Alexandra Bradbury

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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.

Jobs, Voting Rights, and Trayvon on Marchers' Minds

In 1963 the AFL-CIO chose the wrong side of history and sat out the original march. This time, a sea of union T-shirts blanketed the National Mall.

Don’t 'Lean' on Me, Hospital Workers Say

Hospitals are adopting Toyota's methods for squeezing more out of each worker. The result? Management by stress—and worse care for patients.

It’s Caregivers vs. Privatizers in New York and New Jersey Hospital Wars

Thousands marched and danced across the Brooklyn Bridge to the strains of a brass band in a jazz funeral for Brooklyn health care. Fierce workers are keeping two threatened hospitals alive.

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