{"id":8283,"date":"2014-08-20T08:24:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T13:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8283"},"modified":"2014-08-20T08:24:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T13:24:42","slug":"apwu-postal-workers-teachers-turn-up-the-heat-on-staples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/08\/20\/apwu-postal-workers-teachers-turn-up-the-heat-on-staples\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: Postal Workers, Teachers Turn Up the Heat on Staples"},"content":{"rendered":"
Boycott Goes to Boston as Retailer Releases 2nd Quarter Results<\/div>\n

Postal Workers, Teachers Turn Up the Heat on Staples<\/h1>\n
Workers to Pass Out Rulers Stamped \u2018Don\u2019t Buy School Supplies at Staples\u2019<\/div>\n

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08\/18\/2014<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>–\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The \u2018Don\u2019t Buy Staples\u2019 campaign will go to the Boston area \u2013 home of the troubled retailer \u2013 with two events on Wednesday, Aug. 20, the same day the company will release its second quarter results.<\/p>\n

AM Event, Boston<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who:\u00a0<\/strong>APWU members and supporters
What:\u00a0<\/strong>Protest against outsourcing of U.S. Postal Service work to Staples,\u00a0Postal Workers and supporters to pass out \u2018Don\u2019t Buy School Supplies at Staples’<\/em>\u00a0rulers
When:\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday, Aug. 20 at 10 a.m.
Where:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Staples at One Washington Mall, Downtown Boston\u00a0(Adjacent to City Hall Plaza, one block from Faneuil Hall)<\/p>\n

PM Event, Saugus, MA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who:\u00a0<\/strong>Members of Lynn Teachers Union, APWU members and supporters
What:\u00a0<\/strong>Protest against outsourcing of U.S. Postal Service work to Staples
When:\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday, Aug. 20 at 5:30 p.m.
Where:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Staples store at 444 Broadway, Saugus, MA<\/p>\n

In addition to the events listed above, a large rally featuring postal workers and supporters is planned for Wednesday, Aug. 27, on the steps of City Hall plaza. The location is just one block away from the Staples Washington Mall store.<\/p>\n

Since January, APWU members and supporters have staged hundreds of protests around the country in front of the office-supply outlets over the retailer\u2019s no-bid deal with the U.S. Postal Service that established knock-off post offices in Staples stores. \"stop-staples\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOutsourcing postal work to Staples is one of the most ill-conceived ideas the Postal Service has come up with \u2013 and that\u2019s saying a lot,\u201d said John Dirzius, Northeast Region Coordinator for the APWU. \u201cConsumers don\u2019t want to turn over their mail to low-paid, barely-trained workers in an unsecured setting. And postal workers don\u2019t want to turn over our jobs to a private company that\u2019s closing stores left and right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Staples, facing declining sales and revenue, has announced plans to close 225 stores by the end of 2015. \u201cThe Post Office is a public asset, and we\u2019re here to provide a public service \u2013 not a backdoor bailout to a struggling private company,\u201d said Bob Dempsey, Vice President of the APWU\u2019s Boston Metro Local. \u201cIf it is allowed to continue, this program will lead to the closing of neighborhood post offices.\u201d<\/p>\n

USPS and Staples are clearly feeling pressure from the Stop Staples campaign. In July, they announced that they were changing the name of their partnership. However, the USPS has\u00a0<\/span>acknowledged<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>that the newly-renamed program is essentially the same as the old one.<\/p>\n

Also in July, both national teacher unions \u2013 the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers \u2013 passed resolutions in support of the Stop Staples campaign, and 2,000 teachers and other AFT supporters protested at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. School supplies are a key market for Staples, accounting for up to one-third of the company\u2019s sales, according to some estimates.<\/p>\n

For more information about the campaign to stand up for quality service and good-paying jobs, visit\u00a0<\/span>Stop Staples.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Boycott Goes to Boston as Retailer Releases 2nd Quarter Results Postal Workers, Teachers Turn Up the Heat on Staples Workers to Pass Out Rulers Stamped \u2018Don\u2019t Buy School Supplies at Staples\u2019   08\/18\/2014\u00a0–\u00a0The \u2018Don\u2019t Buy Staples\u2019 campaign will go to the Boston area \u2013 home of the troubled retailer \u2013 with two events on Wednesday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8283","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\/8283","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=8283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8284,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283\/revisions\/8284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}