September 30, 2021 The United States Postal Service is implementing changes starting Friday October 1 that will slow down mail delivery for tens of millions of people and affect billions of pieces of mail. That date marks the first day of the new service standards for First Class Mail and Periodicals which USPS management is…
Web News Article #: 234-2016 10/28/2016 – The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is celebrating an organizing victory! Workers at the Mail Transport Equipment Service Center (MTESC) located in Urbandale, Iowa, voted to join the Des Moines Area Local. The MTESCs are run by postal subcontractors, servicing the sorting and palletizing of mail trays, bags…
Web News Article #: 121-2016 06/13/2016 – The APWU has updated a brochure that dispels common misconceptions about the Postal Service. The brochure, Our U.S. Postal Service is Under Attack, tells union members and the public the truth about the Postal Service’s phony financial crisis, the threat of privatization, and the potential for expanded and…
By Silver Krieger – May 15, 2016 New York, NY – Thursday, May 12, A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service, a coalition of 130 organizations, met at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem, and held a hearing in front of a wide range of politicians and activists. …The presentation began with a…
Web News Article #: 73-2016 04/05/2016 – The results are in: 96 percent of those who responded to a survey conducted by Costco, the discount retailer, said they oppose privatization of the U.S. Postal Service. In February, Costco Connection magazine ran a survey, “Should the Postal Service be Privatized?” The magazine included a pro-privatization article…
Costco’s February 2016 edition of The Costco Connection has a 2 page article debating privatization of the USPS. Click Here or on the page images below to take part in the debate and vote NO in the poll. Source: The Costco Connection Related: Attention Shoppers! Costco Wants to Know: Should USPS Be Privatized? | APWU
Published on Sep 23, 2015 Ken Lerch, longtime labor activist and the President of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 3825, discusses how postal workers are fighting back against the efforts to privatize the postal service and to bust the unions. “If we’re not prepared to strike, we won’t be successful in our fight.”…
On August 13, a delegation representing six signatories to A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service met with the Postmaster General, Megan Brennan at Postal Headquarters in Washington, D.C. This meeting was a historic first for the Alliance as we continue to build towards a vibrant public Postal Service for generations to come….
