The Postal Service and Staples are working overtime to keep the details of their sweetheart deal a secret, but a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board — and documents the USPS was forced to provide to the APWU — have revealed some disturbing truths. “Staples and postal management are perpetrating a fraud on the […]
As reported earlier on Chicago Postal Workers Demonstrate Against USPS Partnership With Staplesthe article noted the presence of USPS Communications specialist Mark Reynolds. Now a video [thanks to APWU member Rich Shelley via 21st Century Postal Worker] shows Postal Police at the Staples protest. Postal Police at a Staples store??? A $62,000+ a year USPS Communications […]
ELMWOOD PARK, Ill. (CBS) – Roughly 200 postal workers and supporters picketed Saturday afternoon in front of a suburban Staples store, demonstrating against the postal service partnership with the office supply chain to provide some mail services. “The public will not have their mail protected like they should, their privacy protected, so this is not […]
Karen E. Schenck – USPS District Manager, Chicago District responded to this article: Members of the American Postal Workers Union from the Chicago area, joined by hundreds of labor and community activists, will protest on Saturday, April 5, in Elmwood Park, against a deal between the U.S. Postal Service and Staples to move mail services […]
Message to Staples: Staff Postal Counters with Postal Employees StopStaples.Com #StopStaples Members of the American Postal Workers Union from the Chicago area, joined by hundreds of labor and community activists, will protest on Saturday, April 5, in Elmwood Park, against a deal between the U.S. Postal Service and Staples to move mail services into Staples […]
The National Association of Letter Carriers is taking a stand in support of the APWU’s fight against the sweetheart deal between the USPS and Staples that puts postal retail operations in Staples stores — and staffs them with low-wage, high-turnover Staples employees rather than postal employees.
APWU Web News Article #041-14, March 4, 2014 Seventy-five APWU members and supporters braved cold weather and high winds on March 4 to protest outside a Staples store in Atlanta and demand that the company staff “postal counters” in its stores with postal employees. Atlanta is one of four test sites of a USPS program […]
In a complaint issued Feb. 25, Region 5 of the National Labor Relations Board found merit in APWU charges that the Postal Service has improperly refused to provide the union with information about its agreement with Staples. [NLRB decision-PDF] The pilot program has placed postal counters in 82 Staples stores — staffed with Staples […]
Many APWU members have asked, “What makes the Staples program so important? How is it different from the other programs that outsource postal retail functions – the grocery stores that sell stamps and the Village Post Offices in hardware stores and gas stations in small towns?” “The difference is the scale,” said Clerk Craft Director […]
The Postal Service’s largest union has harsh words for Rep. Darrell Issa, and is raising alarm over a pilot partnership with Staples, which it warns is a stalking horse for privatization – a goal the union alleges draws support or indifference from key Democrats. “I think Congress and the White House are pretty much working […]