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News Article | September 7, 2025
Local Efforts Amplify the Fight
News Article | September 7, 2025
Facts of Life Insurance
The basic Federal Employee Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) that you had as a working postal employee did not automatically continue into your retirement.
News Article | September 7, 2025
Dispute Over Information Security Handbook
The APWU initiated a national dispute over the Postal Service's announcement of revisions to the AS-805 handbook governing Information Security.
News Article | September 7, 2025
e-Team Report, May 10, 2013
The Postal Service Protection Act Gains Bipartisan Support Postal Losses in Second Quarter Primarily Due to Prefund Mandate Compensatory Time Bill Passes House, Draws Criticism from Obama Administration and Worker Advocates House Bill Takes Aim at FEHBP Republicans Delay Obama Nominee for Secretary...
News Article | September 7, 2025
Enforcing the Collective Bargaining Agreement in Small Offices
The USPS has begun implementing several policies in small post offices that we believe violate the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). Although many of the disputes may eventually be decided at the national level, it is important that we challenge violations properly at the local level...
News Article | September 7, 2025
Managing Stress
We all face challenges and obstacles, and sometimes the pressure can be hard to handle.
News Article | September 7, 2025
Disputes Over Contract Postal Units Filed, Appealed to Arbitration
The APWU has initiated one dispute, and appealed another to national arbitration, over whether a contract postal unit (CPU) may exist in a facility when the Postal Service has use of the property by consignment or other special agreement, for example, on military bases, in national parks and in gove...
News Article | September 7, 2025
e-Team Report, Aug. 30, 2013
One Week Left to Meet With Lawmakers Before Summer Recess Ends Tell Congress: NO to Legislation that Enable Cuts to Service! Spreading our Message Far and Wide Labor Day…A Time to Pay Tribute, A Day of Opportunity 50th Years Later, March on Washington Commemorated in Nation’s Capital
News Article | September 7, 2025
Seniors Show Support for APWU
Seniors showed support for the APWU’s critical issues by signing Stop Staples postcards addressed to the company’s CEO, Ron Sargent, at the convention of the 4.2 million-member Alliance for Retired Americans April 28-May 1. The delegates understood what action the USPS should take to better serve th...
News Article | September 7, 2025
Families Too
During our visits to medical facilities we have met many family members — mostly young wives, but also husbands, moms, dads, brothers, sisters, and children who are there to stand vigil and to provide support while their loved one endures his or her struggles.
News Article | September 7, 2025
As Deadline Nears, APWU Keeps Up the Fight
Time is running out. We are quickly approaching the May 15 expiration of the moratorium on the closure and consolidation of mail processing plants and post offices. The moratorium is intended to give Congress the opportunity to pass a bill to address the Postal Service’s financial crisis — without d...
News Article | September 7, 2025
Award on Obligation to Notify APWU of Withdrawal of CFR Revision
Arbitrator Linda Byars sustained the union's position that in order to make moot the union's appeal to arbitration of a proposed revision to a regulation which the Postal Service does not intend to implement, the Service is required to notify the APWU that it is withdrawing the proposed revision.
News Article | September 7, 2025
Understanding Autism
Autism is a developmental disorder that severely impairs a person's ability to communicate and socially interact with others. It affects 500,000 Americans, occurring four times more often among boys than among girls. The cause is unknown.
News Article | September 7, 2025
U.S. House Approves Ryan Budget that Slashes Medicare
In a nearly party-line vote, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted 219-205 on Thursday to approve a 2015 budget plan unveiled last week by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chairman of the House Budget Committee. Ryan’s plan would make sharp cuts to Medicare, as well as other domestic programs such...
News Article | September 7, 2025
Preference-Eligible Employees Should Look to the CBA
Federal law grants preference-eligible employees specific protection from Reductions in Force (RIFs), and gives them the right to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) if they believe their rights under Chapter 35 of Title 5 have been violated. Those rights do not prohibit preference-e...