Union solidarity is taking the wind out of Trump’s push to privatize the USPS.
Postal unions call National Day of Action to stop privatization
October 3, 2018 by
Local supporters will rally over the noon hour Oct. 8, outside the downtown Minneapolis Post Office.
Postal workers to Staples: ‘The U.S. mail is not for sale!’
April 30, 2014 by
U.S. Postal Service employees from the Twin Cities rallied with supporters April 24 outside a Staples store in Roseville, part of a nationwide day of action opposing plans to put USPS service counters inside Staples locations across the country. Already, 82 Staples stores in Georgia, California, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts house USPS service counters, and postal […]
Postal unions plan ‘Stop Staples’ protests April 24
April 2, 2014 by
Staples and the U.S. Postal Service have cut a deal that will replace full-service post offices with privately run post offices inside Staples stores. These knock-off post offices will not be staffed with Postal Service employees. This back-room deal jeopardizes the mail service, local post offices and thousands of middle class jobs, postal workers say. […]
Letter to the Editor: State Fair trip provides another sign of postal privatization
September 30, 2013 by
Our Minnesota State Fair prides itself in offering new things to be found on the fairgrounds each year. But this year, I found one of the State Fair’s new offerings distressing – and insulting – to me. I have regularly attended our “Great Minnesota Get-Together” since childhood, and for as long as I can remember […]
Strike threw a monkey wrench into Montgomery Ward’s holiday plans 75 years ago
December 1, 2012 by
More than 30 workers in St. Paul threw a monkey wrench into Montgomery Ward’s holiday-shopping rush Dec. 6, 1937, walking off the job after management at the mail-order company’s University Avenue plant refused to negotiate with their elected union representative, Warehouse Employees Local 20,297. The picket line drew 300 supporters on the strike’s first day, […]
