postal workers

Postal workers’ hunger strike over, victory declared

December 26, 2012 By Communities and Postal Workers United

The hunger strikers called on postal management to suspend cuts and closures and allow Congress to fix the finances by repealing the prefunding mandate and refunding the pension surplus.

Hunger strike underway in D.C.

June 26, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Planned cuts to the U.S. Postal Service that would cost more than 100,000 active workers their jobs and other cuts, prompted eight retired union Letter Carriers to begin a hunger strike in D.C. on June 25....

The year 2047: a postman’s nightmare

May 15, 2012 By John Dick

I often wonder how this could have happened to this once great nation.

Workers say fight to save Post Office goes on

May 1, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

By a 62-37 vote on Apr. 25, the Senate approved a modified postal "reform" bill, S1789. The battle over the future of the Postal Service now moves to the GOP-run House.

How to save America’s postal service

April 20, 2012 By Special to People’s World

Sen. Bernard Sanders' bill is the way to go. Competing legislation that dismantles the USPS, fires workers, closes centers, slows the mail or trashes union contracts, these are not.