Category: A Grand Alliance

Grand Alliance Holds Congressional Briefing to Defend Public Postal Service

A Grand Alliance

On July 15, A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service held a Congressional briefing at the United States Capitol. The briefing’s three-member panel included APWU President Mark Dimondstein, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) Associate Fellow Scott Klinger, and National Coalition on Black Civic Participation President and CEO Melanie Campbell. The panelists discussed the ongoing attacks on the public Postal Service, the public Postal Service’s importance to our country, and the legislative action needed to […]

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Task Force: No Fire Sale, But Privatization Threat Looms | APWU

A Grand Alliance, APWU News

The long-awaited report of President Trump’s Task Force on the future of the Postal Service was released Dec. 4, months after its original August deadline. While the task force stopped short of proposing an immediate, full-scale fire sale of the Postal Service, it’s no wonder the White House held the report until after the midterm elections – its recommendations would slow mail service, stop the Postal Service from innovating and would, indeed, privatize vast swaths […]

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Association of Flight Attendants-CWA Produces Video Against Postal Privatization!

A Grand Alliance, APWU News, APWU Video

In a strong show of solidarity, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA produced a video to educate flight attendants about the importance of public services and the role of solidarity in winning our fights.“The U.S. Postal Service mail and packages fly on our planes. The routes we fly to communities across the country depend on a strong United States Postal Service. We’re standing with our sisters and brothers from [the four postal unions] to stop privatization!” […]

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Washington Post Gets It Wrong

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A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service In a Feb. 13, 2017 opinion piece,  “The Postal Service needs more than a Band-Aid,” The Washington Post editorial board issued a troubling public stance on postal reform. The Post created a false dilemma for its readers: that we must curtail postal services (including Saturday delivery) and eliminate jobs to save the USPS from certain deterioration and failure. They claim the Postal Service “can’t pay their bills” and is sluggish to […]

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A Grand Alliance To Save Our Public Service

A Grand Alliance

The United States Postal Service is a wonderful national treasure, enshrined in the Constitution and supported by the American people. Without any taxpayer funding, the USPS serves 150 million households and businesses each day, providing affordable, universal mail service to all – including rich and poor, rural and urban, without regard to age, nationality, race or gender.The U.S. Postal Service belongs to “We, the People.” But the USPS and postal jobs are threatened by narrow […]

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Ask Me About A Grand Alliance!

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(This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Courtney Jenkins and Sherry McKnight (Baltimore Local), Nora Taggart and Kevin Walsh (New York Local). President Mark Dimondstein reported to delegates in his State of the Union speech at the union’s National Convention in August that A Grand Alliance “is now a reality and consists of more than 140 organizations, including 80 national labor, faith-based, community, environmental and civil rights […]

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