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News Article | September 11, 2014
PMG ‘Wanted’ in Salt Lake City
If Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe thought his speech to a group of business mailers in Salt Lake City on Sept. 10 was going to be a quiet, uneventful affair, he was mistaken. A coalition of unions and postal customers showed up outside the Grand America Hotel, the site of the speech, to protest...
News Article | September 11, 2014
The PMG’s Trumpeted Attack – Forewarned is Forearmed
The Postmaster General’s Federal Register announcement makes management’s intent to impose more consolidations and cuts crystal clear. Even if we succeed in our legislative efforts, the USPS Board of Governors will plow ahead with their strategic initiatives to “rationalize” the network and streamli...
News Article | September 11, 2014
Privatizing by Incentivizing
We often think of privatization as the transfer of public ownership. However, the Postal Service’s policy of offering postage discounts to large mailers has led to a similar harmful end result – a huge transfer of work and revenue from the public sector to the private sector – without a change in ow...
News Article | September 11, 2014
Consolidation Attack – We Must Mobilize!
When the USPS announced on June 30 that it would move forward with plans to close or consolidate 82 more mail processing plants, it was a declaration of war. Not just on postal workers, but on postal customers and on the existence of a public Postal Service for future generations.
News Article | September 6, 2014
More than Half of Senate Now Backs Call to Stop Consolidations
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has added his high-profile support to calls for a one-year moratorium on USPS plans to close 82 mail processing plants and slow mail delivery. Reid has joined 50 other senators who signed a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee calling for a ban on US...
News Article | September 6, 2014
Postal Unions Hold Historic Joint Webinar on Plant Consolidations
The four postal unions held a historic joint webinar on Aug. 28 for union members at the 82 sites where plants are scheduled for consolidation or closure beginning in January 2015. The occasion marked the first time the four unions have engaged in joint training at the national level. The webinar pr...
News Article | September 6, 2014
Connecticut Senators, APWU Denounce Consolidations
Connecticut Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy condemned USPS plans to consolidate two Processing and Distribution Centers in the state at a press conference on Aug. 27 and urged Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to agree to a one-year moratorium on 82 plant consolidations that are schedu...
News Article | August 29, 2014
OIG Asks: Should the Postal Service Continue Its Consolidation Plan?
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is conducting a poll on its ‘Pushing the Envelope’ blog to determine whether it should advocate for or against the Postal Service’s plan to resume consolidation and closure of up to 82 mail processing plants.
News Article | August 20, 2014
Tell Your Congressman: Sign the Letter!
A bipartisan group in the House of Representatives – five Republicans and five Democrats – has drafted a letter to leaders of the House Appropriations Committee calling for a one-year moratorium on Postal Service plans to close mail processing plants and slow down mail delivery. APWU President Mark...
News Article | August 14, 2014
‘Stop Postal Service Cuts and Plant Closures’
Half of the U.S. Senate has called for a one-year moratorium on Postal Service plans to close mail processing plants and slow down mail delivery. An Aug. 14 letter signed by 50 senators said Congress should block a proposal by Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe to close as many as 82 mail process...
News Article | August 11, 2014
Ask Senators: Stop Service Cuts and Plant Closures
The work of APWU members and supporters across the country is paying off: Fifty senators have agreed to co-sign a letter to the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee urging them to stop devastating cuts to America’s postal network. To ensure the Senate Appropriations Committee acts to prot...
News Article | August 7, 2014
The Senate Can Help Stop Service Cuts and Plant Closures
A move by the USPS that will slow America’s mail service and that threatens tens of thousands of jobs requires an urgent response, said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. On June 30, the USPS announced its intention to close and consolidate 82 mail processing facilities in 37 states throughout the cou...
News Article | July 1, 2014
APWU to Launch Vigorous Campaign Against Plant Closures, Consolidations
On June 30, the APWU denounced plans by the Postal Service to resume the closure and consolidation of up to 82 mail processing plants beginning in January 2015. “This is a direct assault on service to the people of the country, on postal workers and on the Postal Service’s own network,” said union P...
News Article | June 30, 2014
APWU to Launch Vigorous Campaign Against Plant Closures, Consolidations
The APWU today denounced plans by the Postal Service to resume the closure and consolidation of up to 82 mail processing plants beginning in January 2015. “This is a direct assault on service to the people of the country, on postal workers and on the Postal Service’s own network,” said union Preside...
News Article | March 20, 2014
Four Postal Unions Form Historic Alliance
Declaring that “the U.S. Postal Service is under unprecedented attack,” the presidents of the four postal unions have formed a historic alliance to fight back.