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Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Unions back Biden’s Postal Board nominees April 23, 2021 10:53 AM CDT By PAI From left, nominees for Postal Service Governors Anton Hajjar, Amber McReynolds and Ronald Stroman, are sworn in at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Thursday. A...

For Democrats starving for a villain in post-Trump Washington, Louis DeJoy seemed like an ideal candidate for the role. As postmaster general, he’s the most powerful holdover from the previous administration—a Trump campaign donor and logistics executive hired to run the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service. When DeJoy moved last summer to slow the mail, his critics charged that he was carrying out a Trump plot to help steal the presidential election and degrade a beloved American institut...

TRADE unions in the United States have called a national day of action this week to push senators to pass the Protect the Right to Organise (Pro) Act. Union confederation the AFL-CIO named Thursday as the day when activities in support of the Act will be held nationwide. The legislation, which has been passed by the House of Representatives, would expand the definition of employees to extend workplace rights to more workers, legalise solidarity industrial action and ban employers from resorting...

Fewer than half of states are giving vaccine access to U.S. Postal Service workers. Postal workers must navigate a patchwork of policies to determine whether they can get a shot.Credit...Joshua Bright for The New York Times By Cierra S. Queen, Benjamin Guggenheim and Danielle Ivory March 14, 2021 Beleaguered in the pandemic and thrust into the spotlight by the 2020 election, the United States Postal Service now finds itself competing for its share of the vaccine. The Postal Service has endured...

USPS’s DeJoy Gives Himself an “A” and Asks for More Funds to Further Slow Mail U.S. Postal Service Postmaster General Louis DeJoy departs following a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 24, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Al Drago / Getty Images Handing congressional Democrats additional reasons to demand his removal, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Thursday asked House appropriators for more money to implement his forthcoming plan to further slow...

The House of Representatives held a hearing recently titled “Legislative Proposals to Put the Postal Service on Sustainable Financial Footing.” Democrats proposed bailing out the United States Postal Service (USPS)

comments This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely. Handing congressional Democrats additional reasons to demand his removal, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Thursday asked House appropriators for more money to implement his forthcoming plan to further slow mail delivery and gave himself an "A" grade for his performance thus far at the U.S. Postal Service — a nearly ...

So Why Does South Korea Have It? Fri Mar 12, 2021 Remember when unions at least pretended to represent workers instead of putting out statements clearly written by social justice interns? The AFL-CIO joined the effort to kill what little checks and balances remain in the legislative system with its executive board demanding an end to the filibuster on the grounds that, "the filibuster. An artifact of Jim Crow. A creature of white supremacy." What does Jim Crow have to do with t...

Fact Check: Are Postal Workers Ineligible for the COVID-19 Vaccine? On 3/9/21 at 7:06 PM EST As states move past the first phases of the vaccine rollout, more people will become eligible. The Claim On social media, it was pointed out that one industry deemed "essential" for months cannot yet get the vaccine: the United States Postal Service. Twitter user @lavendernvelv pointed out that United States Postal Service (USPS) workers who "literally carried us through the pandemic" are still not elig...

A recent USPS report on quarterly performance shows a decrease in on-time deliveries for first class mail.  Two-day delivery has dropped by 10% compared to this time last year. Three- to five-day delivery performance fell by nearly 24%.   The Southern California division was the bright spot with the highest two-day performance in the country - 89.5% on time delivery.  Earlier this week, U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy admitted the numbers aren’t good right now while testifying to ...