{"id":5785,"date":"2013-02-07T16:48:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=5785"},"modified":"2013-02-07T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:48:04","slug":"postal-coalition-calls-for-national-day-of-action-in-the-spirit-of-the-1970-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2013\/02\/07\/postal-coalition-calls-for-national-day-of-action-in-the-spirit-of-the-1970-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal coalition calls for national day of action, in the spirit of the 1970 strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1-PEN-NEWS5.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5787\" title=\"1-PEN-NEWS\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1-PEN-NEWS5-300x168.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1-PEN-NEWS5-300x168.gif 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1-PEN-NEWS5.gif 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Postmaster General should be fired. The Congress needs to block these cuts and closures. The President should issue an executive order,\u201d said Jamie Partridge, a retired letter carrier and west coast organizer with Communities and Postal Workers United, in response to the announcement that Saturday delivery would end in August. The CPWU is calling for a national day of action, on March 17th, to save the postal service, opposing all closures, cuts and delay of mail.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting delivery to five days will eliminate 25,000 jobs, according to the National Association of Letter Carriers. The US Postal Service has already cut 168,000 jobs since 2006 and projects the out-sourcing of most postal trucking, closure of 30% of mail processing plants and hundreds of post offices by June, cutting another 100,000 jobs and slowing delivery standards .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not stand by as our beloved postal service is destroyed,\u201d said Tom Dodge, a postal truck driver and east coast CPWU organizer. \u201cWe urge all Americans who care about our constitutionally mandated postal service to organize dramatic actions on March 17th, the anniversary of the great postal strike of 1970. We must increase the pressure and turn up the heat on the decision makers.\u201d The CPWU, a grassroots network of coalitions in twenty cities, staged several sensational actions in the past year, including post office occupations, hunger strikes, marches and rallies. They are urging the postal unions to call for a \u201cMarch on Washington\u201d to save the postal service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot the internet, not private competition, not labor costs, not the recession \u2013 Congress is responsible for sending the postal service into a death spiral,\u201d said Partridge. \u201cCorporate interests, working through their friends in the legislative and executive branches, want to undermine the USPS, bust the unions then privatize it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to CPWU, a 2006 Congressional mandate, which forces the postal service to pre-fund retiree health benefits 75 years in advance, is bankrupting the service. Not only would the postal service have been profitable without the mandate, says CPWU, the USPS has also overpaid tens of billions into two pension funds. The activists are calling for the Postmaster General to reverse the cuts and closures and allow Congress to fix the finances by repealing the pre-fund mandate and refunding the pension surplus.<\/p>\n<p>Communities and Postal Workers United<br \/>\nwww.cpwunited.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Postmaster General should be fired. The Congress needs to block these cuts and closures. The President should issue an executive order,\u201d said Jamie Partridge, a retired letter carrier and west coast organizer with Communities and Postal Workers United, in response to the announcement that Saturday delivery would end in August. The CPWU is calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-new-bytes","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785","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=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5789,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions\/5789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}