Thursday, October 10, 2024

Third postal contract expires with no deal reached as APWU bureaucracy prepares sellout

"...The American Postal Workers Union covers over 200,000 postal workers across four main crafts: Clerks, Maintenance, Motor Vehicle Services, and Support Services.

This means that three of the four postal unions are now working under expired contracts, even as USPS management is carrying out an historic attack on jobs and on postal services under the “Delivering for America” restructuring program. This seeks to transform the Postal Service into an automation-driven parcel delivery service—at the expense of vital mail services, lower-income and rural customers, and postal jobs—and ultimately to privatize it.

This underscores that rank-and-file postal workers are in a fight, not just against management, but sellout union bureaucrats. ...

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This Article is From: www.wsws.org


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