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News Article | May 22, 2026
OIG ‘Special Agents’ Don’t Have Special Rights
In a recent decision, the Employees Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB) ruled that the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) acted improperly when it terminated the benefits of an injured worker based on evidence that was impermissibly obtained (F.S., Appellant; Docket 11-863; Issued 9/26/20...
News Article | May 22, 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 | May 22, 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 | May 22, 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 | May 22, 2026
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Some employees who have had their medically suitable job withdrawn by the Postal Service as a result of the National Reassessment Process (NRP) are being denied wage loss compensation by OWCP because of a previous LWEC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 | May 22, 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 | May 22, 2026
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 | May 22, 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 | May 22, 2026
Award on USPS Use of Casuals in Lieu of Career Employees
An award by Arbitrator Shyam Das sustaining the APWU’s grievance over the Postal Service’s improper use of casuals in lieu of career employees.
News Article | May 22, 2026
Dispute Over 90 Day Notice of Excessing Appealed to Arbitration
The union recently appealed to national arbitration an issue concerning the employer's obligation to meet with the union at the regional level no less than 90 days prior to involuntarily reassigning bargaining unit employees outside their craft or installation.
News Article | May 22, 2026
e-Team Report, April 20, 2012
Tell Your Senators to Support Key Amendments to S. 1789
News Article | May 22, 2026
e-Team Report, April 5, 2013
Congress Back In Session Next Week, Look for New Co-Sponsors To Postal Bills Vacancies and Retirements in the 113th Congress A Look Ahead to 2014 Elections
News Article | May 22, 2026
News Article | May 22, 2026
e-Team Report, Dec. 31, 2012
New Year's Edition! Santa Added House Republicans to Naughty List New Members for House Postal Committee Senator Carper Launches Postal Losses Clock
News Article | May 22, 2026
Earn a Business Degree Online
Union members who are interested in starting a business, improving the performance of an existing business, or who are simply interested in acquiring business knowledge can do so by earning an online Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration from the National Labor College.