We are bringing at least 56 people to San Francisco CA to rally and march from the Blum Capital Partners to Sen. Feinstein’s office because over It is a conflict of interest to conduct public affairs for private advantage. We are leaving on a bus from the SWCAL office at 1251 N Tustin Ave, Anaheim, CA 92807 at 11 p.m on December 7th. We will return to our union office at 8 p.m. on December 8th. We will bring enough lunches,refreshments, signs, banners, bullhorn, chant sheets, informational flyers and other materials for over 100 participants to protest postal privatization. California State President Mike Evans and the State Legislative Director will be on the bus. We expect many APWU National officers to attend. We will have a number of local presidents Anaheim APWU Pres Rich Cantu, (Retiree pres) Bobby Donnelson, (Retiree VP) Frank Townsend, VP Dave Dodero, City of Industry Pres Terry Stoller, San Diego APWU Pres Tom Wood, LA APWU Pres Roy Dumas, LA NALC Pres Larry Brown LA NPMHU Pres Eddie Cowen and various craft officers including myself in attendance. Some media will travel with us and we have contacted other media to be on site. SF will van pool there.
Please join us!
Thanks
Kevin Cole
Community and Postal Workers United (the group that held a hunger strike in DC in June)
More info on the rally
On December 7th a Million-Aire Raid on Post Offices-This Is Not a Drill
Banks Got Bailed Out-Postal Service Got Sold Out
Senator Sets Policy as Spouse Profits by Post Office Sales
Community and Postal Workers to Protest Postal Privatization
When: December 8, 2012 at 7 a.m.
Where: Meet at Blum Capital Partners,909 Montgomery St.,San Francisco,CA,94133. Then march to Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office,One Post Street, Suite 2450,San Francisco,CA94104and back.
The $7 billion Blum Capital Partners owns the largest real estate brokerage firm on the planet—CB Richard Ellis. Richard Blum is chairman of the board. His firm won the contract to provide real estate services for post office sales. Blum is the spouse of U.S Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Rewind to 2009 when Feinstein introduced legislation to provide $25 billion in taxpayer money to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The government agency awarded CB Richard Ellis, a large contract to sell foreclosed properties at rates higher than the industry standard.
It is a conflict-of-interest to conduct public affairs for private advantage. National elected leaders on both sides of the aisle are advancing the postal privatization agenda.
“The postal service is not broke. The financial crisis is phony. The USPS is now destroying good, family wage jobs, as the privileged elite mount a fire-sale of public assets and services worth $68 billion.” said Kevin Cole, a local postal union officer.
On December 7th there is a million-aire raid on post offices. This is not a drill. Current plans to close half the distribution plants and thousands of post offices, eliminate six-day and door-to-door delivery, and abolish 200,000 jobs will send the postal service into a death spiral.
To justify these cutbacks, the Postal Service cites its financial crisis. Since 2006 the USPS has been forced to spend nearly 10 percent of its budget prefunding retiree health benefits 75 years in advance. No other U.S.agency or private business faces such a crushing financial burden. Without the unjust Congressional requirement, the USPS would have been profitable. HR 3591 and S 1853 would fix postal finances and protect the service.