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News Article | March 16, 2023
Know Your Rights At Work!
One of the basic rights you have in the Postal Service is the right to meet with a steward if your contractual rights have been violated. You have the right to representation by a steward in any meeting that could lead to discipline, and the right to meet with a steward to file a grievance.
News Article | March 16, 2023
My Consumer Driven Option
On behalf of the entire APWU Health Plan, I would like to welcome all of our new members and their families. The Health Plan team looks forward to serving you for many years to come. The APWU Health Plan offers two rich and comprehensive plans: the High Option and the Consumer Driven Option. This Op...
News Article | March 16, 2023
Together, We Can Overcome Any Obstacle
As a new officer writing my first article, I would like to start by saying that I am honored and humbled to have been elected as Southern Regional Coordinator of our great union. I cannot express enough my gratitude for the trust and confidence you have placed in me. I assure you that I will do my u...
News Article | March 16, 2023
Training, Regional Assistants and COVID Leave
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), which protected federal workers who contracted COVID-19 (COVID), expired on Jan. 27, 2023. We are providing the following information to members on the new procedures for COVID-related workers’ compensation (OWCP) claims through the Federal Employees’ Com...
News Article | March 16, 2023
What’s the 411 on Capitol Hill?
With the 118th Congress underway, there is already much talk throughout the country on the debt ceiling, a legislative limit on the amount of debt that can be incurred by the United States Treasury Department. The Treasury Department has already undertaken extraordinary measures to keep the governme...
News Article | March 16, 2023
Women’s Rights Are Under Attack
Today, in the USA, women’s rights are under attack. Women are being told what they can and can’t do with their bodies. Although one might not personally believe in abortion, it’s not up to anyone, especially a man, to tell a woman what’s religiously right and wrong. It’s up to the woman to make that...
News Article | March 15, 2023
Meeting Annual Report Deadlines
To ensure local and state union officials meet Department of Labor (DOL) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax deadlines, the Secretary-Treasurer’s department provides training on how to complete and electronically file the required Labor-Management (LM) report and provides the information and IRS...
News Article | March 15, 2023
Tax Season is Upon Us. But Who Pays Taxes? And How Are They Spent?
Working people, including postal workers, routinely pay taxes. We don’t have massive write-offs, offshore tax havens, untaxed stock incomes, tax avoidance trust funds, or high-priced lawyers. But the billionaire U.S. oligarchs and corporate America do – all used to evade paying their fair share of t...
News Article | March 15, 2023
Who is Keeping Track of Bullying, Sexual Harassment, and Hostile Work Environments?
The USPS has never put forth its best effort to protect postal workers from hostile work environments. Employees often experience management failures to resolve cases. They watch management harassers move from one postal facility to another and these cases are often closed as inconclusive. Now an Of...
News Article | January 23, 2023
Questions and Answers: In-Service Examinations, Register & Eligibility Ratings
On Jan. 18, 2023, the parties signed off on national Questions & Answers on the In-Service Examinations, Register and Eligibility Ratings MOU. As a reminder, on an annual basis during the month of March, all career employees have the opportunity to request to be tested for Maintenance Craft eligibil...
News Article | January 17, 2023
A Year In Review: A Look Back at 2022 and Looking Forward to 2023
Happy New Year, union family! As the 118th Congress begins, Legislative & Political Director Beard takes a moment to reflect on some notable legislative accomplishments of the APWU in the last Congress.
News Article | January 17, 2023
Bulk Mail Tech and Mailer Requirement Clerk MOU & Higher-Level National Dispute
On Nov. 4, 2022, the parties agreed to extend the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Re: Bulk Mail Tech (BMT) and Mailing Requirements Clerk (MRC) Position Qualification. APWU has also filed a national dispute making the assertion that all MRCs should have been paid at the level-8 rate of pay since...
News Article | January 17, 2023
Burnout: Signs, Symptoms, and Prevention
The last few years dealing with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many people to become overwhelmed and experience burnout. However, many either don’t recognize its symptoms or even know what it is. Burnout is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolong...
News Article | January 17, 2023
Monsters Do Exist…
This new year we re-focus on the harassment and bullying by postal monsters. It takes a postal village to take them on. Every part of our union must pursue these beasts!
News Article | January 17, 2023
New Year, New Officers, Same Commitment!
I am humbled and honored to have been elected Support Services Division Director. My name is Arrion Brown, and I was the Support Services craft director for the Nation’s Capital Southern Maryland Area Local. I will be serving our division along with our newly elected Support Services National Busine...