postal workers

  • Vermont Postal Unions and Occupy Unite to Save the Mail
    Liz Blum
    Mar 26 2012 - 12:14pm

    In the face of huge cuts planned for the Postal Service, dozens of facilities threatened with closure have won a reprieve. That's giving hope to Vermont postal workers and supporters fighting to save the mail and good union jobs.

  • Postal Workers Need Support from the 99%
    Paul Felton
    Mar 1 2012 - 10:25am

    With service cuts and at least 100,000 layoffs threatened, what's happened to the Postal Service? Congress saddled it with billions of dollars of obligations, an attack that will take an army of activists to undo. Glimmers of hope are on the horizon.

  • Strike Wave Sweeps Brazil

    Workers in Brazil—in heavy industry, services, the public sector, and agriculture—are waging a series of strikes and mass protests such as the country hasn’t seen in decades. Bank workers have shut down 8,328 banks in the country’s 26 states.

  • Canadian Postal Workers Fight Closures, Speedup, Two-Tier
    George Floresco
    Jan 5 2011 - 10:07am

    The Canadian Union of Postal Workers aims to stop cuts despite hard times, less mail, and their boss’s love affair with machines. CUPW is reaching out to the public, proposing expanded services.

  • A Postal Worker Talks Back to FOX

    [This article was written for the newsletter of the American Postal Workers Union Greater Seattle Area Local, where David Yao is vice president.]

    The following is my own transcribed version of the notorious September 16 episode of a Fox Business Network show that insulted postal workers, called for postal privatization, and said that much of the American middle class “should have been pushed down.” My own comments have been added, in italics and bold.

  • British Postal Union Calls Off Strike
    Sheila Cohen
    Nov 21 2009 - 1:37am
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    Five 24-hour strikes in mid-October over speedup, harassment, and lost jobs brought down media and government accusations demonizing British postal workers for potentially denying the public “their Christmas.” Unnerved, postal union leaders cancelled further actions.