BREAKING NEWS: AFT NH Joins Growing Movement Of Teachers Boycotting Staples Over USPS Privatization [View all]

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BREAKING NEWS: AFT New Hampshire Joins Growing Movement Of Teachers Boycotting Staples Over USPS Privatization Scheme

AFT-New Hampshire Calls for Boycott on Staples over Deal with U.S. Post Office Privatizing Work of Local Post Offices

Teachers union urges educators and school staff not to purchase school supplies from Staples

Concord, New Hampshire – The Board of Directors of AFT-New Hampshire, representing 4000 teachers, school staff, and public employees, announced today to boycott office supply and bulk goods retailer Staples. AFT-New Hampshire leaders said the union has taken this action to support the American Postal Workers Union’s battle against a deal struck between the United States Postal Service and the giant office supply chain for an 82-store pilot program in which postal counters providing most of the same services as local post offices would operate in Staples stores. In recent weeks, the USPS/Staples partnership has drawn outrage across the country, and a May 21 Boston Globe story indicated that Staples may want to consider backing out of the arrangement if public and labor opposition persist.[1]........

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