2016 All Over Again? – Will APWU endorse Bernie Sanders?

Is the APWU about to endorse Bernie Sanders for president? Did they interview all the presidential candidates or just the one that our national president supports? I keep hearing that Bernie Sanders is the champion of postal issues. No kidding we alert him to our issues and he speaks on our behalf. My guess if…

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Bernie Sanders has a plan to save the postal service (video)

By Evan McMorris-Santoro – April 19, 2018 President Trump has made the mail big news. After a Twitter rant about the Washington Post, Trump launched a presidential commission to look at the finances of the U.S. Postal Service and the deals it cuts with companies like Amazon, which, like the Post, is owned by Jeff…

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APWU President Dimondstein on 2016 Election Results

Web News Article #: 238-2016 11/10/2016 – To APWU Members, The Presidential election is over and Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States. Throughout the primaries and general election there was a revolt against the “establishment” and politics as usual. People clearly wanted a change. As a union whose members cover the…

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Ralph Nader Blog: Big Union Leaders Betray Sanders and Workers

Around a conference table inside the large Washington headquarters of the AFL-CIO, a furious exchange occurred between labor union presidents. It was late February and up for decision by the Executive Council was whether the country’s principal labor federation was going to make a primary season endorsement of Hillary Clinton as favored by the leaders…

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The Problems And Promise Of Postal Banking

January 12, 2016 It is easy to overlook the problem of the unbanked and underbanked in the United States — if for no other reason than it is far from the endemic problem here that it is in other parts of the world. However, depending upon the exact data set one is using, a full…

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APWU: Sanders’ Antidote to Wall Street Corruption Includes Postal Banking

Web News Article #: 002-2016 01/06/2016 – In a speech given just blocks from Wall Street, Sen. Bernie Sanders promised to implement postal banking as one of the ways to fix the country’s broken and corrupt financial system. “If elected president, I will rein in Wall Street so they can’t crash our economy again,” Sanders…

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Thom Hartmann discusses Bernie Sanders’ Postal Banking plan to save the PO

Published on Nov 4, 2015 Tonight’s Rumble discusses the ruling in Mexico saying that smoking marijuana is constitutional, how Republicans are trying to deregulate Wall Street via the Highway Bill, and Bernie’s plan to transform the Post Office while helping poor Americans (starts at 19:24). In tonight’s Daily Take Thom discusses the latest wedge issue…

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Sanders Jokes: “Let Postal Service Deliver Marijuana to Raise Revenue” (VIDEO)

By Tom Angell – October 22, 2015 U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders made history last week at a Democratic primary debate by becoming the first major presidential candidate to indicate he’d vote in favor of legalizing marijuana if given the chance. But now, thanks to Jimmy Kimmel, Sanders might have a way to use marijuana to save…

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