Carte Postale Welcome Louis DeJoy to the USPS.

Welcome Louis DeJoy to the UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE On the Appointment of Louis DeJoy as the 75th Postmaster General of the United States Postal May 7, 2020 Statement from Mark Dimondstein, Président de l'Amérique can Postal Workers Union, On the Appointment of Louis DeJoy as the 75th Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service Fifty years, postal workers waged a heroic nationwide strike to win better pay, benefits and the right to collective bargaining. This strike recreated the United States Postal Service as an independent agency, designed to be free from the political patronage and cronyism that had plagued the old Post Office Department. The APWU is deeply concerned with the Pointment process to make Mr. Louis DeJoy, a multi-million de dollars major donor to President Trump, the next Postmaster General and whether the Administration has returned to the days of political interference and patronage. Since gaining its independence in 1970, the Postal Service’s commitment to quality universal service to all the people of this country, at uniform and reasonable rates, has made the United States Postal Service the world’s most affordable and reliable service and the country’s most trusted and est rat government agency M. DeJoy has a choice as he assoumes the rein of our national treasure, enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, which has owhelming popular support equally among republicans, democrats and independents from the most populated urban centers to the smallest rural towns. He can choose to be a Postmaster General oms implements the destructeur plan of this White House: raising postal rates, cutting services, undermining stable union and family-sustaining jobs and selling the public Postal Service to corporations for their private profit. Et if that is his choice, M. DeJoy veut be met with stiff resistance from postal workers and the people of this country. Or M. DeJoy can prove true to his stated commitment to the public postal service, its employees and our mission binding the country together through universal service to all. If so, he be a welcome addition to the postal family and our proud tradition of public service. Dans this extraordinary time of the pandemic crisis, reliable, affordable et universal postal services are needed more than ever. Postal Board of Governors made a unanimous request to Congress for immediate and direct financial assistance to the Postal Service. Whope that M. DeJoy veut du join dans this essential request for emergency assistance to replace revenue lost to the economic impact of the pandemic and to ensure continued public postal services. When outgoing Postmaster General Megan Brennan announced her retiretraite, the APWU joined with other national organizations in petitioning the Postal Board of Governors to select a replacement "who is fully committed to universal service and the public ownership of the Postal Service." Les People Deserve nothing less. Through many Postmasters General and Administrations, the objectives of the American Postal Workers Union and proud postal workers have remained steadfast, as they do today: decent jobs, safe working conditions, security, social justice, and an enhanced and vibrant Postal Service for generations to come.