Thursday, June 12, 2014 Your June 3 editorial, âWelcome to the real world,â calls postal workers âchildishâ because we oppose a no-bid deal that shifts postal duties from highly-trained U.S. Postal Service employees to low-wage Staples workers â who have little to no instruction in how to handle the U.S. mail. Next time, you might…
Pressure Mounts on Struggling Company to Abandon Operating Postal Counters as âDonât Buyâ from Staples Campaign Wins Endorsement from Teachers, AFL-CIO For Immediate Release June 13, 2014 – PITTSBURGH â A nationwide campaign against a no-bid, sweetheart deal between the U.S. Postal Service and Staples will come to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, June 17. Members of…
Published on May 20, 2014 APWU President Mark Dimondstein discusses postal finances — and how Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe seems determined to use the ginned-up crisis to justify piecemeal privatization and drastic cuts in service. ⶠAPWU President Mark Dimondstein on The Ed Show, May 20, 2014 – YouTube.
Mark Dimondstein kept Boise Weekly waiting for nearly an hour-and-a-half. He had been waylaid by a union meeting, and another, and still another–regional members of the American Postal Workers Union had gathered in Boise in mid April and they wanted some face-time with their new national union president. By the time BW had the opportunity…
