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Cleveland-area USPS workers rally against tentative contract, citing low wages

WESTLAKE, Ohio — The post office on Center Ridge Road was closed for business on Sunday, but mail carriers used their only day off to deliver a message.

Just over a dozen United States Postal Service employees gathered at the Westlake post office with signs, and a bull horn to voice their disapproval of a tentative contract agreement reached in October between USPS and the National Associations of Letter Carriers, the union that represents mail carriers working in non-rural areas.

“It has taken us over 500 days to basically get a piece of crap agreement,” Lakewood-based mail carrier Leah Hudak told cleveland.com.

The Sunday afternoon rally in Westlake was among several held across the country in recent days by unhappy mail carriers, as they await their chance to vote on the proposed contract

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