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The Union and Company met today and reached a new tentative agreement. Assuming the tentative agreement is ratified, the agreement will become effective on Friday, April 5, 2013. The new agreement will expire February 11, 2017.

Exactly one week from today, $85 billion in automatic, across-the-board spending cuts will wallop the federal budget unless Congress can agree on an alternative way to reduce the nation?s deficit. It?s called the sequester. CWA recently joined AFSCME, AFGE and others in standing together to say, "Jobs, not cuts!" But with no solution in sight, working families should prepare for the worst.

In testimony before Congress, the Postmaster General estimates the U.S. Post Service can save $7 billion a year by taking control of its own health plan and improving service to their employees.