Editorial: War on the USPS
It all began in 2006 during the Bush administration. It was the end of the U.S. Postal Service in this country as we know it. The Republican Congress passed legislation demanding the post office...
View ArticleWorking until age 80 due to lack of retirement savings could represent the...
Here is an interesting article on retirement from May 2014: During his 26 years at a packaging company in Charlotte, N.C., Pat Baines climbed the ladder to become plant manager and then a...
View ArticleEditorial: USPS Gearing Up for Contract Talks
Washington DC– With less than nine (9) months before negotiations begin over a new contract, management is signaling probable targets for hard bargaining. On the bargaining table will likely be health...
View ArticleStaples store invaded by postal protesters
Portland Communities and Postal Workers United www.StopStaples.com June 20, 2014 Dozens of protesters, carrying signs and banners, stormed a local Staples this afternoon and attempted to present a...
View ArticleEditorial: Why We Need to Support ‘GONE POSTAL -THE DOCUMENTARY’
Through the opportunity to work with Jay Galione, and Sheila Dvorak for a little more than a five-minutes on their project, I must proclaim that they are the lead activists of a very professional...
View ArticleEditorial: Postal Employees face multiple workplace health hazards not...
This is an old editorial posted on PostalReporter.com several years ago but it is still relevant today as it pertains to Postal Clerks–and postal workers in general. In an article last year from the...
View ArticleEditorial: Keeping the USPS alive
Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, has stated that he will cosponsor an amendment to maintain six-day delivery One way to stop the decline of the Postal Service would be to raise the price of postage, though...
View ArticleEditorial: Postal Workers – Divided and On the Fast Track to Being Conquered
We Are Our Own Worst Enemies By Fredric Jacobs, Oakland Local APWU President Many years ago, in a now-defunct comic strip, one of the characters announced, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” In...
View ArticleFormer CSAC member endorses Former PMG’s criticism of stamp program
A former member of the United States Postal Service’s Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee has endorsed former postmaster general Benjamin Bailar’s criticism of the current stamp program. Cary Brick, a...
View ArticleOPM Disability Retirement: Securing a Future
By Federal Disability Attorney Robert R. McGill Change is an inevitable feature of life. It is always difficult to accept the vicissitudes which interrupt the security found in the daily routine of...
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