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DESCRIPTION:The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!\n\nThe 
 Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, 
 replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work.\n\nAnd we're 
 fighting against both!\n\nCome help us plan our next steps.\n\nWe've began 
 the "Don't Shop at Staples" campaign with some awesome... what else? ... 
 postcards to send to Staples management!  The campaign has been adopted by 
 Postal Unions, the San Francisco Labor Council and has been endorsed by the 
 AFL-CIO, and has gone national!\n \nAll four Postal Unions have joined 
 together to support maintaining full service, public Post Offices in every 
 community, with expansion to include postal banking, and to oppose 
 subcontracting and privatization of services. The California Federation of 
 Teachers passed a resolution in support of opposition to Staples.  We are 
 trying to get the Alameda Labor Council to pass a similar 
 resolution.\n\nAnd we need to be prepared if the Post Office announces a 
 sale! The Advisory Commission on Historical Preservation came out with its 
 report, recommending that sales of Historic Post offices be halted until 
 the USPS conforms with historical preservation law. Here is our response. 
  Also the Office of Inspector General's report on the sale of Historic 
 Post Offices came out  recently - anything could happen now since 
 Congress' "request" that no historic Post Offices be sold until it had come 
 out has been honored and no further Congressional request or mandate has 
 come down. Come help us plan our response.\n\nWe have joined with other 
 activists in Berkeley to put a ballot initiative on the ballot to rezone 
 the Berkeley Post Office and other areas in the Historic District to 
 prevent privatization, and also to insure a better Downtown Berkeley.  We 
 succeeded in getting the necessary signatures; it will be voted on in 
 November, but Tom Bates and the City Council have nefarious plans to 
 undermine our coalition.\n\nEncouraging articles are still coming out about 
 using Post Offices as banking facilities for the unbanked. The National 
 Conference of Mayors just endorsed Postal Banking. We held a forum on 
 postal and public banking on March 29th on the Post Office steps.\n\nWe are 
 planning our next event, 'Jam the Sale.' Spread the workd and come help us 
 out!\n\nTHINGS ARE HAPPENING!\n\nAND CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/26/18757943.php
SUMMARY:Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
LOCATION:Downtown Berkeley Post Office Steps\n2000 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/26/18757943.php
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