{"id":8757,"date":"2014-10-22T15:52:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2014-10-22T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:52:24","slug":"apwu-to-harvard-president-stop-staples-deal-or-quit-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/10\/22\/apwu-to-harvard-president-stop-staples-deal-or-quit-board\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU to Harvard President: Stop Staples Deal or Quit Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The APWU has placed a\u00a0<\/span>full-page ad in\u00a0<\/span><\/a>The Harvard Crimson<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>calling on Harvard University President Drew Faust \u201cto do the right thing or resign.\u201d The right course of action, the ad says, is for Dr. Faust\u00a0to use her influence to end the no-bid deal Faust serves on the board of Staples, where she earns $300,000 per year.<\/p>\n

Staples is notorious for paying its employees poverty-level wages, the ad points out. A 2012 study by the National Employment Law Project listed Staples among the 50 largest low-wage employers in the country. Since 2007, Staples has paid roughly $80 million to settle more than a dozen class-action lawsuits alleging ‘wage theft.’<\/p>\n

Staples foray into the postal business will have serious repercussions: It will facilitate the transfer of stable, living-wage jobs to high-turnover, poverty-wage jobs; downgrade the quality of postal services, and hasten the privatization of the United States Postal Service, the ad says.<\/p>\n

“If Dr. Faust can’t use her influence to end this dirty deal, she should resign from the Staples board,” it concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The APWU has placed a\u00a0full-page ad in\u00a0The Harvard Crimson\u00a0calling on Harvard University President Drew Faust \u201cto do the right thing or resign.\u201d The right course of action, the ad says, is for Dr. Faust\u00a0to use her influence to end the no-bid deal Faust serves on the board of Staples, where she earns $300,000 per year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8757","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\/8757","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=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8759,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions\/8759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}