Boycott Staples! AFSCME Supports Postal Workers

From the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL–CIO: AFSCME has endorsed the American Postal Workers Union’s boycott of Staples, which was given a no-bid contract by the U.S. Postal Service that would allow Staples to staff in-store Postal Service counters with its own low-paid employees. In a July 2 letter to Staples […]

How Are BAIN Capital, The Staples CEO, and The USPS All Connected?

Senator Bernie Sanders told me and other union members last weekend that if conservative ideologues get control of our government, then the Postal Service would be privatized in five minutes. This privatization will put all postal employees’ jobs/retirements in peril and eliminate our country’s most trusted government service that millions of people depend on. It […]