Labor & Employment Law

Postal Workers March to Save Saturday Mail Delivery

By Mike Hall

More than 3,000 Postal Workers (APWU) members sent a special delivery message to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) yesterday in Detroit?don?t end Saturday service, keep the mail moving six days a week.

Both the APWU and the Letter Carriers (NALC) are fighting USPS’s request to Congress to eliminate Saturday delivery.

In the Motor City for their biennial convention, the APWU members were joined in the march and rally by union members from the Metropolitan Detroit Central Labor Council, Michigan State AFL-CIO and community allies, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson. They denounced USPS management?s plan to cut mail delivery. Says APWU President William Burris:

Ending Saturday mail service would slow service, drive away business, and lead to the demise of the world?s most efficient, affordable, and trusted postal system.

Learn more from APWU?s Five-Day fact sheet and Save Saturday Service pages.

Read the AFL-CIO Executive Council statement denouncing five-day delivery.

Be sure to visit the NALC’s 5-Day Is the Wrong Way website.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on August 25, 2010 (boomark / email).