{"id":36565,"date":"2024-10-19T09:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=36565"},"modified":"2024-10-19T09:05:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T14:05:02","slug":"postal-employees-say-theyre-working-in-a-combat-zone-demand-better-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/10\/19\/postal-employees-say-theyre-working-in-a-combat-zone-demand-better-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal employees say they\u2019re working in a combat zone – demand better safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

PEN: What do YOU recommend USPS do? What can they do to help with the attacks on employees? It’s obviously happening all across the nation – in large and small cities. It is impossible to hire enough guards to follow all letter carriers.\u00a0 Let us know in the comments below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

By: Glenn Minnis, Illinois Radio Network<\/a> – October 19, 2024 – Feeling targeted and under attack, Chicago-area postal workers rallied downtown to call greater attention to what they insist are increasingly unsafe work conditions.<\/p>\n

With the busiest part of their year just around the corner, National Association of Letter Carriers Chicago Branch 11 President Elise Foster said she\u2019s never seen morale among workers any lower than where it now stands.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like nothing is being done,\u201d Foster told The Center Square. \u201cThey could at least like pair people up on a route, get extra police patrolling in that area or if they have to stop the mail to let the people know that we can\u2019t continue to keep going down this block where multiple carriers keep getting robbed. We want more prosecutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The protest comes just days after police charged a 15-year-old with the broad-daylight slaying of mail carrier Octavia Redmond back in July as she made the rounds on her South Side route.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just don\u2019t see where management is doing anything to try to show the letter carriers that we\u2019re trying to do something,\u201d Foster added. \u201cYou know, just giving us lip service when we want to see action. We\u2019re working in a combat zone. In this whole city, anything could break out at any given time and we don\u2019t have any protection out there or no means of how we\u2019re going to get to safety.\u201d Reaad more at WGIL<\/a><\/p>\n

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PEN: What do YOU recommend USPS do? What can they do to help with the attacks on employees? It’s obviously happening all across the nation – in large and small cities. It is impossible to hire enough guards to follow all letter carriers.\u00a0 Let us know in the comments below. By: Glenn Minnis, Illinois Radio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36565","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\/36565","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=36565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36566,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36565\/revisions\/36566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}