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

Portland Communities and Postal Workers United                contact:  Jamie Partridge 503-752-5112 cpwunited1@gmail.com                                                                                                                                                                                             April 19, 2014 – Press Advisory To contact US Postal Service management: -Brenda Jackson, transportation manager (trucking), 503-294-2402             -Lisa Shear, senior plant manager (mail handling and mail processing), 503-294-2206             -T. Kim Anderson, Portland district manager,503-294-2500 Postal privatization protest at Main Office What: “Creative Action” in post office lobby When: Noon – 1pm, Saturday, April 19 Where: Main Post Office, 715 NW Hoyt (at Broadway) “Postal truckers are losing their jobs to a profiteering, private corporation,” declared Jamie Partridge, a retired postal worker with Portland Communities and Postal Workers United.  “We protest the privatization of the public postal service.  We oppose the destruction of family wage, union jobs and the delay of the people’s mail.” Portland postal truckers are being put on standby while the private, non-postal, non-union Dill's Star/ LAPO trucking company takes their work.  Dill's is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington. “This privatization and union-busting is being carried out in the name of a phony financial emergency,” said Rev. John Schwiebert, one of the protesters planning the action.  “The security, safety, and timely delivery of the mail are all at risk.  Rural communities, seniors and the disabled, small businesses and low-income communities are hit the hardest.  Postal management needs to stop and reverse these closures, cuts, and subcontracts which are sending our beloved postal service into a death spiral.” PCPWU is demanding that postal management reveal why a padded, no-bid contract was signed with a bankrupt company, which did not have the proper equipment, which had been rejected in the past for “poor performance and equipment deficiencies”, which was recently convicted of major labor law violations, and which is costing the USPS more to move the mail than if the postal service were to use postal employees. Portland Communities and Postal Workers United (PCPWU) has been fighting cuts and closures to the postal service for the past couple years.  In May of 2012, ten activists were arrested occupying Portland’s University Station post office, which has since been closed.  In April of last year, five protesters went to jail for a civil disobedience action at the Salem mail plant, which has now been dismantled.  The same group has blockaded Dill’s Star Route trucks multiple times, demanding the company stop stealing family wage, union postal jobs.  Seven PCPWU protesters were arrested in October, at the Portland Main Post Office, for refusing to leave when the district manager would not meet with them to discuss privatization. (attached – letter to postal management)

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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.

                 Photos of my friends at USPS Main Office

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Stop Privatization of the People's Postal Service April 19

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  Saturday, April 19 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm

• USPS Main Office Portland, Oregon 97208

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.

Privatizing Post Office Continues

Movement Towards Privatizing Post Office Continues

http://uspsactivismresource.blogspot.com/2014/04/privatizing-post-office-continues.html

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)

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.

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Save Our Postal Service: Stop Staples Privatization: Organize!

ON APRIL 24, a national day of action–STOP STAPLES–will target the nation’s largest office
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.

http://socialistworker.org/2014/03/25/a-new-postal-workers-unity

2014 Labor Notes Conference Update

Jamie Partridge

24 mins

"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

Chicago Postal Workers To Protest Outsourcing of USPS Services to Staples

Hundreds of Chicago Postal Workers, Joined by Labor and Community Activists, Protest Outsourcing...

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