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Postal employees fight replacement by contractors

Unionized postal employees are gearing up for a legal fight against what they consider an existential threat—a Postal Service proposal to contract out all Postal Vehicle Service operations in California.

“We are pursuing every avenue to protect our members’ jobs,” Motor Vehicle Craft Director Bob Pritchard for the American Postal Workers Union said in a statement. “We will do everything we can to prevent the Postal Service from proceeding with this assault on postal drivers.”

Postal management’s plan would eliminate 840 truck driver positions, out of 6,900 nationwide. The union has filed for an injunction with the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., seeking to prevent the plan from going into effect.

“Management’s plan violates our Collective Bargaining Agreement and will cause hardship for the drivers whose jobs would be eliminated,” said APWU President Cliff Guffey. “If it is implemented, it also will damage the Postal Service.”

A hearing has been scheduled for Nov. 9 to hear arguments in the case.

The union is also pursuing arbitration to resolve the matter, and arbitration is scheduled for Nov. 27 and 28.


 

Reader comments

Wed, Nov 28, 2012 Keith DC

Tim - KY - When did the Postal Service get bailed out by tax payers? Evidently you are looking at news media the rest of the world is not privy to. The USPS has not been bailed out by the Feds. If anything the USPS financially supports the Feds by paying all of its profits to the Health Retirment Fund that, by the way, the Feds don't want to release to keep the USPS sustainable. Let us all know why the USPS pays Billions into a fund that is supposed to benefit the USPS if it is not used for FED gain. IF you can not answer these questions, then maybe you need to stop looking at Alien News and come back to earth and deal with the truth.

Mon, Nov 26, 2012 Morris

I am not a postal employee but I am an admirer of the U.S. Postal Service. I have lived and traveled in several countries and have never enjoyed the same caliber of service in any country that we enjoy here in the United States. In comparison the Posts in other countries, the U.S. Postal Service is vastly more professional, efficient, and inexpensive. We should applaud the service they provide and assist them in whatever way possible to continue their mission.

Fri, Nov 16, 2012 Tim KY

Doug -You must not read the news much, the USPS has been bailed out by taxpayers to the tune of BILLIONS over the last several years. Yes the taxpayer is a stakeholder, and as a taxpayer, I say shut it down - go privatized (not govt subsidized and gauranteed). If they want to be a business, let them be a business! We'll still get our mail either way, and if it costs more, so be it; I seldom utilize regular mail for anything since the invent of the internet anyway, I only get junk mail. Junk mail is like a drug for the USPS, they need more, more, more to keep going - the junkies need help!

Fri, Nov 2, 2012 Doug Ohio

In response to the comment from Denver, the taxpayers are not the stakeholders in the USPS. The USPS has not taken tax money for over 25 years and has relied solely on money raised from postage to operate.

Fri, Nov 2, 2012

To Denver NO TAX PAYER MONEY is used for the USPS> we make our money like any other company from the goods and services provided. Congress is actually holding the purse strings as most of the profits we make go to the federal govt. Also unlike any other company we can not do as we need or please to stay above water like UPS and FEDEX. when gas goes up so do there prices, not USPS if UPS and FEDEX want to raise prices they do, USPS has to jump through more hoops than a circus dog.

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