NALC Pickets USPS, April 16, 2007

April 16, 2007 picket of L'Enfant Plaza Postal Headquarters by the National Association of Letter Carriers concerning the contracting of letter carrier jobs to private contractors. Our local branch web site: www.nalc3825.com

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• NALC
• outsourcing
• picket
• contrating
• USPS
• letter
• carriers
• union

[hannityforpres]

Stupid union losers. If you think youre worth more, go work somewhere else. Just like the rest of us. Oh, wait, no one else will pay your fat benefits in the buisness world.

[ccmpg]

Do you WORK? You posted this at about 1 PM east, 10 AM west. Does your "business world" employer pay you to post on YouTube? No letter carrier in America has the time to do that while working. This video had nothing to do with being "worth more".  Did you watch it? Did you understand it?

[hannityforpres]

I work 60 hours a week. Am on the internet all day. Yeah, I'd like a shorter work week, but if I made a picket sign and marched around the building, Id get my ass fired.

[ccmpg]

This demonstration had nothing to do with a shorter work week. This wasn't about how long we may be forced to work (6 days, 60 hours a week). It was about the Postal Service plan to allow private companies to deliver the mail. Companies would bid on the right to deliver the mail and these companies would then hire whomever to have access to America's mail and Letter Carrier's jobs. I have a feeling that if your employer did that, you would think it worth fighting about.

[hannityforpres]

If we, the taxpayers, can have it done cheaper and still get it done, why not?

[ccmpg]

The only tax money received by the USPS is compensation for the mailing of Free matter for the blind, the mailing of election ballots by overseas citizens, providing state requested address information in child support cases and for the support of some rural post offices. The Postal Service has to ensure the sanctity and privacy of the mail. This can't be done by non-postal people, hired at minimum wage, who then have access to your personal information and who are in your neighborhood daily.

[kelleyseiler]

Contracting Carrier jobs will be the deathblow to the Postal Service. It will be the first cup of water of the waterfall that will follow. Stand strong Brothers and Sisters of the NALC!

[mordaceu]

Go NALC!!!

Stop contracting out postal jobs, it will ultimately, destroy the best postal system in the world.!

[MTHKITEBOARDS]

Just think if the us government owned a car company, oh wait they kind of do.

They would under cut all the real businesses and because there would be little competition things would get relaxed people would not care as much, things would get broken, phones would not be picked up, people would get payed more because the money comes from taxes, The cars would not be as good as they could because the money is coming in and always will. Competition Makes things

better for everyone!

[bertoradzio]

what you all don't understand (and by you all I mean the ppl who have never worked for the USPS) is that the USPS is one of the biggest bullies out there when it comes to pushing the ppl who do all the real work. In every other organization I've worked for the leadership never treated the employees so disrespectfully, no matter how bad things got, not even in the military...so imagine what these workers have to go through each day; multiply 'Full Metal Jacket' times 20 & thats a reg USPS workday

[ThePrimeSpotcom]

Hello brothers and sisters. Please search 90809 on youtube.

[bambam60m]

The NALC is the best run union in the USA. I'am so to be a member.