{"id":12024,"date":"2015-08-18T07:20:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12024"},"modified":"2015-08-18T07:20:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T12:20:29","slug":"baltimore-teacher-boycott-staples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/08\/18\/baltimore-teacher-boycott-staples\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Teacher: &#8216;Boycott Staples!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\"><strong>APWU News 8\/17\/15<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/content-images\/Teacher%20york%20road.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption>Myles Hoenig\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Baltimore teacher took it upon himself to make a \u201cBoycott Staples\u201d sign and protest in front of the York Road location on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was out there in solidarity with postal workers who are seeing their jobs transferred to for-profit corporations,\u201d explained Myles Hoenig, who is also a member of the National Education Association and the Green Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Postal Service was established at the time of the American Revolution. It was never designed to turn a profit,\u201d he said. \u201cAs a teacher and a union member, I wanted to support fellow unionists who are being deprived of their livelihoods, as well as a degradation of the Postal Service when put in the hands of untrained individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Hoenig said he is also going to organize fellow teachers and Green Party members to join the next<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Stop Staples<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>campaign action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU News 8\/17\/15 Myles Hoenig\u00a0 A Baltimore teacher took it upon himself to make a \u201cBoycott Staples\u201d sign and protest in front of the York Road location on Aug. 15. \u201cI was out there in solidarity with postal workers who are seeing their jobs transferred to for-profit corporations,\u201d explained Myles Hoenig, who is also a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12024","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\/12024","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=12024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12026,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions\/12026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}