grand union meeting...

APWU Reaches Agreement on an Updated RI-399 Process

September 27, 2018
After decades of jurisdictional disputes, the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) reached agreement with the National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) and the Postal Service on an updated RI-399 procedure for jurisdictional work assignments to...

APWU and Postal Management Agree to Extend Negotiations Deadline until October 20, 2018

September 21, 2018
APWU President Mark Dimondstein has announced that the union and the Postal Service have agreed to extend negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement for 30 days. Our current union contract between the American Postal Workers Union and...

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