Idaho Sends Resolution Opposing Plant Consolidations to U.S. Senate
An Idaho resolution opposing mail processing plant consolidations and USPS service cuts was delivered to the U.S. Senate on April 19 – a year after Postal Service shuttered the Pocatello plant.
Consolidations in ‘Deferred Status’
Postal workers and postal customers got some good news recently: The Deputy Postmaster General notified a member of Congress that “consolidation activities remain in a deferred status.” A one-year moratorium on more than 70 plant consolidations and...
USPS Loses Money on Closures and Mail Slowdown Plan
Over the last few weeks, news has spread about a bombshell report that postal management’s supposed cost-saving decision to shutter plants and slow down the mail has actually lost the USPS money. As reported in Government Executive, “The U.S. Postal...
A Chance for Change in 2016
Thousands of APWU members took part in the 2014 convention.
Get involved and join the fight for justice.
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
This year there is so much at stake for...
Pocatello Takes On Washington
Pocatello Mayor Brian Blad speaks to a reporter at a
Pocatello Local rally, also attended by
Chubbuck Mayor Kevin England.
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine).
A group of elected...