Staples Action Line
The ‘Don’t Buy Staples’ campaign by postal worker unions got a significant boost May 30 when the national AFL-CIO announced its support of the boycott. The unions are fighting a U.S. Postal Service deal that privatizes postal jobs by turning over some retail postal service work to the office supply chain store. In the photo above, 70 protesters marched around the Staples store at Portland’s Cascade Station on May 18 chanting, “the U.S. Mail is not for sale.” In pilot openings last fall, 82 post offices were launched inside Staples stores with low-paid, nonunion, non-postal workers. None of the pilot stores are in Oregon. USPS plans to open post offices inside all 1,600 Staples stores nationwide beginning this September. Another rally and picket is slated for Friday, June 20, at 5 p.m. at the Staples store at 122nd and Northeast Glisan, Portland. Postal unions also encourage everyone to sign an online petition at www.StopStaples.com.
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