postal

  • What’s Behind Postal Crisis? Privatization.

    The push to dismantle the U.S. Postal Service’s distribution and delivery network is a scheme by corporate privatizers to crush the largest organized workforce in federal employment, pick apart a trusted government service, and grab the most profitable parts of the business for their own enrichment.

  • 492 Rallies Tell Congress: Don't Kill the Post Office
    Evan Rohar
    Sep 28 2011 - 5:33pm

    The nation’s postal unions organized 492 rallies across the country Tuesday in support of federal legislation that would relieve the burdensome requirement that postal employees pre-fund decades worth of retirees’ benefits.

  • Unions Say Postal Default Is a Big Lie
    Jenny Brown
    Sep 27 2011 - 9:51am

    The story line from Postal Service management is simple and apocalyptic: The public is emailing and paying bills online, bankrupting the post office. Postal unions say that's dead wrong: They say the bosses are manufacturing a crisis to push a union-busting privatization agenda. The unions are rallying nationwide today.

  • Canadian Government Pulls a Wisconsin on Postal Workers
    Howard Ryan
    Jun 21 2011 - 4:07pm

    After 48,000 Canadian postal workers launched a rolling strike in response to unproductive contract negotiations, the country’s Conservative government is pushing back hard. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has introduced back-to-work legislation that bears the smell of Wisconsin and Ohio.

  • Postal Union Brings Back Work, but Divides It
    David Yao
    Apr 21 2011 - 11:30am

    Debate is raging inside the Postal Workers over a tentative contract that brings back thousands of contracted-out jobs, but creates a lower wage scale for new employees and an additional second-class workforce.

  • Winnipeg Wildcat: Postal Workers Refuse Unsafe Work
    Howard Ryan
    Dec 1 2010 - 3:06pm

    A spontaneous one-day walkout of 70 Canadian postal workers over injuries triggered by a mechanization scheme has inspired a rising tide of solidarity. It serves as a reminder of the enormous power of a simple bold act.

  • 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.

  • Postal Unions Battle Cuts to Jobs, Service
    David Yao
    Nov 3 2009 - 1:13am

    The Postal Service, in a financial crunch that threatens both jobs and service to the public, is looking to Congress for help. If postal unions want to avoid the auto workers’ fate, they need to find allies and make their case publicly.

  • "We Had Royal Mail, and We Let It Go"… But Not This Time
    Sheila Cohen
    Oct 30 2009 - 10:19am

    Following strikes in 2007, UK postal workers are walking out again over pay cuts, speed up, and government privatization schemes—77,000 mail carriers will walk out on October 31.

  • Teamsters Trade Gains of 1997 UPS Strike for Deal to Organize Members at Freight Division

    Mark Brenner

    In mid-November Teamsters at United Parcel Service approved a controversial five-year agreement, more than eight months before the expiration of their current contract. . . .


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