{"id":17055,"date":"2016-11-18T10:08:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=17055"},"modified":"2016-11-18T10:08:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:08:32","slug":"in-stinging-rebuke-nlrb-rules-usps-staples-deal-violated-federal-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/11\/18\/in-stinging-rebuke-nlrb-rules-usps-staples-deal-violated-federal-law\/","title":{"rendered":"In stinging rebuke, NLRB rules USPS-Staples deal violated Federal law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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APWU News – 11\/17\/2016<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>–\u00a0<\/span><\/span>On November 8, 2016, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Administrative Law Judge Paul Bogas ruled to uphold all of the charges leveled at the United States Postal Service\u2019s (USPS) Staples\u00a0<\/span>Approved Shipper<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>program. The APWU initially filed the complaint on November 13, 2014<\/p>\n

The judge ruled the Staples deal was subcontracting within the meaning of Article 32 of the APWU\/USPS Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). The ruling stated USPS illegally and intentionally ignored its legal obligation under the NLRA to bargain with the APWU over the Staples deal and its effects on members of the union.<\/p>\n

A cited internal Postal Service report, dated September 12, 2012, made it clear that the goal of the expansion of it\u2019s \u201cretail partnerships\u201d was about \u201cmigrating [the] majority of volume to retail partners (new & existing).\u201d The judge found the USPS failed to inform the union of this report \u201cat any time prior to it being subpoenaed in this litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear from the Postal Service\u2019s own documents and testimony the real goal for their \u2018Retail Partnership\u2019 program was to eliminate APWU members\u2019 jobs and to close Post Offices,\u201d said President Dimondstein.\"stop-staples\"<\/p>\n

Voluminous additional evidence was cited proving postal management hid their true intent, the privatization of postal retail operations, from the union. One document noted a USPS consultant\u2019s question to Brian Code, then head of the USPS retail partnership program. The consultant asked whether they will \u201cdecrease [bargaining unit clerks] and will have to shut down P[ost] O[ffice]s to finance the program.\u201d Cole replied, \u201cYou are right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear we were right to challenge the Staples deal,\u201d Dimondstein explained. \u201cIt was the correct decision to mobilize our members and initiate the Stop Staples campaign and boycott. The campaign continues to be a key part of the battle to maintain the public Postal Service from management\u2019s privatization scheme.<\/p>\n

Among other remedies, the decision went on to instruct USPS to \u201cdiscontinue its retail partnership with Staples<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Postal Service will probably appeal this decision, but we call on them to do the right thing and immediately end the Staples dirty deal,\u201d Dimondstein said. \u201cIn the meantime, the Stop Staples campaign and boycott continues full speed ahead! The U.S. Mail is not for sale!\u201d<\/p>\n

We will continue to post updates to apwu.org as this situation develops. To read the judge\u2019s decision click on the “attachment” below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"\u00a0<\/span>NLRB Decision<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(287.72 KB)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APWU News – 11\/17\/2016\u00a0–\u00a0On November 8, 2016, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Administrative Law Judge Paul Bogas ruled to uphold all of the charges leveled at the United States Postal Service\u2019s (USPS) Staples\u00a0Approved Shipper\u00a0program. The APWU initially filed the complaint on November 13, 2014 The judge ruled the Staples deal was subcontracting within the meaning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17055","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\/17055","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=17055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17056,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055\/revisions\/17056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}