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News Article | April 9, 2026
Telemarketing Scam Protection
Consumers lose billions of dollars a year to telemarketing fraud. That’s why the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) encourages you to be skeptical about phone solicitations, and to be aware of a law that helps protect against deceptive and abusive telemarketing practices.
News Article | April 9, 2026
PSE Pay, Sunday Premium
For many years part-time flexibles ( PTFS ) have questioned why their overtime rates of pay were calculated differently than full-time employees. Now we have Postal Support Employees (PSEs), and their overtime rates are calculated differently as well. I have received many questions from the field on...
News Article | April 9, 2026
e-Team Report, March 2, 2012
Cutbacks at the U.S. Postal Service Kicking the Transportation Bill Down the Road If Postal Service Ax Delivery Standards, Will Elections Suffer?
News Article | April 9, 2026
Dispute Initiated Over New Electronic Form For Reporting Accidents
The Postal Service's improper creation, handling and utilization of a new electronic PS Form 1769 for reporting accidents is the subject of a recently initiated national dispute.
News Article | April 9, 2026
Sunday Premium Settlement
A pre-arbitration settlement (USPS #Q98C-4Q-C 00165413 and Q98C-4Q-C 00152463) reversing changes to the Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM) that eliminated the payment of Sunday premium for hours not actually worked, including payment of Sunday premium to employees in a continuation of pay (CO...
News Article | April 9, 2026
‘Stop Staples’ Campaign Gets Off to a Strong Start
A trial program that put postal counters in 82 Staples stores — staffed with low-paid, non-union Staples employees — is a ‘direct assault on postal jobs and public postal services,’ the union has declared. The ‘Stop Staples’ campaign got off to a strong start in January and February, and preparation...
News Article | April 9, 2026
e-Team Report, Oct. 11, 2013
John Marcotte Elected Legislative & Political Director Representatives Co-Sponsor Resolution Supporting Federal Workers What do the Government Shutdown and Privatizing the Postal Service Have in Common? Minnesotans Experience Mail Delays
News Article | April 9, 2026
Premium Conversion Legislation for Retirees
On July 16 - more than three years after the legislation was first introduced - the House Civil Service and Agency Reorganization Subcommittee approved Rep. Tom Davis' (R-VA) bill to allow federal and military retirees to pay health care premiums with pre-tax dollars. The full House Government Refor...
News Article | April 9, 2026
DOT Tractor-Trailer Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy
USPS employees who operate tractor-trailers and 7-ton and 9-ton trucks, as well as mechanics who repair them, fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation(DOT) regarding drug and alcohol testing, in accordance with regulations enacted in 1995. Management Instruction, PO-720-2 [PDF...
News Article | April 9, 2026
A Formula for Success
Effective Chapters + More Members = Strength in Numbers to Protect Benefits.
News Article | April 9, 2026
Building a Better Department
Retirees are an invaluable asset to the American Postal Workers Union.
News Article | April 9, 2026
Be Informed About Medicare
issues/joinstay-involvedMedicare Open Season is Jan. 1 through March 31 for those who have missed their regular enrollment period. Eligible postal employees and retirees are encouraged to look into the benefits of enrolling in this federal health insurance program.
News Article | April 9, 2026
The ‘3-Day Waiting Period’
Despite a long and hard-fought battle by the APWU, on Dec. 20, 2006, President Bush signed into law the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which included provisions that we vehemently opposed.
News Article | April 9, 2026
Dispute Filed Over USPS Failure to Create Bargaining Unit Jobs at Greensboro HRSSC
The APWU has filed a national-level dispute over the Postal Service's failure to create bargaining unit positions at the Human Resources Shared Services Center (HRSSC) in Greensboro, NC. The union contends, among other things, that this is work that was performed by APWU bargaining unit personnel in...
News Article | April 9, 2026
Save Social Security
The current debate over the nation’s deficit is being used as an excuse to advocate privatization of Social Security and Medicare, yet nearly 70 percent of Democrats and Republicans oppose cutting these vital programs, according to a poll conducted in February for The Hill newspaper.