{"id":28440,"date":"2020-04-01T10:32:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=28440"},"modified":"2020-04-01T10:44:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:44:55","slug":"sanders-launches-inquiry-into-postal-worker-protections-against-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/04\/01\/sanders-launches-inquiry-into-postal-worker-protections-against-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders Launches Inquiry into Postal Worker Protections Against Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><time class=\"dateline\" style=\"margin: 16px 0px; display: block; color: #333333; font-family: 'DIN Next W01 Regular', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" datetime=\"2020-03-31\">Tuesday, March 31, 2020<\/time><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: #333333; font-family: 'DIN Next W01 Regular', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">BURLINGTON, March 31 \u2014 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/download\/usps-letter\">letter<\/a>\u00a0to Postmaster General Megan Brennan detailing troubling news reports of postal employees being urged to continue working while showing symptoms of COVID-19 illness. Postal workers also reported having to work without appropriate personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: #333333; font-family: 'DIN Next W01 Regular', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u201cIt is not an exaggeration to say that our men and women in the Postal Service, who were already performing one of the most important jobs in America, are now literally putting their own lives on the line to deliver the food, medicine, and essential supplies that hundreds of millions of Americans depend on every single day during this pandemic,\u201d said Sanders. \u201cThe Postal Service leadership must do everything in its power to protect these heroes by immediately distributing protective gear, implementing strong workplace safety policies, and making sick leave easily available,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cI will look forward to hearing from the Postal Service\u2019s leadership on what progress they have made on this absolutely urgent matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: #333333; font-family: 'DIN Next W01 Regular', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Sanders\u2019 letter urges responses by April 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0regarding concrete steps the United States Postal Service is taking to protect both its employees and customers from the spread of COVID-19. According to\u00a0<i>Nation\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/post-office-coronavirus\/\">investigation<\/a>, at least 85 postal employees were suspected of having COVID-19, while postal worker Rakkhon Kim, a 50-year-old mail carrier in the Bronx, passed away due to complications related to Covid-19. The oversight letter was endorsed by the American Postal Workers Union.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: #333333; font-family: 'DIN Next W01 Regular', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Read the letter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/download\/usps-letter\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28412\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-and-USPS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-and-USPS.jpg 478w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-and-USPS-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-and-USPS-100x52.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 31, 2020 BURLINGTON, March 31 \u2014 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent a\u00a0letter\u00a0to Postmaster General Megan Brennan detailing troubling news reports of postal employees being urged to continue working while showing symptoms of COVID-19 illness. Postal workers also reported having to work without appropriate personal protective equipment. \u201cIt is not an exaggeration to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440","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=28440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28441,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions\/28441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}