Area Postal Workers Reveal Impact of Proposed Job Cuts
Monday, August 15, 2011
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)APWU Nation's Capital and Southern MD
Local President Dena Briscoe – were featured
in a Washington
Post story yesterday on the Postal
Service’s proposed job cuts. “Briscoe had
not yet completed her senior year at Ballou
High School when her stepfather drove her to
the local U.S. Postal Service office to take
the employment test,” wrote Krissah Thompson.
“He was a letter carrier. Her mother had
worked for the postal service, too, and her
younger brother was hired there.” “To get a
job at the postal service meant an entrée into
the middle class,” professor Harley Shaiken
told The Post. Postal Service proposals were
revealed last week that would permit the USPS
to layoff 120,000 employees and remove postal
workers from the Federal Employees Health
Benefits Program and from federal retirement
programs. “This is a clear attempt to
abrogate our contract and destroy postal
collective bargaining,” APWU President Cliff
Guffey said. “Crushing postal workers and
slashing service will not solve the Postal
Service’s financial crisis,” he added.
Photo courtesy The Washington
Post