The son of a postal worker, Jay Galione, brings you the stories of courageous workers standing up to injustice and fighting to Save The People’s Post Office.
In Jay Galione’ss directorial debut, Gone Postal, tells the personal story of his father, a 30-year postal clerk who was harassed, threatened, and fired for standing up for fellow employees.
The cross country investigation began in 2008, taking the filmmakers Jay Galione and Sheila Dvorak from California to North Carolina, Florida, Arizona, New Jersey, Washington D.C. and finally to New York.
Published on Jun 19, 2014
http://youtu.be/qgz3EFWO1GE
As Jay describes the film:
Gone Postal is more than a documentary film about what’s happening inside the Postal Service, it’s a critical part of the movement to Save The People’s Post Office. Kept in the dark for too long, we have stood by as the Postal Service is stolen out from under us. We are up against the trillion-dollar mail industry and its politicians who are privatizing our Postal Service in order to raise prices and lower wages. Now postal workers and activists are fighting back.
But the only way to reclaim our historic and public communication service is to educate, motivate, and inspire the American people. We must defend what’s ours before it’s gone. That’s why we need to release this film now to
- STOP the Sale of properties paid for by taxpayers.
- STOP the shift from living wage to low wage jobs.
- PROTECT our universal, affordable access to communicate from every corner of the country.
Sheila Dvorak is a filmmaker and activist whose narrative and documentary films have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and screened in theaters nationwide.
PostalReporter first highlighted this film in 2012.
Suckas as I’ve always said: The worst Supervisors were the worst Craft Workers.
mrod: downsizing through technology is to be expected in this day and age. What should not be accepted is management falsifying numbers and harassing craft workers to work at unreasonable and often unsafe paces and our unions simply rolling over saying we’re lucky to be working at all in this economy. We the workers are being sold out from all sides.
Mr. Galione , we thank you for hanging in here on this quest to save what Congress doesn’t give a hoot about any more ! They just hung out for grabs in the 70’s and is still hanging out there !! Just waiting for the hang man to kick the stool out from under it ! ! !
No mrod there will always be a need for people to deliver the mail. Management hijacked the post office, took simple jobs and made them difficult in a hostile environment.
Mr. Mrod, technology and machinery has nothing to do with how the Postal Service is mismanaged, or how so badly the employees are treated. How does technology stop the Postal Service from spending millions each year because of contract violations? In 2012, the Postal Service paid over 100 million in arbitration awards and costs. And why is only the Postal Service made to prefund it’s health care costs?
one word says it all, management!
Technology and machinery took the jobs