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News Article | September 10, 2025

Settlement Reached in Individual Retirement Counseling Dispute [pdf]

On September 21, 2009, the APWU and the Postal Service reached a pre-arbitration settlement over a dispute concerning management’s responsibility to provide individual retirement counseling for employees.

News Article | September 10, 2025

e-Team Report, Dec. 2, 2011

APWU Backed Workers Compensation Bill Passes U.S. House of Representatives Voter ID Laws Attack Voters' Rights NLRB Rule Changes

News Article | September 10, 2025

Dispute Over Unilateral Elimination of Local Individual Retirement Counseling

This dispute concerns revisions to Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM) Sections 569.1 and 589.1, Retirement Counseling. 

News Article | September 10, 2025

When OWCP Denies Compensation Based On a Previous Lost Wage Earning Capacity (LWEC) Determination

Some employees who have had their medically suitable job withdrawn by the Postal Service as a result of the National Reassessment Process (NRP) are being denied wage loss compensation by OWCP because of a previous LWEC decision. How does this happen?

News Article | September 10, 2025

Faster Decisions for Veterans

The Fully Developed Claims (FDC) program is an optional new initiative being offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide faster, more accurate decisions to veterans, U.S. service members and survivors who are applying for disability compensation, pension or survivor benefits. Appli...

News Article | September 10, 2025

OIG ‘Fraud’ Campaign

Who’s scamming who? The USPS Office of Inspector General recently launched a “Workers’ Compensation Fraud Campaign.” In typical OIG fashion, one of its strategies involves demonizing injured workers by having an actor posing as a postal employee cheerfully brag about cheating the Workers’ Comp progr...

News Article | September 10, 2025

Long-Term Care Insurance Update

The Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP) was created by the Long Term Care Security Act, which was signed into law by President Clinton on Sept. 19, 2000. Fifteen months later, the Office of Personnel Management selected John Hancock Life Insurance Company and Metropolitan Life Insuranc...

News Article | September 10, 2025

e-Team Report, Aug. 5, 2011

74,000 FAA Workers Idled  Due to One Anti-Labor Congressman Senate Democrats Request Justice Department Review of New Voter ID Laws Professor's Blog Fights USPS Closings

News Article | September 10, 2025

Dispute Over Individual Retirement Counseling Appealed to Arbitration

The APWU has appealed to national-level arbitration a dispute over the Postal Service's unilateral decision that resulted in the discontinuation of established local methods of providing individual retirement counseling to bargaining unit employees.

News Article | September 10, 2025

Who Do You Believe?

There is an expression, “Who do you believe – your lying eyes or me?” Well, APWU union representatives are accustomed to managers being less than honest about their actions during Labor-Management meetings and at various steps of the grievance procedure. But the recent roll-out of the Postmaster Gen...

News Article | September 10, 2025

Leave Accrual

Employees earn sick and annual leave in accordance with postal regulations found in Subchapter 510 of the Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM). Article 10, Section 2, of the National Agreement provides that "The leave regulations in Subchapter 510 of the [ELM], insofar as such regulations estab...

News Article | September 10, 2025

For Many Locals, It’s LM Reporting Time

All APWU locals and retiree chapters that receive dues rebates from the national union must file an annual financial report with the Department of Labor. The reports are required by the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) and must be filed within 90 days of the end of the local’s f...

News Article | September 10, 2025

MVS Settles Dispute Over Postal Operations Manual

In December 2012 the APWU resolved a long-simmering dispute with the Postal Service, involving who can drive postal vehicles, as well as other matters that affect the union’s ability to protect Motor Vehicle Craft jobs. At issue was language that appeared in the Postal Operations Manual (POM) until...

News Article | September 10, 2025

Post-Convention Workshops

The Research & Education Department is proud to announce that the APWU will sponsor its 10th Educational Conference, a National Convention event that provides union members with a wealth of information to take home to their locals and state organizations.