Workers for the US Postal Service (USPS) have been ordered to return to a previously flooded and filthy building in Irvington, New Jersey. Pictures of the building reviewed by the World Socialist Web Site show floors streaked with black grime, rusted metal, shaky lighting fixtures and a large puddle. The building smells like sewage, according to a worker who spoke under condition of anonymity. The building has been condemned, he added.
The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) approved management’s decision to make its members work in these flagrantly unsanitary and dangerous conditions. The union neither consulted with the Irvington postal workers beforehand nor provided them with any protective equipment. NALC’s actions reveal the bureaucracy’s open hostility to its own members and its complicity with management.
