{"id":8688,"date":"2014-10-15T08:24:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2014-10-15T08:24:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:24:40","slug":"duluth-rallies-against-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/10\/15\/duluth-rallies-against-consolidation\/","title":{"rendered":"Duluth Rallies Against Consolidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">APWU &#8211; 10\/15\/2014<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0A group of about 200 impassioned postal workers, elected officials, and community members rallied on Oct. 6, on the steps of the Federal Building in Duluth, MI, to save the city\u2019s mail processing center. <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>Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, Duluth Mayor Don Ness, and Rep. Rick Nolan (D) joined the protesters; and petitions with over 157,300 signatures were presented to Rep. Nolan. Curt Waite, a Duluth plant worker, told the crowd, \u201cThis is ludicrous and unnecessary!\u00a0 It is about the service and not just saving jobs. For years, our focus has been getting the mail out on time but now management wants to delay mail!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The USPS plan calls for shuttering four small distribution centers in Minnesota and consolidating them in St. Paul. The same strategy is being rolled out elsewhere in the country. It\u2019s a \u201cmindless business strategy,\u201d said National Association of Letter Carriers Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Nicole Ryan<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Dayton chastised the Postal Service for considering a plan that he deemed \u201cnonsensical.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t really understand this theory that if you\u2019re having a competitive challenge, you improve your situation by making your services worse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">The rally took place in conjunction with the MN NALC State Convention in Duluth, and numerous other unions participated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU &#8211; 10\/15\/2014\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0A group of about 200 impassioned postal workers, elected officials, and community members rallied on Oct. 6, on the steps of the Federal Building in Duluth, MI, to save the city\u2019s mail processing center. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, Duluth Mayor Don Ness, and Rep. Rick Nolan (D) joined the protesters; and petitions with [&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-8688","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\/8688","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=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8689,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions\/8689"}],"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=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}