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News Article | May 3, 2026
Appeals Pending in Important Cases Affecting Preference-Eligible Veterans
Any veterans' preference-eligible employee who gets a notice that his or her duty assignment has been abolished and that he or she will become unassigned, should immediately ask a manager whether there are duty assignments available in the same level.
News Article | May 3, 2026
Vietnam Vets and Agent Orange
Vietnam Veterans are now at an age where many have or will develop "adult-onset" or Type II diabetes.
News Article | May 3, 2026
Winterhaven Stand Down
Each year more than 1 million of our nation’s veterans are homeless. This is hardly the thank-you they deserve and hardly the thank-you they have earned. So, this January, the APWU plans to give a hand up to homeless and under served veterans during the Veterans’ Administration’s Winterhaven Stand D...
News Article | May 3, 2026
Fast Food Favorites
$10 gift cards to McDonald’s, Burger King, Church’s Chicken, Cinnabon, Nathan’s Famous, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Subway and Taco Bell are an affordable way to say thank you to our hospitalized troops, as well as those returning from deployment to Afghanistan or other support theaters abroad, where it’s...
News Article | May 3, 2026
Questions About Veterans Preference
The following are APWU responses to frequently asked questions about Veterans' Preference:
News Article | January 21, 2025
This is a ‘Code Red Alert’ to APWU Veterans
In the last Home Front article, we warned veterans about “Project 2025” and how a second Trump term would destroy the VA, and VA healthcare benefits. Unfortunately for our APWU veteran family, his Project 2025 plan to destroy VA healthcare could begin the minute he enters the White House.
Postal Wire | June 4, 2024
News Article | March 22, 2024
What’s Really Happening to Veterans VA Healthcare?
In this edition of Home Front, we will highlight a few of the numerous negative healthcare laws of the Trump-era VA Mission Act, that was passed by Congress, and signed into law on June 6, 2018, by former President Donald Trump.
News Article | January 8, 2024
Hands Off Our Veterans’ Healthcare and Disability Benefits
The Veterans’ Benefits Handbook is an extremely important resource that protects veterans from being scammed by erroneous contractors looking to take advantage of veteran benefits. We encourage our veterans to get involved and stay informed of their rights.
News Article | August 2, 2023
Veterans’ Deadline for Backdated PACT Act Toxic Exposure Claims is Aug. 9, 2023
In August 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the bipartisan Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act. The Act expanded VA health care and benefits coverage to the many veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits and other hazardous substances, such as Agent Orange.
News Article | November 12, 2021
Afghanistan Veteran Resources
(This article first appeared in the November/December issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Vantage Point, an official website of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, has released a fourpart series focusing on Afghanistan Veterans and how they can get help through VA. When the announceme...
News Article | August 27, 2021
VA Issues New Rules Regarding Mandatory Vaccination
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On July 26, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) became the first Federal Agency to require the COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment. VA Secretary Denis McDonough announced that t...
News Article | November 19, 2019
Maintenance Craft Arbitration Testimony
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The following is a shortened version of the introductory testimony given by Maintenance Craft Director Balogun, before the Maintenance Craft witness panels, during the arbitration hearings on S...
News Article | September 12, 2019
Spouses Serving in the Shadows
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) U.S. servicemembers who experience traumatic events during military service are commonly diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or complex PTSD. The conditions can be debilitating...
News Article | July 25, 2019
Blue Water
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In June, the Blue Water Veterans Act unanimously passed in the Senate. If signed by President Trump, the law will take effect at the start of 2020. The measure affects about 90,000 veterans who served...