April 7, 2015 The Postal Service’s chief regulator hopes for financial solvency for the troubled agency, stability of service for rate-payers, and co-operation among a new set of leaders in Washington to effect the changes that can achieve it. Excerpt URBANSKI: You sat on an interesting panel recently at the Brookings Institution, and this many…
Tracy Goldizen – April 7, 2015 OTTUMWA â When I was a kid, I spent hours sorting baseball cards. There was no shortage of them to go through â my dad was and remains and avid card collector. “First sort, second sort, third sort” is a running family joke. But as Patrick Shelby and I…
[maxgallery id=”35076″]Shirley Dunaway, postal activist, and John Dennie, a long-time postal activist and organizer, speak out against the deal cut by former Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe with Staples to allow all 1500 Staples stores to set up mini-stations not staffed by trained postal employees. This is a highly risky proposition, not only deliberately undermining the…
By Bill Brickley – April 7, 2015 Excerpt: When speaking on Postal Reform a month ago in Florida he blasted the Postal Service: âThere are two sectors in the economy. The productive sector: you. And the non-productive sector: the people who live in Washington. They donât make anything. They canât even run the post office….
Web News Article #: 077-2015 04/07/2015 – The labor movement will observe Workers Memorial Day on Tues. April 28, to commemorate those who have been killed or injured on the job and to revitalize the fight for workplace safety. Workers Memorial Day coincides with the anniversary of passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act…
Web News Article #: 076-2015 04/06/2015 – On April 15, APWU members will greet last-minute tax filers and reporters at post offices around the country with a message many of them havenât heard before: The Postal Service gets zero tax dollars. âTax day is a good time to inform the public about this little-known fact,â…
