{"id":9073,"date":"2014-11-14T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9073"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:30:42","slug":"statement-by-apwu-president-mark-dimondstein-regarding-pmgs-retirement-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/11\/14\/statement-by-apwu-president-mark-dimondstein-regarding-pmgs-retirement-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by APWU President Mark Dimondstein Regarding PMG&#8217;s Retirement Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">11\/14\/2014<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Today\u2019s announcement that Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is stepping down is welcome news. Over the summer, delegates to the American Postal Workers Union national convention voted unanimously for his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that the next Postmaster General will reverse Donahoe\u2019s policies of lowering standards, reducing hours, outsourcing work and diminishing a great American institution.<\/p>\n<p>We call on USPS\u2019 Board of Governors to immediately freeze Donahoe\u2019s policies and to do no more harm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/14\/2014\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Today\u2019s announcement that Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is stepping down is welcome news. Over the summer, delegates to the American Postal Workers Union national convention voted unanimously for his resignation. We hope that the next Postmaster General will reverse Donahoe\u2019s policies of lowering standards, reducing hours, outsourcing work and diminishing a great American institution. We [&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-9073","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\/9073","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=9073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9074,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073\/revisions\/9074"}],"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=9073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}