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USPS Announces Termination of FSAFEDS Accounts for 2025 Plan Year, Provides New Enrollment Option for Affected Employees

January 17, 2025
On Dec. 30, 2024, the Postal Service notified the APWU that it is informing employees who enrolled in the FSAFEDS Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for plan year 2025 that their accounts will be terminated. FSAFEDS is no longer the FSA administrator...

Postal Workers and Allies: Stop the Slowdown!

January 17, 2025
Stop the Slowdown! The Postal Service proposed plans to decrease service standards to the detriment of our communities. Here’s why hundreds of thousands members of the public are standing up and fighting back against efforts to degrade the country’s...

Mail Processing Staying Put in Western MD

May 7, 2007
The Cumberland Area Local’s anti-consolidation T-shirt made its debut last summer. The APWU was notified May 4 that the proposed consolidation of some mail-processing operations involving two sites 90 miles apart in western Maryland has been...

Women’s Organizing Campaign Grows

May 7, 2007
Support for the Women’s Organizing Campaign is growing, with 89 locals and 17 state organizations participating, said Liz Powell, chairperson of the APWU subcommittee that is coordinating the drive. Because of new interest in the campaign, the...

St. Petersburg Consolidation to Proceed

May 3, 2007
The Postal Service has notified the APWU that it will implement plans to shift some mail-processing operations from the St. Petersburg (FL) Processing and Distribution Center to the Tampa P&DC. Citing declining mail volume at the St. Petersburg...

APWU Web Site 'De-Links' Locals During Union Election Period

May 2, 2007
The APWU national election period has begun, and in approximately five months, on Oct. 5, the counting of ballots will commence.  The rules for the election of APWU national officers, as prepared by the 2007 APWU National Election Committee,...

Pete Seeger: Activist, Master Songsmith

April 30, 2007
Even if you’ve never been to a labor rally, a civil rights demonstration, or a folk music concert, chances are you’ve been touched by the music of Pete Seeger. For more than six decades, this gifted performer has traveled the world spreading...

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