By The PA. AFL-CIO

– American Postal Workers Union (APWU) President Mark Dimondstein welcomed today’s news that Postmaster General Donahue is stepping down as the Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service. The announcement was sudden and on the day that thousands of union workers who deliver the mail to homes and businesses each day are holding massive rallies across the United States to draw public attention to the latest plans proposed by Donahoe that would severely curtail postal services and permanently damage the U.S. Postal Service. President Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Snyder participated in the National Day of Action held in Pittsburgh today. Postal Workers also held actions in Philadelphia, Erie, Moosic and Swarthmore as part of 150 actions held in cities and towns across the nation.

APWU President Dimondstein on behalf of his members expressed hopes that next Postmaster General would reverse Donahoe’s policies of lowering standards, reducing hours, outsourcing work and diminishing a great American institution that has delivered the mail for generations.

We join in urging the USPS’s Board of Governors to immediately freeze Donahoe’s policies and to do no harm.

Source: http://www.paaflcio.org/?p=5645