NLRB Hearing: Testimony Addresses USPS Plans To Move Work from Public Post Offices to Staples

"...Tabbita’s testimony established that the USPS’s deal with Staples constituted contracting out of bargaining unit work. During Tabbita's testimony, the NLRB General Counsel introduced several documents that the Postal Service and Staples insisted were confidential and, for the second and third day in a row, the hearing was temporarily closed to the public while the documents were discussed ..."   
Source: www.apwu.org

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NLRB Files Complaint against USPS over Staples Deal

"...The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has filed a complaint charging that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) violated its collective bargaining agreement with the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and national labor laws when it joined a Staples shipping partner program last year. ..."   
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NLRB Charges Postal Service with Illegal Surveillance of Staples Protests

"... The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has charged the USPS with illegally spying on postal employees while they protested outside a Staples store in Atlanta on March 4 and 9, 2014. “Respondent has been interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed” in Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act and the Postal Reorganization Act, the board charged in a complaint issued Dec. 9. A hearing on the complaint will be held on March 11, 2015. The complaint stems from charges made by the APWU that the Postal Service dispatched managers posing as..."   
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Postal Service / 'Staples' store announcement is a ruse, says Dimondstein

“This attempt at trickery shows that the ‘Don’t Buy Staples’ movement is having an effect.”

"...A Staples announcement on July 14 indicating that the company is terminating its no-bid deal with the U.S. Postal Service and replacing it with an “approved shipper” program is a ruse. Staples and the USPS are changing the name of the program, without addressing the fundamental concerns of postal workers and postal customers. ..."   
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PMG Donahoe said privatization “would be a crazy idea..." as he gives postal jobs to Staples' stores

Staples’ selling postal products without USPS workers stirs fears of privatization

"... Donahoe said privatization “would be a crazy idea. I think the Postal Service as structured is a great service provider. . . . Why would we ever put anything like that at risk?”..."   
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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Postal Privatization: Retail Partner Expansion Program; Post Offices in Staples stores

The next chapter in postal privatization: Post Offices inside of Staples

"...The Postal Service has rather quietly announced a pilot program to put post offices inside of Staples. It’s part of what the USPS is calling the Retail Partner Expansion Program, and the first Staples to host a post office will be located in San Francisco and San Jose. ..."  
Source: www.savethepostoffice.com

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