Campaign for Dignity and Respect: Stand up For Safe Jobs
Postal workers are essential workers who keep our mail moving. Whether it’s a birthday card or life-saving medications, we move millions of pieces of mail from one end of the country to another. Often unseen, we are proud of our work to bind the country together.
We deserve a job where we can show up, safely do our work, and clock out knowing that we’ve contributed to the postal mission. But a vicious cycle of short staffing and a toxic work culture hurts postal workers and our communities.
For far too long, the Postal Service’s leadership has failed to promote a healthy workplace environment.
The culture of bullying and toxicity from managers has created a hostile work environment that makes workers’ lives miserable, hurts everyone’s morale, and, too often, forces dedicated workers out of the service.
On Workers Memorial Day, postal workers across the country began a campaign to demand dignity, respect, and adequate staffing to get the job done.
The culture of bullying and toxicity from managers has created a hostile work environment that makes workers’ lives miserable, hurts everyone’s morale, and, too often, forces dedicated workers out of the service.
We are saying “Enough is enough!” and taking action together to demand Dignity and Respect from postal management. It’s time to end the short-staffing crisis, stop management’s toxic practices, and keep delivering a strong public Postal Service.
APWU Workers Memorial Day of Action Recap
On Workers Memorial Day, APWU members took to the streets to demand dignity & respect in the workplace, and tell management to address short-staffing and hostile work environment issues. Media outlets across the country picked up the story - here is a small recap of some of those stories.
EVERY ONE OF US CAN GET INVOLVED!
1) WEAR A STICKER:
Wear campaign stickers in support of our campaign to end toxic workplace environments and short staffing.
The voice of one person may be ignored. When we all speak up together, we are unstoppable. Take the union survey on Workers Memorial Day to share your experiences.
Take a minute to record a video sharing how ending hostile workplaces in USPS facilities can help you deliver better services.
Record a video!
Postal workers, like all workers, deserve a job where we can show up, safely do our work, and clock out knowing that we put in a good day’s work. But a vicious cycle of toxic work culture and short staffing is hurting postal workers and the communities we serve. We are speaking up together to demand dignity and respect from postal management so that we can end the short-staffing crisis, stop toxic management practices, and keep delivering a strong public Postal Service.
Will you speak up too? Take a minute to record a video sharing how ending hostile workplaces in USPS facilities can help you deliver better services.
Share a story to inspire your coworkers to speak up together against hostile work environments. Such as:
- a) Why postal workers deserve dignity and respect;
- b) A time you spoke up against workplace harassment; or
- c) Why postal workers need to speak up now to end toxic work environments.
Resources for the Campaign for Dignity and Respect
Check the resources below to download one of three sticker designs:
- APWU Postal Workers Deserve Dignity & Respect;
- Let's Stop Workplace Harassment APWU Speak Up Together;
- Stop Workplace Harassment
Resources for our campaign
Stickers


Flyers


Cartoons


Digital Assets: Wallpapers, Toolkit & Virtual Backgrounds


Fact Sheets


Other Safety Resources


Photos from our April 28 Day of Action












See the full gallery of images from Workers Memorial Day on our Flickr account:
Campaign for Dignity and Respect
October 1, 2022
USPS sees ‘massive turnover’ in non-career workers as union protests short-staffing
The Postal Service says it’s getting operations on the right track after years of pandemic-related challenges. But the...
April 29, 2022
MD: POSTAL WORKERS PROTEST OVER JOB CONDITIONS
MD: POSTAL WORKERS PROTEST OVER JOB CONDITIONS
April 29, 2022
Postal workers in Waterloo walk out in protest of short staffing, toxic work environment
/*-->*/ Postal workers in Waterloo walk out in protest of short staffing, toxic work environment
April 29, 2022
Postal employees say they’re fighting ‘toxic’ work environment
"Staffing is a big issue," Jane Duggan with the Michigan Postal Worker Union Retirees Chapter told CBS Detroit. "And...