Workers Win Victory against Staples

In a victory for workers, the U.S. Postal Service announced in a letter to the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) that the deal between the U.S. Postal Service and Staples has ended. Staples will be removing all signage and will discontinue postal services at the national retailer's roughly 500 U.S. locations that handle postal services by the first week of March 2017.

This is a big win for the public, as well as the 200,000 members of APWU and the union's allies including CWA who waged a national campaign, Stop Staples, against the office-supply chain and a battle against the USPS over the Postal Service's partnership with the national office supply retailer.

Three years ago, the union challenged the USPS' scheme of privatizing postal retail operations and shifting postal services from neighborhood post offices to Staples locations. The union contended that this privatization effort undermined the public's right to good quality and secure postal services, and represented a shift of good living wage positions to low-wage jobs, thereby hurting the well-being of the communities where the union's members lived.

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