DETROIT (FOX 2) – Fiery speakers made their voices heard in Detroit where members of the American Postal Workers Union rallied for a better contract.
From energized speeches by Motown Diva Lynn Marie Smith to others from the APWU, their goal was to made it known: they’re essential workers.
“There is not a single piece of mail that gets into anybody’s mailbox with you, without the APWU,” one speaker said.
The union represents 200,000 workers across the country. Postal workers from Puerto Rico even showed up in big numbers at the convention.
“We’re here organizing, letting the people know that we’re ready to fight,” said Sammy Hernandez, with APWU Caribbean region. “The postal service hires the most amount of veterans in the entire nation, so we are the postal service, the employees are the postal service, not the few people that work in headquarters.”
