Category: New Day at USPS
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Women’s Issues at USPS
In a belated commemoration of International Working Women’s Day on March 8 and Women’s History Month, New Day at USPS highlights the ongoing struggles faced by women across the Postal Service.
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The 1970 Postal Strike and its Lessons for Today
March marks the 56th anniversary of the 1970 Postal Workers Wildcat Strike. The strike—illegal then as it is today—was a response to stagnating wages, a lack of full collective bargaining rights, authoritarian management, unsafe working conditions, and sellout union leadership. It was a demonstration of rank-and-file workers taking matters into their own hands to fight…
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Mail Handlers Facing Another Sellout Contract
The most recent NPMHU contract update, dated Dec. 12 and titled “Economic Discussions Intensify,” reports that talks have focused on “areas of disagreement,” including proportional cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) and the “persistent disparities” in pay between Mail Handlers and other postal jobs. They then go on to say the negotiating team demonstrated their proposals’ “reasonableness” and…
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USPS Peak Season Report
Published in: New Day at USPS Mail Handler Assistant Injured in Charlotte The November edition of New Day at USPS reported on the tragic deaths of Russell Scruggs Jr. and Nick Acker, two postal workers who were killed in separate, preventable incidents tied directly to USPS’s neglect of worker safety in its push to speed up holiday-season…
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On Peak Season
Across the industry, under immense pressure from management to meet increased demand, “peak season” is a time of immense stress, grueling long hours, intense speed-ups, and increasingly dangerous working conditions for logistics workers. USPS is, of course, no different; last year, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, USPS reportedly moved nearly 10 billion pieces of mail. For…
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On Contract Negotiations
In 1970, 200,000 rank-and-file postal workers went on strike, combating a situation they referred to as “collective begging,” in which they had to make their pleas to Congress, hat in hand, for any changes to their working conditions. After the success of that action, a deal was struck. The workers would have the opportunity to…