APWU: NLRB Hearing on Staples Concludes

Web News Article #: 114-2014 05/25/2016 – After nearly a year of procedural wrangling, 10 days of testimony and more than 140 exhibits, the National Labor Relations Board hearing on charges that the Postal Service illegally subcontracted work to Staples ended on May 24. Region 5 of the NLRB issued a complaint against the Postal…

 Continue reading

APWU: USPS, Staples Produce a Mound of Documents

Web News Article #: 207-2015 11/02/2015 – After months of refusing to provide documents subpoenaed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the APWU, the USPS and Staples produced a mound of paperwork on Oct. 20, less than two weeks before a hearing scheduled for Nov. 2. Rather than address the core of the…

 Continue reading

Union members protest at Staples in LaGrange, GA

By Donny Karr – July 13, 2015 LaGRANGE — Protesters gathered outside Staples on New Franklin Road on Friday to demand that residents boycott the office supply chain’s stores. The protest group was made up of members of the American Postal Workers Union in Atlanta. “We are boycotting Staples because they are taking away jobs…

 Continue reading