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News Article | April 9, 2026

Union Demands: Count HCR Drivers as Casuals

As part of our long-standing battle to protect our jobs against subcontractors, MVS officers at the national level filed a Step 4 grievance on Sept. 1, 2009, asserting that Highway Contract Route (HCR) drivers must be counted as casuals. The grievance (Case #HQTV20097) [PDF] has been appealed to arb...

News Article | April 9, 2026

Long-Term-Care Insurance

We appreciate our independence. However, as we age, many of us will need help performing everyday activities such as dressing, bathing, and moving from room to room. Our memory may deteriorate to the point that it impacts our ability to reason.

News Article | April 9, 2026

Help for Your Survivors

This column regularly covers topics important to current and future retirees and their families. Usually the topics are related to retirement itself, but this article is intended to help your “survivors” smoothly handle your affairs when you no longer are around.

News Article | April 9, 2026

Financial Aid for Students

As the cost of college continues to escalate, many parents find that they do not have the funds or resources needed to assure that their children can pursue a higher education. They fail to take advantage of the numerous student aid programs available at the state and federal levels because they sim...

News Article | April 9, 2026

News for Annuitants

The Retirees Department often is asked about deferred retirement for workers who are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System, the counterpart to the older Civil Service Retirement System.

News Article | April 9, 2026

Cataracts: Who’s at Risk?

A cataract is a clouding of the normally clear crystalline lens inside the eye. Cataracts are usually associated with aging, but may also be a consequence of a disease such as diabetes, a side effect of medication, or the result of trauma.

News Article | April 9, 2026

e-Team Report, Jan. 4, 2013

Out With the 112th Congress In With the 113th Congress New Congress, New Subcommittee Chair Speaker Vote

News Article | April 9, 2026

Pregnancy Discrimination

In 2005, approximately 4,500 charges of pregnancy-based discrimination were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC resolved nearly all of them, and recovered an average of $2,700 per complaint.

News Article | April 9, 2026

e-Team Report, July 12, 2013

Flurry of Postal Reform Developments on Capitol Hill Not a Cent! Senate GOP Threaten to Shut Down NLRB with Filibuster, Reform Considered    U.S. Military Veteran Postal Workers Honored Convenience or Corporate Greed? – The Banks Wants the First Bite! The U.S. Postal Service Must Remain a Public Goo...

News Article | April 9, 2026

Dispute Initiated Over 60 Day Excessing Notice to Employees

The union recently intiated a national dispute over management's failure to adhere to an agreement between the parties that when employees are excessed outside their craft or installation, such employees will be provided notice of a minimum of 60 days.

News Article | April 9, 2026

e-Team Report, Dec. 6, 2013

The Staples Deal: Postal Service Moves to Privatize Mail Service Letter Carrier Killed After Postal Cuts Create Unsafe Working Conditions APWU Brings the Street Heat Walmart Workers & Labor Groups Protest Poverty Wages on Black Friday From Picket Lines to Ballot Boxes, Workers Are Raising Their Voic...

News Article | April 9, 2026

Arbitrator Sustains MS-47 Challenge

In another recent national-level award, Arbitrator Shyam Das sustained the union's challenge to management's revisions to the custodial staffing handbook (MS-47) and ordered the Postal Service to rescind the 2001 MS-47 Handbook, reinstate the previous (1983) MS-47 Handbook, and reinstate or prepare...

News Article | April 9, 2026

Attend a Pre-Convention Workshop

The Research & Education Department is proud to announce that the APWU is sponsoring its 13th 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

Arbitrator Rules on USPS Refusal to Compensate Employees for Time Spent on a USPS-provided shuttle

In a decision [PDF] dated Aug. 30, Arbitrator Shyam Das denied the union’s grievance protesting management’s refusal to compensate employees for time spent on a USPS-provided shuttle that transported workers between USPS lodging and a training facility before and after their workdays or during their...

News Article | April 9, 2026

Personal Belongings During Interim Trips for Off-Site Training

A Step 4 agreement dated March 11, 2005, between the APWU and the USPS addresses the right of postal employees who are engaged in off-site training to leave their personal belongings in their rooms during interim trips.