Category: New Day at USPS
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What the National Postal Forum Means for Postal Workers
The issue of privatization has been a major talking point for years within the postal service. Privatization is the process of selling parts of the public service, operated for the public good, to private interests which seek to maximize profit. When the postal service is discussed in these terms, this motivation to operate in the…
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International Workers’ Day Edition – NDUSPS
On May 1, workers around the world celebrate “May Day,” a holiday honoring the struggles past and present through which the working class has fought not only for better wages, shorter hours, and safer conditions, but ultimately for collective power over society itself. As workers in America, it is our responsibility to understand our place…
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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…