Alexandra Bradbury

Staples Plucks Postal Jobs

The point is to close more post offices—and minimize public outcry. Will customers take the bait?

Will Grocery Workers Hold the Line For Part-Timer Health Care?

As employers seize upon the Obamacare excuse, grocery unions are struggling to keep part-timers in their health care plans.

Does Your Copy of Labor Notes Take Forever to Arrive?

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Seriously, we’re as frustrated as you are—and so are postal workers.

Closures of mail processing plants have hit small newspapers hard. Take The Bullard Banner News in Texas. After the nearest USPS plant closed in June, the weekly paper’s route to local mailboxes now detours through a plant 120 miles away. One subscriber reported getting no paper for weeks—then three in a day.

Postal Workers Elect New Leaders Who Pledge to Build a Movement

A diverse slate of local leaders has won top seats in the American Postal Workers Union, promising to beat back contract concessions and organize a grassroots coalition to save the Postal Service.

A Hundred Arrested Protesting Walmart Firings

They didn’t strike this time—but Walmart workers and their allies marched, rallied, danced, blew horns, and took arrests in a coordinated day of action, protesting the company’s recent crackdown on worker activists.

Could a New Union Leadership Stop Sell-Off of Post Office?

A diverse slate of local leaders is making a bid to unseat the national officers of the American Postal Workers Union—and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

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