Postal workers call on Rolando to oppose Bloom, DeJoy

Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) reports the following:

Two hundred postal workers sent a letter to President Fred Rolando of the National Association of Letter Carriers, calling on him to join the Dump DeDoy, Bounce Bloom movement and “strongly urge the NALC Executive Board to take immediate concrete steps to mobilize the workforce and postal customers, and to convene a summit of all the postal unions and their supporters to turn the page on this grim chapter in our postal history. ”

Nov. 15, 2021

Dear President Fred Rolando, CC: NALC Executive Board, APWU Executive Board, NRLCA Executive Board, NPMHU Executive Board Since Louis DeJoy was sworn in as Postmaster General last June, the Postal Service has been under continuous attack. Severe mail delays, the scrapping of machinery, price hikes, and openly corrupt contracting have sabotaged the American people’s confidence in the service and undermined our democratic elections. Ignoring public outcry, congressional inquiry, the Office of the Inspector General and the Postal Regulatory Commission, DeJoy’s administration has pushed full-speed ahead with a devastating “10-Year Plan” that threatens rural communities, seniors, voters, union workers, veterans, and everyone who depends upon reliable mail service. DeJoy personally profits from the outsourcing of postal work to XPO logistics and other private competitors, while his co-conspirator, business partner, and sitting Chairman of the Postal Board of Governors, Ron Bloom, helped oversee the devastating privatization of the UK’s 500-year old Royal Mail. The writing is on the wall for our own treasured public post. ALL crafts are threatened by these attacks on the service. Pending speedups, proposed controls on wage growth and the destruction of sortation machinery spell cuts, overwork, insult and injury to the nearly 500,000 proud postal workers who move America’s mail. Direct outsourcing to privately-managed and staffed “surface transfer centers” threatens union jobs and mail security. And the effects on the mailing public at large will be no less damaging. Some crafts and communities will suffer from DeJoy’s policies more quickly or obviously than others. But an injury to one is an injury to ALL. Americans from all walks of life have raised their voices in protest against this assault. The Denver, Portland, and San Francisco locals of the National Association of Letter Carriers have all passed resolutions calling for DeJoy’s resignation or removal. They are joined by 77 public interest groups organized by the Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Save the Post Office Coalition who demand that Ron Bloom not be reappointed to the Postal Board of Governors. The unanimous decision of the National Presidents Conference of the American Postal Workers Union and the call by dozens of sitting House Representatives for DeJoy’s removal add to the chorus demanding a new direction at the Post Office. We must stand in solidarity alongside all the forces fighting to preserve a public postal service which delivers for the American people. As postal workers and retirees in the NALC, APWU, NRLCA, and NPMHU, as elected officers within our respective unions, as community leaders, as allies and public supporters of the postal service, we urge the national postal unions openly take up the call to remove DeJoy from his position, oppose Ron Bloom’s reappointment to the Board of Governors, put a halt to the 10-year plan, fight for new postal leadership committed to the mission of the service, and reaffirm our opposition to all efforts which threaten privatization, cuts, and the undermining of our universal service mandate. One thing is crystal clear, it takes a postal village to deliver the mail. Therefore, we strongly urge the NALC Executive Board to take immediate concrete steps to mobilize the workforce and postal customers, and to convene a summit of all the postal unions and their supporters to turn the page on this grim chapter in our postal history. Every day that DeJoy and his accomplices are allowed to destroy the USPS piecemeal is an injury to the American people and the postal workforce. It must end today. We call on all postal workers, union locals, and allies to sign this letter and add their comments for the NALC and other union leadership. In Unity, Rank And File Postal Organizers Communities and Postal Workers United Kenneth Lerch, NALC, branch president Jamie Partridge, NALC, branch executive board Kimberly Karol, APWU, state president Kelly Dickey, NPMHU, local president Mike Bates, APWU, local president Chuck Zlatkin, APWU, local legislative & political director Malachi Dray, NALC, shop steward Lawanda Davis, APWU, local president Keith Steffen, NALC, branch editor Jack Nichols, APWU local president Terry Poplawski, NALC, past branch president Ibrahim Pedrinan, APWU, local president-elect Kathryn M Banks, NALC branch secretary Cynthia McNeilance, APWU local sec/treas David Staiger, NRLCA member David Yao, APWU local vice president Mark Rodriguez, NPMHU