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