Fifty years ago, postal workers waged a heroic nationwide strike to win better pay, benefits and the right to collective bargaining. This strike also recreated the United States Postal Service as an independent agency, designed to be free from the political patronage and cronyism that had plagued the old Post Office Department.
The APWU is deeply concerned with the appointment process to make Mr. Louis DeJoy, a multi-million-dollar major donor to President Trump, the next Postmaster General and whether the Administration has returned to the days of political interference and patronage.
Since gaining its independence in 1970, the Postal Service’s commitment to quality universal service to all the people of this country, at uniform and reasonable rates, has made the United States Postal Service the world’s most affordable and reliable postal service and the country’s most trusted and highest rated government agency.
Mr. DeJoy has a choice as he assumes the reigns of our national treasure, enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, which has overwhelming popular support equally among Republicans, Democrats and Independents from the most populated urban centers to the smallest rural towns.
He can choose to be a Postmaster General who implements the destructive plans of this White House: raising postal rates, cutting services, undermining stable union and family-sustaining jobs and selling the public Postal Service to corporations for their private profit.
And if that is his choice, Mr. DeJoy will be met with stiff resistance from postal workers and the people of this country.
Or Mr. DeJoy can prove true to his stated commitment to the public Postal Service, its employees and our mission binding the country together through universal service to all. If so, he will be a welcome addition to the postal family and our proud tradition of public service.
In this extraordinary time of the pandemic crisis, reliable, affordable and universal postal services are needed more than ever. The Postal Board of Governors made a unanimous request to Congress for immediate and direct financial assistance to the Postal Service. We hope that Mr. DeJoy will join in this essential request for emergency assistance to replace revenue lost due to the economic impact of the pandemic and to ensure continued public postal services.
When outgoing Postmaster General Megan Brennan announced her retirement, the APWU joined with other national organizations in petitioning the Postal Board of Governors to select a replacement “who is fully committed to universal service and the public ownership of the Postal Service.” The people deserve nothing less.
Through many Postmasters General and Administrations, the objectives of the American Postal Workers Union and proud postal workers have remained steadfast, as they do today: decent jobs, safe working conditions, job security, social justice, and an enhanced and vibrant public Postal Service for generations to come.
Yes – we deserved the raise and COLA that our new contract awarded us! We also deserve heroes pay for all the dangers we face, day in an day out! Thank the lord that we have a union that fights for us! Yours truly, I am a postal worker for over 23 years and proud of it!
APWU and NALC sold their souls, and our futures, for 3%-4% raises and a few COLA’S over every contract. NEVER a word about bloated management ranks or needless make work jobs Nothing but lip service about the toxic work environment and incompetent managers except some stupid MOU’S that went nowhere. Every contract negotiation was some back door deal when it wasn’t arbitrated. Don’t forget that the radical Obama took our dues and gave the green light for five day delivery, which we will surely see soon. Sometimes when you lay down with dogs, you get fleas.
betcha, you come across as a rabid idiot. You are actually complaining about Obama when Trump is the one that wants to take our jobs? Typical Trumptard.
It’s about time for an outsider to lead the Service. Decades of wasteful and inefficiency had gotten us here.
Time for a change.
Wait and see how Mr. Idiot’s P.M. is going to act? The new P.M. is a cash donor of our” great” leader,so what ever his is told to do he will do! Our leader hates the living wage Postal employees make, the unions that represent the employees, and the job protections our grievance procedures . In the senate and house bills have been introduced to fire at will Federal employees,H.B. 3348 and S.B. 1898. They would give O. P. M. 30 days to conduct a hearing on removals. If a decision isn’t rendered in those 30 days, the removal is granted. At the present time over 2,500 cases are backed up at O.P.M. If big changes happen and employees lose their jobs, pay is cut, retirement and health care cut, then the Mr. Bankruptcy supporters will be the first to cry and blame the corrupt unions. So give him a chance? The supporters of our “great ” leader can always get employment at gun stores. remember your pal is the one that said ” Take injections of bleach or Lysol to clean out your lungs”. Just keep following him!
We have to deal with the elephant in the room. USPS needs to have accountability while being run like a fortune 500 company.
“Don the Con” now has his cronie, in place, to begin the Privatization process. This is all a political move as the “Don the Con” hates Bezo’s. Trump has no compassion for humanity and is only concerned with what goes into his back pocket. The postal service delivers to every address in the United States which no other mailer will do. Postal Workers need to unite to keep the benefits, and the workplace, which you now have.
You should stop your right radical agenda.You think it’o.k. to work for free without any health care,retirement, union protections, or gun free work environment. How many Postal employees have been shot and killed? Why one just last week!! right wingers can’t keep their guns at home where they belong. It is better to follow a “great” businessman that has filed for bankruptcy six times, legally took wages from workers and funds owed to businessmen. Lies everyday and tells his citizens ” receive injections of bleach and Lysol to clean out the lungs. So go ahead and follow our “great ” leader.
Try screaming at the sky – that should help.
Our “great” leader Mr.Bankruptcy is on his way to destroy the postal service. He wants a private co. to take over and pay it’s employees as little as possible. Go ahead and make the Postal morons that voted for you happy. they can work for nothing , have terrible health care, and work without a union. Better yet make them contract employees like Amazon, then they would have less! Mr. Bankruptcy supporters don’t need pay or health insurance. they can survive with a bible and gun only!
Absolutely correct fact! The can is no longer being kicked down the road.
There is no cure for TDS – the next 4 and a half years will be excruciating for you.
make the post office great again stop your left wing radical agenda the usps was in trouble way before trump
Why don’t you wait and see how the new PMG handles things before you condemn him.
Do you really believe the Postal Service would have fared any better under a president Clinton II?
yes i do,and have no sympathy for my fellow postal workers who support IQ45,or the tea party,aka the treason party