Boycott Staples

[Disir]

Post Office Piles on Shift to Low-wage Economy With Staples Deal

The National Employment Law Project (NELP) has just come out with its latest report on the wage levels of jobs added as the nation has emerged from the Great Recession. As with NELP's previous reports, which continue to garner national attention, the news was pretty simple: we're only adding low wage jobs. Some 1.85 million more low-wage workers -- defined by under $13.33 an hour -- are employed by low-wage industries now then in 2008. About the same number, 1.93 million workers -- fewer workers are now employed in mid-wage and higher-wage industries.

The U.S. Postal Service has historically been one of those higher-wage industries, with average pay just under $25 an hour. For generations, postal jobs have been a ticket to the middle class, including as one of the few employers who hired African-Americans at good wages earlier in the 20th century. But the post office is accelerating a new strategy to increase sales and shed labor costs by opening up mini-post offices at Staples stores.

Staples is one of those low-wage employers, with Staples workers reporting that retail clerks average around $8.50 an hour. After piloting the mini-post offices in 82 Staples stores, the post office announced it would expand the program, prompting the American Postal Workers Union to organize more than 50 protest rallies outside Staples stores around the country.

Of course, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said that no postal jobs would be lost because of the Staples program and that the motivation was "growing our business." But the same Wall Street Journal article with Donohoe's statement revealed the real motivation. It quoted an internal postal service memo, which said that the Staples pilot program was to determine "if lower costs can be realized with retail partner labor instead of the labor traditionally associated with retail window at Post Offices." Oops!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-kirsch/post-office-piles-on-shif_b_5234242.html

It's time for Donahoe to go.

More destruction of the middle class and not a peep.

 

[boedicca]

What an excellent program! This gives me a reason to shop at Staples!

 

[Pheonixops]

I don't understand why the OP wants to boycott Staples.

 

[Disir]

Because it's continued destruction of the middle class.

 

[boedicca]

Blah blah blah class warfare nonsense.

If you are really concerned about the welfare of the middle class, then you should advocate to roll back taxes and keep the Fed from printing money/spurring inflation which is a tax on the middle class.

The total tax burden on the median family has more than doubled as a percent of income since the 1950s. They pay more in taxes than they do for Food, Housing, and Transportation.

 

[Pheonixops]

Because it's continued destruction of the middle class.

Aren't they just taking an advantage of an opportunity to make money? Who provided them that opportunity?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Because it's continued destruction of the middle class.

Which is also the reason why some (middle class) rw's will shop there.

Like I've said before, we now have an entire political party running on the promises to make you poor and keep you poor while trashing the US. Amazingly, there are some who are in favor of this.

 

[Disir]

Issa. It's the continued attempt to destroy the Post Office.

 

[boedicca]

The POST OFFICE is destroying itself by adhering to an obsolete and cost prohibitive business model.

 

[Disir]

Because it's continued destruction of the middle class.

Which is also the reason why some (middle class) rw's will shop there.

Like I've said before, we now have an entire political party running on the promises to make you poor and keep you poor while trashing the US. Amazingly, there are some who are in favor of this.

That is exactly what they are doing.

 

[MACAULAY]

They want to boycott Staples because Staples is going to provide workers to do a job worth about ten dollars an hour...and charge ten dollars an hour...which the public employee Unions are bilking the taxpayers out of $25 per hour to do.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I don't understand why the OP wants to boycott Staples.

Same reason, he wants to boycott Walmart. He doesn't give a damn that millions of jobs are created. He doesn't understand economics.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

I don't understand why the OP wants to boycott Staples.

Same reason, he wants to boycott Walmart. He doesn't give a damn that millions of jobs are created. He doesn't understand economics.

You sure?

 

[Plasmaball]

The POST OFFICE is destroying itself by adhering to an obsolete and cost prohibitive business model.

build one less plane...who gives a shit.
Seriously.....im tired of people like you shitting on people with low wages. Go make 8.50 an hour and see how long you last with your current life style.

also no assistance ( because you hate it)
No healthcare because you cant afford it.
Barely enough gas to get you to that job.
May or may not have a cell phone to call for those jobs....

 

[Plasmaball]

I don't understand why the OP wants to boycott Staples.

Same reason, he wants to boycott Walmart. He doesn't give a damn that millions of jobs are created. He doesn't understand economics.

trading a job that pays 25 an hour for a job that pays 8.50 hurts the economy dumbass

 

[Luddly Neddite]

I don't understand why the OP wants to boycott Staples.

Same reason, he wants to boycott Walmart. He doesn't give a damn that millions of jobs are created. He doesn't understand economics.

trading a job that pays 25 an hour for a job that pays 8.50 hurts the economy dumbass

That's the whole point.

 

[USNavyVet]

Boycott Staples? You mean I have to use paper clips for everything?

Anyway, good move for the USPS. The post office is in the Constitution so I agree that it should exist but it's a monetary black hole in part due to labor costs. This is an attempt at matching the work with the cost and it will be good for the USPS. They can even expand the program to Wal-Marts and really cut their costs down.

 

[Katzndogz]

No more long lines at the post office to try to get some service from surly government employees who are convinced they are doing you a favor is harmful. Just how? Post offices are closing all over the country. This just doesn't have a downside?

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Blah blah blah class warfare nonsense.

If you are really concerned about the welfare of the middle class, then you should advocate to roll back taxes and keep the Fed from printing money/spurring inflation which is a tax on the middle class.

The total tax burden on the median family has more than doubled as a percent of income since the 1950s. They pay more in taxes than they do for Food, Housing, and Transportation.

You want to back that up with facts or just more pixelated methane? You must be on welfare to make a ridiculous statement like that. Or else the 1% and I SERIOUSLY doubt that.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

The POST OFFICE is destroying itself by adhering to an obsolete and cost prohibitive business model.

Cost prohibitive? So sending a letter from Alaska to Florida for .49 is more than you can afford?