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Showing posts with label Staples' stores. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Staples' stores. Show all posts

12.12.2014

NLRB Charges Postal Service with Illegal Surveillance of Staples Protests

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..."   
Source: www.apwu.org

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7.17.2014

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. ..."   
Source: www.apwu.org

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1.22.2014

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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