Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly

February 13, 2014 at 8:37 am.

Posted by LaborSolidarityCommittee

Categories:

When:

February 18, 2014 @ 2:00 am – 3:30 am

2014-02-18T02:00:00+00:00

2014-02-18T03:30:00+00:00

Where:

Downtown Berkeley Post Office
2000 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
USA

Contact:

Mike Wilson, Dave Welsh

Meeting

The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!

The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work.

And we’re fighting against both!

Come help us plan our next steps. The City Council is on a path to pass some sort of Zoning Overlay which may protect the Post Office against various commercial uses, or be totally ineffective. We need to stay on top of it. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against Staples; we need to support them. The next one is Saturday, Feb 15th, two days before our meeting. Encouraging articles have come out recently about using Post Offices as banking facilities for the unbanked and we need to be on the leading edge of that. And Barbara Lee has introduced even stronger language into legislation to stop the sale of Historic Post Offices.

We are planning an outreach event for sunday, February 23rd, a Conscious Commons Festival. Come help us plan and execute it!

THINGS ARE HAPPENING!

WE MAY BE WINNING!

AND CHECK OUT OUR SPIFFY NEW WEBSITE.

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