APWU East Bay Area Local #47 officers and members protesting at Staples store SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Bay Area postal workers are protesting in front of a San Francisco Staples store because they’re upset about a deal between the office supplies chain and the postal service. Postal employees are worried about losing their jobs because […]
National Review’s John Fund on the U.S. Postal Services’ partnership with Staples. http://youtu.be/_nIHYWE4O80
APWU members and supporters in California are preparing for the first round of protests at Staples stores on Tuesday, Jan. 28. The first rally will take place at 10 a.m. in San Francisco, in front of the Staples store at 1700 Van Ness Ave, with a second set to begin at 4 p.m. in San […]
Janice Kelble, legislative director of the New Hampshire Postal Workers Union, told the Union Leader newspaper, “We are adamantly opposed to any efforts to replace decent postal jobs with non-union, low-wage, non-postal workers who have no accountability for the safety and security of the mail.” And that gets to the root of what has some […]
APWU leaders in California recently delivered the union’s message to 13 Staples stores in the San Francisco Bay area: Opening postal retail units staffed by non-USPS employees is a disservice to postal workers and the nation’s mail service. An APWU delegation covered a lot of ground on Jan. 14, paying visits to the office-supply retail […]
APWU News Members of the Charlotte (NC) Area Local visited three Staples stores on Jan. 14, to deliver letters protesting the establishment of postal retail units staffed by low-wage, non-union, non-postal workers. Managers of two of the stores seemed to be aware that a group might be coming, reports Local President LeRoy Moyer, but the […]