postal

  • Postal Unions Battle Cuts to Jobs, Service
    David Yao
    Nov 3 2009 - 1:13am

    The Postal Service, in a financial crunch that threatens both jobs and service to the public, is looking to Congress for help. If postal unions want to avoid the auto workers’ fate, they need to find allies and make their case publicly.

  • "We Had Royal Mail, and We Let It Go"… But Not This Time
    Sheila Cohen
    Oct 30 2009 - 10:19am

    Following strikes in 2007, UK postal workers are walking out again over pay cuts, speed up, and government privatization schemes—77,000 mail carriers will walk out on October 31.

  • Teamsters Trade Gains of 1997 UPS Strike for Deal to Organize Members at Freight Division

    Mark Brenner

    In mid-November Teamsters at United Parcel Service approved a controversial five-year agreement, more than eight months before the expiration of their current contract. . . .


    Yes
  • Postal Workers Fight Privatization With Private-Sector Organizing

    by Leah Samuel

    In March, 350 employees of the Alan Ritchey, Inc. (ARI) Mail Transport Equipment Service Center in Chicopee, Massachusetts voted 205-130 to join Local 497 American Postal Workers Union.

    The Chicopee campaign is part of a national effort by the APWU to counteract the privatization of mail services.


    Yes