{"id":7978,"date":"2014-07-07T15:21:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T20:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7978"},"modified":"2014-07-07T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T20:21:34","slug":"afscme-unite-here-join-dont-buy-staples-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/07\/07\/afscme-unite-here-join-dont-buy-staples-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"AFSCME, UNITE HERE Join \u2018Don\u2019t Buy Staples\u2019 Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>APWU News &#8211; July 07, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Don\u2019t Buy Staples\u2019 campaign got another big boost on July 2, when the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) endorsed the boycott. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/AFSCME.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7979\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/AFSCME.gif\" alt=\"AFSCME\" width=\"241\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are asking our members, friends, family members and colleagues to take their business elsewhere,\u201d AFSCME President Lee Saunders and Secretary-Treasurer Laura Reyes\u00a0wrote [PDF]\u00a0to Staples CEO Ronald L. Sargent. AFSCME represents 1.6 million active and retired public-sector workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are taking this action because of our concern about Staples\u2019 no-bid deal with the U.S. Postal Service, which established postal counters in more than 80 Staples stores \u2013 staffed with Staples employees rather than with employees of the Postal Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter pointed out that while AFSCME has, in the past, done a substantial amount of business with Staples, they object, \u201cto short-sighted business arrangements that replace good, living-wage jobs with high-turnover, low-wage jobs, as the USPS \u2013 Staples deal does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on you to either arrange with USPS to have USPS employees staff the postal counters in your stores \u2013 or, discontinue the program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNITE HERE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At its national convention on July 3, UNITE HERE passed a resolution endorsing the boycott of Staples and declared its support for postal workers. UNITE HERE\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/unite-here.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7980\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/unite-here.gif\" alt=\"unite-here\" width=\"187\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a>represents 270,000 U.S. and Canadian workers in the hotel, gaming, food service, manufacturing, textile, distribution, laundry, transportation, and airport industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU News &#8211; July 07, 2014 The \u2018Don\u2019t Buy Staples\u2019 campaign got another big boost on July 2, when the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) endorsed the boycott. \u201cWe are asking our members, friends, family members and colleagues to take their business elsewhere,\u201d AFSCME President Lee Saunders and Secretary-Treasurer Laura Reyes\u00a0wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978","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=7978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7981,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions\/7981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}