{"id":7042,"date":"2014-02-19T16:14:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2014-02-19T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:14:03","slug":"postal-workers-protest-rep-issa-at-nh-gop-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/02\/19\/postal-workers-protest-rep-issa-at-nh-gop-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Workers Protest Rep. Issa at NH GOP Fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 150 union members braved sub-zero degree winds on Feb. 17 to deliver an icy greeting to U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, the author of legislation (H.R. 2748) that would lead to the demise of the Postal Service. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/issa-protest.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7043\" alt=\"issa-protest\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/issa-protest.gif\" width=\"240\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Issa (R-CA) was in New Hampshire to deliver the keynote speech to Republican donors at the New Hampshire GOP\u2019s President\u2019s Day fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>Chanting \u201cthe U.S. Postal Service is not for sale,\u201d more than 150 members of the APWU and other postal unions picketed Issa\u2019s appearance at Grappone Convention Center in Concord. They were joined by union teachers, carpenters, members of the Alliance for Retired Americans, and other labor and civic activists.<\/p>\n<p>APWU members traveled from all across New England to participate, and the big turnout made the rally \u201ca huge success,\u201dsaid Manchester Area Local President Dana Coletti.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great to see so many APWU people turn out despite the weather,\u201d he said \u201cand to see so many others join us in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had enough participation,\u201d he added \u201cthat were able to create a second picket line to cover another entrance to the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 150 union members braved sub-zero degree winds on Feb. 17 to deliver an icy greeting to U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, the author of legislation (H.R. 2748) that would lead to the demise of the Postal Service. Issa (R-CA) was in New Hampshire to deliver the keynote speech to Republican donors at the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7042","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\/7042","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=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7044,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions\/7044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}