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News Article | August 2, 2025

New Diseases Associated With Agent Orange

Those of you who served in Vietnam should know that the list of illnesses that the Veterans Administration is accepting as possibly being related to exposure to Agent Orange is growing.

News Article | August 2, 2025

Veterans’ Assistance And Resource Committee

To provide additional assistance and to keep our members informed about issues that affect them, the Human Relations Department has created a Veterans' Assistance and Resource Committee. The committee has been tasked to provide updates, training resources, information, understanding and guidance.  

News Article | August 2, 2025

Stewards’ Status in MSPB Appeals

Recently, the union has received inquiries about the right of stewards to prepare appeals to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) while “on the clock.” After a review with APWU’s general counsel, the following represents the APWU’s position on this subject matter:  

News Article | August 2, 2025

MSPB Rules in Favor Of APWU War Hero, USPS Appeals

One of the highest-ranking National Guard noncommissioned officers in the Army’s Special Forces won a hard-fought battle to regain his job in December — 12 years after he was improperly fired by the Postal Service. Disgracefully, the USPS has appealed the ruling.

News Article | August 2, 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 2, 2025

Breakfast for Champions

Supporting the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team is the latest endeavor for the APWU Human Relations Department. APWU locals and state organizations are being called upon to host a breakfast and rally our members to cheer for this remarkable team of champions when they come to your area to play...

News Article | August 2, 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 | August 2, 2025

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 | August 2, 2025

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 | August 2, 2025

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 | August 2, 2025

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 | August 2, 2025

Questions About Veterans Preference

The following are APWU responses to frequently asked questions about Veterans' Preference:

News Article | August 2, 2025

New Diseases Associated With Agent Orange

Those of you who served in Vietnam should know that the list of illnesses that the Veterans Administration is accepting as possibly being related to exposure to Agent Orange is growing.

News Article | August 2, 2025

Veterans’ Assistance And Resource Committee

To provide additional assistance and to keep our members informed about issues that affect them, the Human Relations Department has created a Veterans' Assistance and Resource Committee. The committee has been tasked to provide updates, training resources, information, understanding and guidance.  

News Article | August 2, 2025

Stewards’ Status in MSPB Appeals

Recently, the union has received inquiries about the right of stewards to prepare appeals to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) while “on the clock.” After a review with APWU’s general counsel, the following represents the APWU’s position on this subject matter: