{"id":12924,"date":"2015-11-05T08:31:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T13:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12924"},"modified":"2015-11-05T08:31:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T13:31:38","slug":"apwu-nlrb-calls-interference-on-staples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/11\/05\/apwu-nlrb-calls-interference-on-staples\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: NLRB Calls Interference on Staples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">11\/04\/2015<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The APWU won an important<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/resource-files\/NLRB%20Vacates%20Order%20Allowing%20Staples%20to%20Intervene.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">legal victory on Nov. 4<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled unanimously that Staples cannot intervene in hearings on charges that the USPS illegally subcontracted work to the office-supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ruling is very significant,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7249\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\" alt=\"1aa-APWU-small\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Staples had been allowed to intervene, it could appeal rulings \u2013 independent of the Postal Service \u2013 and exponentially complicate the litigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Staples\u2019 deep pockets, they could have appealed the case all the way to the Supreme Court, even if the Postal Service chose not to,\u201d Dimondstein said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s long past time for the Postal Service to end its dirty deal with Staples and stop efforts to privatize retail operations,\u201d Dimondstein added.<\/p>\n<p>Administrative Law Judge Paul Bogas granted Staples\u2019 request to participate as a full party to the case when the hearings began in August, but the APWU and the NLRB General Counsel appealed the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe APWU deplores the ongoing collusion between the Postal Service and Staples to transfer the work of highly-trained USPS employees who are accountable to the people of the country to low-paid Staples employees,\u201d Dimondstein said at the time. \u00a0\u201cThis ploy enriches Staples executives while advancing the privatization of the public Postal Service,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The August hearings continued on Nov. 2 and 3, and were dominated by disputes over documents subpoenaed by the NLRB and the APWU.\u00a0 In response to subpoenas, the Postal Service provided the NLRB with more than 90,000 records and withheld thousands more it deemed confidential and\/or covered by attorney-client privilege. Thousands of documents were given to the union as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe APWU will continue to fight with everything we\u2019ve got in the legal arena,\u201d Dimondstein said.\u00a0 \u201cBut we also know that the best way to secure victory is to spread word of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Stop Staples<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>campaign and the boycott of Staples and Quill.com,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/04\/2015\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The APWU won an important\u00a0legal victory on Nov. 4\u00a0when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled unanimously that Staples cannot intervene in hearings on charges that the USPS illegally subcontracted work to the office-supply chain. \u201cThe ruling is very significant,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. If Staples had been allowed to intervene, it could appeal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924","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=12924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12925,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions\/12925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}