By The PA. AFL-CIO

– Dean Showers, President of USW Local 6996, took scissors to his Staples credit card at the PA AFL-CIO Community Services Institute last week to emphasize that the Staples Boycott is not over and won’t end until every replacement worker is gone from these stores and the APWU tells us that it is over.

Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer thanked the delegates for not shopping at staples. “They [Staples] are trying to fool people into thinking it’s over to try to recover their losses, but the boycott is not over and we can have a huge impact on their business during the “back to school” shopping season which Staples depends upon. We can show this low-wage retailer that privatization and driving down wages and living standards is bad for their business,” Snyder stated.

Workers in Pennsylvania and all over the country are uniting with APWU/AFL-CIO boycott against Staples, in reaction to their collaboration with the United States Postal Service to set up in-store kiosks. Staples refuses to staff their new counters with APWU workers—thus countless family-sustaining jobs will be replaced with low-wage Staples jobs.

Working families are having a huge impact and, over the next few months can really put a major dent in Staple’s bottom line. That is why they are trying to fool the public with false public announcements. The Boycott of Staples is not over and won’t end until they stop attacking good jobs and the safety and standards of the postal service.

“An attack on any worker is an attack on all workers. We will continue to stand with APWU in protest of Staples and USPS’s attempt to turn living-wage jobs into low-wage jobs,” President Bloomingdale added.

To learn more about the “Stop Staples” boycott, go to – http://www.apwu.org/issues/stop-staples

Source: http://www.paaflcio.org/?p=4323