US Postal Service Workers Protest Staples Partnership in Palo Alto (audio)

(KGO) – United States postal workers took to the streets of Palo Alto with a message for Staples executives meeting inside a downtown hotel. As KGO’s Jeannie Lynch reports, the protest was over the postal service’s new partnership with the office supply company. Caroline Frederico with the US Postal Service claims the partnership takes away…

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Staples Execs Get an Earful At Annual Shareholders’ Meeting

Web News Article #: 109-14 June 2, 2014 – Staples’ board of directors got an earful on June 2, when they attended the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in upscale Palo Alto, CA. Fifty APWU members and supporters – including students from nearby Stanford University – chanted loud enough to be heard throughout the executives’ brief…

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Americans to tell Staples annual meeting – Our country is not for sale!

Postal Service workers have served their country with pride for generations. Who would approve a business plan that promises to deliver for pennies a simple letter connecting Americans to one another with efficiency? Only workers dedicated to public service could achieve such a lofty and noble goal. But in recent years the ‘run the government…

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APWU May 30 Press Release: Postal Workers to Protest at Staples Annual Meeting

Company Challenged on No-bid Sweetheart Deal with US Postal Service as 21 San Francisco Post Office Stations Reduce Hours of Service For Immediate Release May 30, 2014 – PALO ALTO — Members of the American Postal Workers Union will protest a no-bid, sweetheart deal with the United States Postal Service on Monday, June 2, immediately…

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