By Melanie Trottman – February 20, 2015 The American Postal Workers Union is making a big ask as part of contract talks it kicked off Thursday with the U.S. Postal Service: It wants the post office to expand customer offerings to include financial services. That will be a challenge. The recently departed postmaster general, Patrick…
By Bill Brickley – February 17, 2015 “Though the Postal Service is in the midst of an economic turnaround many in Congress envision the Postal Service as a sort of pinata to be broken apart so the corporate sector can further enrich themselves. They disregard three straight years of an operational profit and ignore the…
In this issue: Enforce our contract to save Maintenance jobs Black history in the Post Office Building a new future through Collective Bargaining Open season for Maintenance Craft PER update Lessons from Europe: the winners and losers of postal privatization New faces on Capitol Hill Campaign for Postal Banking: A win/win âDonât Buy Staplesâ Campaign…
By Lisa Rein – February 12, 2015 The American Postal Workers Union will join other labor and advocacy groups Thursday to announce a new coalition designed to âsaveâ the U.S. Postal Service from service cuts and efforts to privatize the mail system. The coalition of 63 religious coalitions, retiree organizations, educational and postal unions, lawmakers…
By Dave Jamieson – February 11, 2015 With the idea of postal banking becoming more mainstream in the U.S., the head of the largest union of postal workers says he plans to make a revived banking service part of his union’s upcoming contract talks with the U.S. Postal Service. Mark Dimondstein, president of the American…
Nearly 17 million American adults live in households where no one has a checking account; more than 50 million more have a checking account, but also have to rely on things like payday lenders and check cashing stores, according to a new report from United for a Fair Economy. These numbers include more than half…
For Immediate Release 01/19/2015 – Expanding Low-Cost Financial Services through the United States Postal Service is a Way to Put More Money into the Pockets of Low-Wage Workers and to Provide Banking to Americans in Rural and Urban Areas with Few Banking Options United for a Fair Economy, One of the Coalitionâs Founding Members, Releases…
The year 2014 was certainly historic on the postal and logistics front. Alibaba entered the U.S. market with a bang, setting a record with the largest ever U.S. initial public offering. For the first time ever, non-mail revenues exceeded mail revenues for postal administrations around the world. Shippers braced for the full effect of dimensional…
