Area Postal Workers Reveal Impact of Proposed Job Cuts

Monday, August 15, 2011

Area Postal Workers Reveal Impact of Proposed Job Cuts(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.
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