{"id":8534,"date":"2014-09-26T08:48:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T13:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2014-09-26T08:48:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T13:48:25","slug":"michigan-democratic-party-endorses-staples-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/09\/26\/michigan-democratic-party-endorses-staples-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Democratic Party Endorses Staples Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"node-title\">Michigan Democratic Party Endorses Staples Boycott<\/h1>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-article-deck field-type-text field-label-hidden field-wrapper\">Urges Candidates to Avoid the Office-Supply Store<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">09\/25\/2014<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The Michigan Democratic Party voted to support the Staples boycott at a special meeting of the Executive Committee on Sept. 23 and urged all candidates for public office to avoid patronizing the office-supply chain. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7249\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\" alt=\"1aa-APWU-small\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/resource-files\/Staples%20MI%20Dem%20Boycott%20Res.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">resolution<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>declares that the Democratic Party supports good jobs and public employees. Postal counters in Staples stores are not staffed by union postal workers, the resolution notes, but rather by low-wage Staples employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe expansion of this program will lead to the elimination of good union jobs that contribute to the economy of every community in the country, at the same time as it will harm customer service,\u201d the resolution says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">APWU President Mark Dimondstein praised the resolution. \u201cWe will be working to win more resolutions of support for the boycott in the weeks and months ahead,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we hope that candidates for public office will embrace the \u2018Don\u2019t Buy Staples\u2019 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/web-news-article\/michigan-democratic-party-endorses-staples-boycott#sthash.X6cLtEty.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Democratic Party Endorses Staples Boycott Urges Candidates to Avoid the Office-Supply Store 09\/25\/2014\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The Michigan Democratic Party voted to support the Staples boycott at a special meeting of the Executive Committee on Sept. 23 and urged all candidates for public office to avoid patronizing the office-supply chain. The\u00a0resolution\u00a0declares that the Democratic Party supports good jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8534","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\/8534","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=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions\/8535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}