For the past four years, the American Postal Workers Union has taken on the challenge of privatization by training rank and file postal workers to become organizers and sending them into communities where non-union workers are toiling for private sector contractors, earning wages and benefits well below union standards.
Mostly in the South, these workers, assisted by these rank-and-file organizers, have launched impressive and heroic organizing campaigns, including strikes, and they have won National Labor Relations Board elections and have negotiated first contracts.
On Thursday, Aug. 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Paul Labor Centre, 411 Mahoney St., the St. Paul Labor Speakers Club will host several APWU activists who will discuss their organizing efforts and their strategies for the future. They are in the Twin Cities for the union's national convention.
The title of the program is Organizing the Unorganized: Lessons from the Postal Workers' Experience. It is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Peter Rachleff at 651-696-6371 or rachleff@macalester.edu.
For the past four years, the American Postal Workers Union has taken on the challenge of privatization by training rank and file postal workers to become organizers and sending them into communities where non-union workers are toiling for private sector contractors, earning wages and benefits well below union standards.
Mostly in the South, these workers, assisted by these rank-and-file organizers, have launched impressive and heroic organizing campaigns, including strikes, and they have won National Labor Relations Board elections and have negotiated first contracts.
On Thursday, Aug. 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Paul Labor Centre, 411 Mahoney St., the St. Paul Labor Speakers Club will host several APWU activists who will discuss their organizing efforts and their strategies for the future. They are in the Twin Cities for the union’s national convention.
The title of the program is Organizing the Unorganized: Lessons from the Postal Workers’ Experience. It is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Peter Rachleff at 651-696-6371 or rachleff@macalester.edu.