The postal workers' struggle

Postal workers exhausted, in grim battle with COVID-19, abandoned by management, top union leaders doing nothing  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, December 12, 2020)

The situation among postal workers as of 11-5-2020:  and its relation to the presidential elections (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, November 6, 2020)

Activists ponder what to do if there is an election day coup, while the top union leadership does nothing:  As the elections near...the situation among postal workers as of 10-8-2020 (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 10, 2020)  

In the midst of crisis, union leaders go to sleep:  the situation among postal workers, late September 2020 (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, September 26, 2020)

Postal workers outraged as attacks on the postal service continue, but what are the postal unions doing?  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, August 26, 2020)

Fight to preserve postal service and jobs: Postal workers demonstrate across the country on Friday, November 14 (Detroit Workers' Voice #114, November 13, 2014)

Postal workers and postal service under attack: The disastrous letter carriers contract, how the leaders of the National Association of Letter Carriers praise it, and the move to five-day delivery of letters, instead of six (three articles based on the presentation at the Detroit Workers' Voice Discussion Group meeting of February 10, 2013). Also Detroit Workers' Voice #106 (February 20, 2013).

Lobbying fails again: Senate Democrats vote for 5-day mail delivery in bill S.1789.
Stop management/Congress war on postal workers and public service!
(Detroit Workers' Voice #104, June 1, 2012, PDF version)

Fight back against the anti-worker campaign! USPS management declares war on postal workers, and also cuts postal servce (Detroit Workers' Voice, September 4, 2011)

Solidarity against the sellout of new workers!
No to wage cuts and 30-hour flex work schedules!
Vote NO on the APWU contract ! (Detroit Workers' Voice, April 5, 2011)

As contract negotiations at the post office intensify: Watch out for two-tier wages and other concessions! Detroit Workers' Voice #96, December 15, 2010 (PDF version).

We need mass action to fight postal management (On the 20th convention of the APWU:
Mass action depends on rank-and-file rebellion against postal management and the no-struggle policy of the union leadership) Detroit Workers' Voice #93, August 21, 2010. (PDF version).

Demonstrate at the main Detroit postal facility against postal management's anti-worker offensive! Detroit Workers' Voice #92, June 24, 2010. (PDF version)

"Watch out for Obama’s new attacks on immigrants! Full rights for immigrant workers!" and
"Support postal workers against job cuts, forced relocation, overwork, and reduction to five-day mail delivery!" Detroit Workers' Voice #89, April 13, 2010. (PDF version)

Support postal workers against job cuts, forced relocation, overwork, and reduction to five-day delivery! Distributed mainly among other workers to gather support for postal workers.
Detroit Workers' Voice #88, April 12, 2010. (PDF version)

The March 31st picket was a big success: Keep up the fight against excessing, forced relocation, and five-day delivery! Distributed, mainly among postal workers, in preparation for the April 14 protest rally in front of the Highland Park, Michigan postal station
Detroit Workers' Voice #87, April 12, 2010. (PDF version)

All out for the March 31 picket (in front of the Fort St. postal facility in Detroit)! Postal workers, unite against job cuts, forced relocation, and overwork! Detroit Workers' Voice #86, March 27, 2010. (PDF version)

Help build the postal picket! Come to the APWU planning meeting this Friday! Fight to keep our jobs! Detroit Workers' Voice #85, March 17, 2010. (PDF version)

Postal workers - oppose jobs cuts and forced relocation! We need mass action now!
Detroit Workers' Voice #84, March 12, 2010. (PDF version)

"We will not be destroyed! Stand up to postal management's attacks!" Detroit Workers' Voice #83, June 24, 2010. (PDF version)

Fight anti-worker postal cutbacks and support the anti-dictatorship struggle in Iran: Detroit Workers' Voice #80, August 15, 2009. (PDF version)


Postal service on a rampage against the workers
by Postal Observer
(Issue #43, vol. 15, #1, June 1, 2009)

Postal workers: Vote 'no' on the APWU contract!
from Detroit Workers' Voice #62, 12K, Dec. 24, 2006

Postal management vs. workers' safety
(DWV #51 and CV Issue #36, vol. 11, #2, September 10, 2005).)
Two brief items on the working conditions in the post office:
-Postal management negligence helped kill Brenda Campbell
-Postal management again ignores safety

No to Bush's postal commission: Fight Bush and USPS management's attacks on postal workers from Detroit Workers' Voice #39, Sept. 15, 2003, 16K, and in CV #32, vol9, #2, October 8, 2003

Against the privatization drive:
Post office 'Transformation Plan' attacks workers and universal service --
Postal management heads for privatization (25K)
(Issue #30, vol. 8, #3, Dec. 15, 2002, and Detroit Workers' Voice #31, August 27, 2002)

Anthrax: Postal management's handling of anthrax shows callous disregard for workers (20K), by a Detroit postal worker

Only rank-and-file organization can save letter carriers: Mass struggle is the way to a decent contract --
On the June 9 national information picket of NALC, the letter carriers union
(Detroit Workers' Voice #23, May 12, 1999)

Postal workers -- vote no! The tentative contract settlement is an insult!
(Detroit Workers' Voice #21, Dec. 9, 1998)

Fight USPS slave-driving and privatization (Detroit Workers' Voice #19, May 27, 1998, 22K)

Settlement trades small gains for maintaining part-timers' misery: UPS workers wage major contract battle (from Detroit Workers' Voice #16 )

Postal workers under attack:
DWV: Resist management efforts to ruin letter carriers
Impotent strategies against postal privatization
(Issue #8, Vol. 2, #3, June 1, 1996)

DWV vs. plans of postal management 
(CV Issue #4, Vol. 1, #4, Sept. 15, 1995)

Detroit Workers' Voice: Fight the contract on the workers and the poor
A critique of "Solidarity Organization Committee's" stand on the struggle in postal
(CV Issue #2, Vol. 1, #2, June 1, 1995)


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