Around 8,800 post offices have already cut some hours during the past year and one half, 300 have scheduled public meetings and 3,900 have not scheduled a meeting or implemented any such changes. “If implementation continues at the current rate (about a hundred a month), some 600 of these post offices will have their hours reduced during the spring and summer,” SavethePostOffice says. To see an interactive map showing post offices planning to reduce services, click here.
USPS Liberation Portal
Saturday, April 19, 2014
USPS Liberation Portal: Protest Noon–1pm, Sat., April 19: MainPostOffice, ...
USPS Liberation Portal: Protest Noon–1pm, Sat., April 19: MainPostOffice, ...: Portland Communities and Postal Workers United contact: Jamie Partridge 503-752-5112 cpwunited1@gmail.com ...
Protest Noon–1pm, Sat., April 19: MainPostOffice, 715 NW Hoyt
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Friday, April 11, 2014
The Postal Service should remain a vital public service
- Saturday, April 19 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm at the Main Post Office in Portland Oregon...
Join the "postal protectors" in sending a message to postal management that the Postal Service should remain a vital public service owned by the people rather than by profit-hungry private corporations. Bring a dollar to buy stamps. We'll supply the postcards, chants, songs, signs, banners and snacks.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Stop Privatization of the People's Postal Service April 19
Join
the "postal protectors" in sending a message to postal management that
the Post Service should remain a vital public service owned by the
people rather than by profit-hungry private corporations. Bring a
dollar to buy stamps. We'll supply the postcards, chants, songs, signs,
banners and snacks.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Privatizing Post Office Continues
Movement Towards Privatizing Post Office Continues
Privatizing Post Office ContinuesEDUCATE! WORKER RIGHTS AND JOBS
By Melissa Landon, www.irjci.blogspot.com
Because the U.S. Postal Service will change its staffing policies in September, as many as 3,300 postmasters could lose their full-time jobs. The policy involves shortening post-office hours and providing more part-time positions and fewer full-time ones. “By October, the institution of the small-town career postmaster will become a thing of the past at almost half the country’s post offices,” says SavethePostOffice.com. (Hat tip to the Daily Yonder)
By Melissa Landon, www.irjci.blogspot.com
Because the U.S. Postal Service will change its staffing policies in September, as many as 3,300 postmasters could lose their full-time jobs. The policy involves shortening post-office hours and providing more part-time positions and fewer full-time ones. “By October, the institution of the small-town career postmaster will become a thing of the past at almost half the country’s post offices,” says SavethePostOffice.com. (Hat tip to the Daily Yonder)
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Save Our Postal Service: Stop Staples Privatization: Organize!
supply chain.
Staples has contracted with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to staff post offices installed within their stores. In pilot openings last fall, 82 post offices were launched inside Staples stores with low-paid, nonunion, non-postal workers (the average Staples worker makes $18,000 per year.
If the pilots are “successful,” the USPS plans to open post offices inside every one of the 1,600 Staples stores nationwide, beginning this September.
The postal service claims it is expanding service to postal customers by providing retail outlets in Staples stores, which are open evenings and on Sundays. The APWU, which represents postal retail workers, would accept the Staples deal if union-represented, highly trained, accountable and uniformed postal workers staffed the offices.
Friday, April 4, 2014
2014 Labor Notes Conference Update
"I'm at the Labor Notes Conference this weekend in Chicago; a couple of hundred of us from the conference will be joining the Staples picket tomorrow!
http://www.apwu.org/news/forthepress/pressrel140404-staples-chicago.htm
Hundreds of Chicago Postal Workers, Joined by Labor and Community Activists, Protest Outsourcing...
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