By almost 3-to-1 margins, Postal Workers voting by mail re-elected their top two officers, President William Burrus and Secretary-Treasurer Terry R. Stapleton.
Final but unofficial results, announced in mid-October, saw Burrus garner 48,166 votes to 17,525 for challenger Leo F. Persails. Stapleton beat Peter Holter-Meltren, 45,536-18,113.
The mail ballot followed nominations for officer and executive board posts at APWU's late-August convention in Los Angeles. After, Burrus forecast a tough road. Besides bargaining a new contract, enforcement of the current pact, organizing and postal reform are on the agenda next year, he said.
"This presidential election will set the stage for the future of middle-class working America" and it tops them all, he warned in explaining APWU's endorsement of Democratic nominee Sen. John F. Kerry, rather than GOP nominee George W. Bush.
"The role of government in the relationship between capital and labor will be determined by choices made in 2004," Burrus says. He adds its outcome will determine "availability of jobs for this and future generations," workers' rights, wages and benefits, health care, job safety and Social Security.
"There is no hidden agenda. Kerry and Bush announced their policies and plans for the future and how they intend to use government to address the rights and expectations of working Americans. This election will determine the direction taken by middle-class America for the next 50 years."
By almost 3-to-1 margins, Postal Workers voting by mail re-elected their top two officers, President William Burrus and Secretary-Treasurer Terry R. Stapleton.
Final but unofficial results, announced in mid-October, saw Burrus garner 48,166 votes to 17,525 for challenger Leo F. Persails. Stapleton beat Peter Holter-Meltren, 45,536-18,113.
The mail ballot followed nominations for officer and executive board posts at APWU’s late-August convention in Los Angeles. After, Burrus forecast a tough road. Besides bargaining a new contract, enforcement of the current pact, organizing and postal reform are on the agenda next year, he said.
“This presidential election will set the stage for the future of middle-class working America” and it tops them all, he warned in explaining APWU’s endorsement of Democratic nominee Sen. John F. Kerry, rather than GOP nominee George W. Bush.
“The role of government in the relationship between capital and labor will be determined by choices made in 2004,” Burrus says. He adds its outcome will determine “availability of jobs for this and future generations,” workers’ rights, wages and benefits, health care, job safety and Social Security.
“There is no hidden agenda. Kerry and Bush announced their policies and plans for the future and how they intend to use government to address the rights and expectations of working Americans. This election will determine the direction taken by middle-class America for the next 50 years.”