{"id":10117,"date":"2015-02-20T08:35:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10117"},"modified":"2015-02-20T08:35:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:35:49","slug":"glover-trumka-join-apwu-in-pre-negotiation-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/02\/20\/glover-trumka-join-apwu-in-pre-negotiation-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Glover, Trumka, Join APWU in Pre-Negotiation Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">02\/19\/2015<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/PRESS%20CONFERENCE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nPresident Mark Dimondstein at the press conference.<\/h6>\n<p>Actor-activist Danny Glover and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined APWU President Mark Dimondstein in a pre-negotiation press conference at the Regency Hyatt on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come here as a citizen and a child of postal employees,\u201d Glover said, noting that he has been using the same San Francisco post office since he was 11 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worry that the post office won\u2019t be available for my grandson,\u201d he went on. \u201cIt\u2019s important for the public to be part of this discourse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trumka added, \u201cWe are here to lend our full support to our sisters and brothers in the APWU. Their success is our success. We will stand with you for as long as it takes to save our Postal Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dimondstein talked about two competing visions for the Postal Service. One is cutting and slashing post office hours and closing plants. The other is a \u201cvision of enhancing and expanding services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA post office that\u2019s vibrant and here for the future,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cWe are serious about the post office taking on financial services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glover said that although the economy is expanding, many Americans haven\u2019t felt any boost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur workers have been left out,\u201d he said. \u201cI stand here as a citizen first, who is concerned about the city, concerned about the nation and concerned about the world we live in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trumka also noted the \u201ccontinuous assault on working people for a number of years now,\u201d adding that the Postal Service is \u201ctotally ingrained in the fiber of our communities and our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uj_SKa9_6ng&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>to watch the press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02\/19\/2015\u00a0&#8211; President Mark Dimondstein at the press conference. Actor-activist Danny Glover and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined APWU President Mark Dimondstein in a pre-negotiation press conference at the Regency Hyatt on Capitol Hill. \u201cI come here as a citizen and a child of postal employees,\u201d Glover said, noting that he has been using the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10119,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions\/10119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}