Message to Staples: The U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale WASHINGTON – Thousands of members of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and community activists will engage in National Day of Action on Thursday, April 24, to protest the Postal Service’s sweetheart deal with Staples that is moving mail service into Staples stores. Events will […]
StopStaples.Com #StopStaples The APWU will hold two Telephone Town Hall meetings to discuss the campaign to Stop Staples. President Mark Dimondstein will talk with union members about the threat the USPS deal with Staples poses to our jobs — and to the public Postal Service. The Telephone Town Hall meetings are expected to last approximately […]
APWU Web News Article #029-14, Feb. 14, 2014 Playing a protracted game of hide-and-seek, the USPS and Staples are refusing to come clean about the pilot program that outsources postal retail work to the office-supply chain. The USPS brushed off the union’s Nov. 22, 2013, 27-point request for information, claiming most of the requests were […]
Highlights of Jan. 28 protests at Staples stores in San Francisco and San Jose to stop the privatization of postal retail operations. (4:00) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qejW7SYcw0U&list=UULwUiRV8200UoXTyRo77mUQ&feature=share A new video takes a closer look at the union’s recent protests in in San Francisco and San Jose to stop the privatization of postal retail operations at Staples stores. […]
The APWU is ramping up its campaign demanding that Staples and the USPS agree to place postal workers at postal units in Staples stores. Join the campaign at StopStaples.com or text POSTAL to 91990. APWU President Mark Dimondstein has sent an email message to union members and supporters urging them to sign on to the […]
More than 150 APWU members and supporters took part in a lively protest outside a Staples store in San Francisco on Jan. 28, challenging a deal between the company and the U.S. Postal Service that staffs “postal” counters in Staples stores with non-postal employees. The deal threatens good-paying union jobs and jeopardizes public post offices, […]