Category: New Day at USPS
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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…
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Our Path Forward
Postal workers are facing an all-sided attack. Under constant efforts to privatize the post office to increase profits, since 1999, we have seen over 250,000 jobs lost, and despite nominal increases in wages, inflation has far outpaced these gains, leaving USPS workers with significantly less in our pockets compared to decades ago. In 2021, multimillionaire…