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News Article | April 9, 2026
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 | April 9, 2026
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.
News Article | April 9, 2026
Postal Unions Form Historic Alliance
Our survival as postal workers depends on our ability to build a genuine bond between the four postal unions. We share the same goals – a vibrant, public Postal Service, good pay and benefits, a safe work environment, and dignity and respect on the job. And we face the same adversaries: Top-level p...
News Article | April 9, 2026
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 | April 9, 2026
e-Team Report, Feb. 1, 2013
Upcoming Senate Hearing on Postal Finances Who Is Your Legislative & Political Grassroots Coordinator? USPS Job Cuts Weigh Heavily on Minorities and Veterans Postal Reform Can’t Wait! AFL-CIO’s Favors Comprehensive Immigration Reform that Strengthens Labor Rights for All
News Article | April 9, 2026
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 | April 9, 2026
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 | April 9, 2026
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 | April 9, 2026
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 | April 9, 2026
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 | April 9, 2026
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 | April 9, 2026
Senate Holds Hearing on Social Security Field Office Closures and Service Cuts
On Wednesday, the Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing to look at the impact of recent Social Security field office closures and service cuts. Although the Social Security Administration (SSA) is receiving record numbers of claims as the Baby Boomer generation hits retirement age, budget...
News Article | April 9, 2026
The Alliance Releases Annual Voting Record Rating Congress
On Thursday, the Alliance released its annual report detailing the voting record of every U.S. Representative and Senator on issues important to current and future retirees. The voting record looks at 10 key votes in both the Senate and the House and assigns a “Pro-Retiree” score for each member of...
News Article | April 9, 2026
APWU Nurses Advised That Contract – Though Expired – Still Offers Protection
As the bargaining team for APWU-represented nurses prepares for interest arbitration hearings beginning in late March, Support Services Division Director Bill Manley assured the unit’s members that the terms of their expired contract remain in effect.
News Article | April 9, 2026
Union Protests Assignment of ET Duties
The union has initiated a dispute at the national level (Case # Q06T-4Q-C-07270988) protesting the Postal Service’s decision to use contractors and other non-Maintenance Craft employees to install upgraded computer software on PARS machines. The duties in question are the responsibility of Electron...