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News Article | August 9, 2025
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Down Despite the Extreme Cold
Huffington Post reports that sequestration's budget cuts last year have left thousands of families in the cold this winter. Congress cut funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program by about $155 million, and total funding has decreased from $5.1 billion to $3.32 billion since 2010 (htt...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Union Appeals to Arbitration USPS Decision to Subcontract FSM 1000 Modifications
On Nov. 17, 2009, the APWU appealed to arbitration a national-level dispute protesting the Postal Service’s decision to subcontract the retrofitting of FSM 1000 machines, and challenging management’s failure to notify the union of the decision. The grievance alleges that management violated Article...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Dispute Filed Over Failure to Implement the MOU re: Electronic Access
The APWU has initiated a national dispute over whether the Postal Service's failure to reach agreement on the means to provide access to APWU representatives for electronic inspection and review of documents, files and other records necessary for processing of grievances and/or determining whether a...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Leaders in Washington Pushing to Strengthen and Expand Social Security
In a sign that the push to expand Social Security is continuing to build support, on Wednesday Senators Mark Begich (D-AK) and Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced the Retirement and Income Security Enhancements (RAISE) Act. The RAISE Act would enhance Social Security benefits for widows, widowers, and di...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Union Appeals APPS Installation Subcontracting to Arbitration
On Nov. 3, 2009, the APWU appealed to arbitration a national-level interpretive dispute protesting management’s decision to subcontract the installation of APPS (Automated Package Processing System) machines. The union asserts that the Postal Service failed to provide notice of the decision to the A...
News Article | August 9, 2025
APWU Presses Fight to Keep Retail Units Open
With the number of USPS stations and branches under consideration for closure still in flux, the APWU continues to lead community-based drives to keep retail units open. The Postal Service first announced in May that more than 3,200 stations and branches in Level 24-and-above post offices were being...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Penalty Overtime Exception
News Article | August 9, 2025
Say ‘No’ to Social Security Cuts
As the fight to stop post office closures and protect jobs remain our top priority, the fight to protect Social Security continues. Three of the 12 members of the congressional “Super Committee” that has been assigned the task of reducing the federal deficit previously voted for a bill that would cu...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Meet Our New Favorite Ball Team Breakfast for Champions
APWU locals all over the country are seizing the opportunity to support the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team. The Human Relations Department asked locals and state organizations to host a breakfast and organize our members to cheer for this remarkable team when they visit various cities to play...
News Article | August 9, 2025
‘Sister Study’ Update
The nation’s largest ongoing research project on the causes of breast cancer is still searching for sisters.
News Article | August 9, 2025
e-Team Report, April 12, 2013
President Guffey Calls on USPS to Halt Consolidations Until Congress Acts Postal Service Protection Act Gains Co-Sponsors in the House and Senate Congressional Leaders Begin Work on Postal Reform House Committee to Hold Postal Hearing Next Week Show Support for Retired Public Employees & Call for a...
News Article | August 9, 2025
NRLCA Award on Review and Concurrence
A National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA) award in which the arbitrator found that Article 16.6 of the USPS-NRLCA National Agreement, which is not materially different from Article 16.8 of the USPS-APWU National Agreement, is violated “if there is a ‘command decision’ from higher authorit...
News Article | August 9, 2025
350 Retirees Attend St. Louis Older Americans Month Luncheon
More than 350 people attended the St. Louis Retiree Chapter's annual Older Americans Month Luncheon on May 9. Thanks to the work of Local President Frederick Wolfmeyer and retiree officers Shirley and Melvin Sanders, the event grows each year. St. Louis retirees serve as community and union orga...
News Article | August 9, 2025
As a Vet Returning From Vietnam …
If you elected to serve your country during the Vietnam Era or were drafted in the 1960s or early 1970s, you should read the following letter that I recently wrote to John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona. You may fall into the same category that I describe below. If you do, please let me kno...
News Article | August 9, 2025
Mental Health Screening
The USPS offers free, anonymous mental health screening to all employees and their families. Screening for depression and alcoholism are done via telephone or the internet. People who use these services will be offered brief questionnaires that provide information on the afflictions and encourage ca...