{"id":12006,"date":"2015-08-14T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T20:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12006"},"modified":"2015-08-14T15:02:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T20:02:01","slug":"video-union-protests-postal-workers-termination-for-being-on-active-military-duty-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/08\/14\/video-union-protests-postal-workers-termination-for-being-on-active-military-duty-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Union protests postal worker&#8217;s termination for being on active military duty too long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINGFIELD, Ore. &#8211; Members of the American Postal Workers Union protested outside of the Gateway Post Office Thursday in Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>Braden Pelky, the local president of the APWU, says that his friend and co-worker, who wishes to remain anonymous, was terminated after being on active military duty for too long.<\/p>\n<p>The anonymous postal worker is currently on active duty and serving stateside in the military. The man worked at the post office for 10 years, and has been on active duty for 8 of those years. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kval.com\/news\/local\/321832971.html?tab=video&amp;c=y\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kval.com\/news\/local\/321832971.html?embed\" width=\"475\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/employee-fired-active-duty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12007\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/employee-fired-active-duty.jpg\" alt=\"employee-fired-active-duty\" width=\"474\" height=\"296\" style=\"border: none;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/employee-fired-active-duty.jpg 474w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/employee-fired-active-duty-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINGFIELD, Ore. &#8211; Members of the American Postal Workers Union protested outside of the Gateway Post Office Thursday in Springfield. Braden Pelky, the local president of the APWU, says that his friend and co-worker, who wishes to remain anonymous, was terminated after being on active military duty for too long. The anonymous postal worker is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006","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=12006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12008,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006\/revisions\/12008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}