AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Chicago Teachers Union Leaders and Other Supporters Will Join Postal Workers to Send Message: The U.S Mail is Not for Sale For Immediate Release July 21, 2014 – Thousands of members of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), joined by supporters, including AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and leaders of the Chicago…
Web News Article #: 142-14 July 21, 2014 – Delegates to the APWU National Convention are ready for action after several days of pre-convention workshops and conferences. Monday, July 21, will feature a State of Our Union address by President Mark Dimondstein, speeches by several members of Congress, and messages of solidarity by postal union…
The PMG’s mad drive to undermine service and cut hours and jobs is going to get worse! His announcement to impose 82 more plant consolidations to begin in January 2015, coupled with the impacts of several hundred forced excessing events for this coming September area move date, requires a concentrated effort and fully educated preparation…
NORTH PARK — The U.S. Postal Service says it is investigating how hundreds of pieces of mail ended up in the trash last week. “The whole neighborhood’s mail was in the dumpster,” including scores of city sticker renewal notices and “a lot of private mail,” said Samuel Tenenbaum of the 60659 ZIP code, who made…
CHICAGO (WLS) — The I-Team is tracking slow and unreliable mail service and putting the U.S. Postal Service to the test. There’s now new evidence that the problem is growing. ABC7 Consumer Investigative Reporter Jason Knowles got an inside look at the local postal nerve center and what’s being done to speed things up. In…
(CBS) — Regular mail delivery is taken for granted by most people, but now there’s been a growing chorus of complaints from residential neighborhoods across the city to businesses in the Loop. The CBS 2 investigators learned some of the mail mess has been caused by a huge turnover in staff, from managers to mail…
