Last month, United States Postal Service (USPS) letter carriers overwhelmingly rejected a provocative tentative agreement, which included mere 1.3 percent annual “raises” for workers. The contract would have facilitated massive cuts and consolidation under the “Delivering for America” program, including slashing tens of thousands of USPS jobs and closing over 1,000 post offices around the country.
Amid this show of anger by postal workers, reporters from the World Socialist Web Site spoke to city carriers in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday about their thoughts on the contract and the way forward. They distributed copies of the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee statement, “After the NALC contract rejection: Organize the working class to save the US Postal Service!” was distributed.
Names have been changed to protect workers’ anonymity.
