Four Postal Unions Form Alliance
to Defend the Public Postal Service - March 2014
A Proclamation
Postal Union Alliance
The U.S.
Postal Service is under
unprecedented attack.
A congressionally manufactured financial crisis drains the USPS of vital resources.
Six-day delivery is under constant threat of elimination. The reduction of service standards and the elimination of half of the nation's mail processing centers has slowed service and wiped out tens of thousands of good jobs.
Post offices in cities and small towns are being sold or closed or having their hours cut back. Corporate privatizers seek to gain control over larger segments of postal operations-and to get their hands on the Postal Service's $65 billion of annual revenue.
The Postmaster General's policies of subcontracting and degrading service are fueling the privatization drive.
A congressionally manufactured financial crisis drains the USPS of vital resources.
Six-day delivery is under constant threat of elimination. The reduction of service standards and the elimination of half of the nation's mail processing centers has slowed service and wiped out tens of thousands of good jobs.
Post offices in cities and small towns are being sold or closed or having their hours cut back. Corporate privatizers seek to gain control over larger segments of postal operations-and to get their hands on the Postal Service's $65 billion of annual revenue.
The Postmaster General's policies of subcontracting and degrading service are fueling the privatization drive.
The four postal unions stand together to end the attack.
We stand for a public
Postal Service,
enhancement and expansion of service, and protection of good union jobs in our
communities. We stand with the people of our country in defense of their right
to a universal postal service operated in the public interest.
We commit to work together to:
• Maintain six-day and home delivery.
• Protect and restore service standards and mail
processing facilities.
• Maintain full-time, full-service public post
offices in every community.
• Oppose the subcontracting of work and privatization
of services.
• Expand postal services to include basic banking,
notary, check-cashing and other services.
• End the corporate welfare of excessive pre-sort
discounts.
• Form a common front in the fight for genuine postal
reform legislation
.• Organize joint actions and speak in a united
voice.
• Unite with other labor unions in defense of the
rights of postal workers and all workers.
• Encourage joint efforts of our union members at the
local level.
• Support maximum cooperation in the next round of
contract negotiations.
• Build an alliance with the American people in
defense of the public postal service.
We
Stand United to Protect America's Postal
Service
Fredric Rolando, President, National Association of
Letter Carriers
Mark Dimonstein, President, American Postal Workers
Union
John Hegarty, President, National Postal Mail
Handlers Union
Jeanette Dwyer, President, National Rural Letter
Carriers Association
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