More than 50 people picketed a U.S. Postal Service facility in Industry where union members say plans to relocate first-class mail processing to Orange County will result in big delays to San Gabriel Valley customers.
The union members, chanting that Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe wanted to “destroy” the postal service, said they came to send a message to Donahoe, who they say was supposed to tour the facility but canceled at the last minute. Plans to relocate the first-class mail processing to Santa Ana starting in January will affect 70,000 businesses and delay deliveries by days, union members said.
“This is a huge global area for businesses, it’s not just affecting people that live in Industry,” said Barnesa Chatterfield, an automation clerk for 26 years at the plant. “It’s a problem for anybody who has ever put something in the mail,”
Members of the American Postal Workers Union protest outside a USPS distribution center in Industry, CA during a visit by the Postmaster Genera
Unions protest Postal Service processing plant relocation from Industry to Santa Ana
I guess mail delivery in The San Gabriel Valley will start at 1:00 P.M. with yesterdays mail.
congress at its best
John Q. Public doesn’t give damn. The APWU should be worrying about the shameless level of representation being provided to the employees of Industry. They will all fare much better by going over to a class local union in Orange County. Most of the 50 that demonstrated are stewards that will lose out on their cushy life styles and have to actually work for a living instead of spending their time in the union office having pizza!
Time to get other Union’s to get out and help and bring their kids. This will effect everyone not just Postal Employee’s.
Lamber, you should care when you see any of the elements that make up the foundation of your country being dismantled.
You should care when democracy loses control of government, the justice system, education.
You should care when a business interest trumps the interest of the citizens of your country.
You should care because some in Congress propose that tax money be used to provide mail service, after the businesses involved cherry-pick the easy delivery areas for themselves.
Congress’s ongoing attempt to bankrupt the post office, requiring the pre-payment of 75 years-worth of some employee retirement benefits, is criminal and corrupt.
And you should acknowledge the corruption, even if you still don’t care.
Should they care? I don’t think so.