member Mark Sarcone, APWU, local editor Don Young, NALC, branch trustee Mallory Shepard, APWU steward Cathy Jones, NALC steward Willie Arrington, APWU local MVS craft director Lynn Mary Pallas-Barber, APWU, local asst. clerk craft director Rogue Robertson, NALC steward Victoria F Sawicki, NALC local MBA rep. John Wesley Wright, APWU, local director of legislation Marc J Mancini, NALC steward Richard Manifold, APWU local human resources Adam Albrecht, NALC steward Jody Anucik, APWU, steward Omar Ortega, NALC steward Aaron Goodman, NALC alt. steward Barbara Wilson, APWU steward Bryan Davies, NALC trustee Bill Bachmann, APWU, local elections chair D. Eddie Marshall Jr., NALC steward Jane Duggan, APWU, state retirees sec/treas Travis Epes, NALC steward Teresa Ann Williams, APWU, state retirees trustee Mildred Brown, APWU retiree local president Cindy Randolph, APWU, local trustee Yvonne Tatum, APWU, retiree chapter president Kevin A Wrede, NALC, branch newsletter cartoonist Lucy Morton, APWU local OWCP director Tracy Watson, APWU local chief steward Eduardo Ascanio Martínez, NALC retiree Donald Packwood, APWU local secretary-treas Virgilio Goze, NALC steward & sgt at arms Colleen Curren-Wong, APWU steward and chief trustee Cassandra Archie Evans. NALC alt. steward Dennis O’Neil, APWU retiree local political director Kari J Nye, NRLCA steward and sec-treas Alice Yvonne Lindstrom, APWU CLC delegate Linda Stoner, APWU, steward Travis Albert, NALC steward Adam Bachrach, NALC steward Consandra McCallum, NALC steward Kimberly Davenport, APWU steward Berta Q, NALC steward Loretta Heredia, APWU steward, editor Saul Ferrer, APWU steward Martha Raup, NALC branch retirees secretary Darla Holly, APWU trustee Glenn Reeman, NALC trustee Dale Cunningham, APWU trustee Paul Browning, APWU retirees state president Josh Brandon, NRLCA member John Heckler, APWU member Mary Ann Traba, NALC member Janice Glass, NALC, retired Devin Hallam, NPMHU, member Joe Piette, NALC, retired Justin Deis, NALC member Harriet Hobbs, APWU, retired Alexander Suggs, NALC member Jacqueline Caffrey, NALC member John Merritt, APWU, member Renny Kassel, NALC member Jonathan Barker, NPMHU, member Randy Juergens, APWU, member Orlando Allen, NALC, member Diane Walker, APWU, member Ryan Gray, NALC member John Harper, NALC member JoAnn Jurisic, APWU, retired Leo Trujillo, NALC, member Rhonda Ross, APWU, member June Albergo, NALC, member Chester Rice, APWU, retired Kyle Mailman, NALC, member Judy Jeffries, APWU, retired Phillip Winters, NALC member Jennifer Bushbaum, APWU, member Susan Marcus Wilbois, NALC retiree Josh Luther, APWU member Cathy Robinson, NALC member Lauren Fries, NALC member Sherry Petz, NALC member Penney Roses, APWU member Brodie Bates, APWU member David Medford, NALC, retired Cynthia Lamb, APWU retiree Raissa Roque, NALC member Laura Morrison, APWU member Patricia Cervantes, NALC member Maria Offutt, APWU member Perry Rivera, NALC member Charles Buchanan, NALC retiree David Noble, NALC member Daniel Nieves, NALC member Edward Garcia, NALC member James Worth, NALC member Stacy Betourne, NALC member Cass Martinez, NPMHU retiree Carl Mondragon, NALC member Eugene Price, NALC member Bradley J Knutson, NALC retired Dana Matthews, NALC member Shirley Masterson, APWU member Susan Monroe, NALC member Janine M. Yowell, APWU member Virginia Luzenski, NALC member Chris Ator, NALC member William Maldonado, NALC member Patricia Wilson, NALC member Nicole Lewis, NALC member Stephen Schmidt, NALC member Tara de Weever, NALC member Sue Fesler, APWU member Jesse Sherbourne, NALC member Sara Harayda, NALC member Kenan Bulut, NALC member Andrew Scheirer, APWU member Jordan Hofmann, NALC member Maureen D Gochett, NALC member Sandra Quintero, APWU member Jennifer Bryant, APWU retired Jeanne Huang, NALC member Steve Brown, NPMHU member Brian Bogle, NALC member Michael Telian, NALC member James Ogiba, NRLCA member Al Hunter, NALC member John Heckler, APWU member Mary Ann Traba, NALC member Catherine Dube, NRLCA member Anthony Reams, NALC member Kim Garrett, NRLCA member Shalon Brown, NRLCA member Larry D. Inskeep, NALC member Kelly Whitis, NALC member Ronald Lee, NALC member James Stepney, NALC member Claudia Martin, NALC member Gary L Moore, NALC member Darla K Vaughn, NALC member Karen Wing, APWU retiree Melanie Squires, NRLCA member Donna Parker, NRLCA member Jeffery Hoppis, NALC member Maryann Medina, APWU retiree William Henriksen, APWU member Lisa Henriksen, APWU member Kameron Santa Maria, NALC member Caroline Kelly, NRLCA member Tyler Cole, NALC member Perry Rivera, NALC member Steven Haile, NALC member Peter Shapiro, NALC retiree Tina Williams, NALC member Stacey Kowalisyn, NALC member Wendy Ellis, APWU member Heather Kratz, APWU member Evan Roberts, NALC member Barbara Bedocs, AWPU member Tantanaya Watkins, APWU member Ashley Cherry, NALC member Astreia Boykins, APWU member Jennifer DeWolf, NRLCA member Russell E Landau, APWU member Art Perea, NALC member Lillian Rodgers, NPMHU member Amber Lupi, NPMHU member Gary A. Merritt Jr., APWU member Matthew Harris, NPMHU member