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News Article | May 4, 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 | May 4, 2026

Nurses Interest-Arbitration Scheduled

Arguments over disputed contract issues for postal nurses will be heard by an interest arbitrator beginning March 23. The National Postal Professional Nurses-APWU contract expired Aug. 20, 2007, and the union and the Postal Service agreed to submit it to interest arbitration late last summer after n...

News Article | May 4, 2026

Postal Workers: Now is the Time to Get Involved!

For many years most of our membership has left too much of the fighting for jobs, better wages and our rights and benefits to stewards and officers. It’s not enough. We all have to do more. Times have changed. We have fought off privatization for years. We have come up against a government that has...

News Article | May 4, 2026

Privatizers Say: Contract Out Everything But Delivery

In January, a group of “postal industry thought leaders” published a paper that advocates contracting out all postal functions except delivery — a plan that is often referred to as “the last mile strategy.”  The paper, titled “Restructuring the U.S. Postal Service: The Case for a Hybrid Public-Priva...

News Article | May 4, 2026

Social Security Disability Insurance Event Shines a Light on Program’s Importance

News Article | May 4, 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 | May 4, 2026

VMF Jobs and Authorization to Hire

Some USPS managers are reported to be claiming they are not authorized to hire or post the duty assignments. However, a Sept. 7 notice [PDF] to Area Operations Vice Presidents about posting vehicle maintenance positions states:

News Article | May 4, 2026

What’s the Big Deal About ‘Service Standards?’

On Jan. 24, 2014, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe announced a postponement of the second round of cuts to service standards, which were scheduled to take effect Feb. 1.

News Article | May 4, 2026

‘Closures’ Report Reveals Inconsistencies

Call it what you will, shuttering retail Postal Service facilities reduces public service, and the public has been watching. Late last year, the Congressional Research Service issued a report titled “Post Office and Retail Facility Closures: Overview and Issues for Congress.” The study chronicles cu...

News Article | May 4, 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 | May 4, 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 | May 4, 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 | May 4, 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.

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