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  • Postal Workers Need Support from the 99%
    Paul Felton
    Jan 19 2012 - 1:25pm
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    On December 19 Oregonians occupied post offices that were slated to close in 17 rural communities. Carrying Christmas cards, cookies, and gifts of appreciation for postal workers, the occupiers collected signatures on petitions to Congress to change the laws that caused the Postal Service’s $8.5 billion budget deficit.

  • 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.

  • Help Save Six-Day Mail Delivery
    Labor Notes Staff
    Jun 18 2010 - 6:06am

    Postal workers are asking for your help to save the vital services they provide, along with their jobs and unions. Postal Service management is planning to close more than 100 local post offices, consolidate others, and end Saturday delivery.

  • 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.