DeJoy has supported and donated to President Donald Trump, who has publicly linked his opposition to emergency funding for the Postal Service to his desire to restrict voting by mail in the 2020 elections. A Gallup poll showed 61 percent approval for the postal workers who were striking and holding up their mail.”. We need more, not less, help for the Postal Service to gear up for what's expected to be a crush of mail-in ballots. The protest was organised to enable the students to show their anger and disappointment to the University of Edinburgh, after the students felt they were misled after they returned to find the vast majority of their lectures and contacts were all online, The sun rises over the Severn crossing as traffic crosses from England into Wales, where a countrywide firebrake lockdown will begin from 6pm today until 12.01am on 9 November, EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier wearing an EU-flag themed face mask arriving at a conference centre in central London to attend a new round of trade talks with the UK. I've asked Attorney General Brnovich to investigate recent changes at USPS, and whether or not the Trump administration has committed a crime. Nur in Sachsen und Sachsen-Anhalt habe es keine Warnstreiks gegeben, sagte ein Verdi-Sprecher der Deutschen Presse-Agentur. As democracy has grown over the years, so has the Postal Service. “Meaning, they’d beg Congress for whatever changes they could get, both in terms of wages and treatment.”. Stanton: You mentioned Andrew Jackson firing post office employees over their politics. Workers say it's to boost on-time delivery statistics", Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service, National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees, National Rural Letter Carriers' Association, United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General, Postage stamps and postal history of the United States, USPS Post Office Box Lobby Recycling program, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2020_United_States_Postal_Service_crisis&oldid=983921191, Controversies of the 2020 United States presidential election, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from September 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 17 October 2020, at 01:57. [58] The problems are especially severe for small businesses. [42], Starting in April 2020, President Donald Trump began to speak out against voting by mail, claiming without evidence[43] that it is subject to massive fraud, and threatening to take steps to prevent states from sending absentee ballots to voters. In its first collective bargaining agreement the next year, workers got another 18 percent raise. In the age before the Internet, business was at a standstill, too. The financial industry ground to a halt. It was running up deficits of close to a billion dollars a year. The crew are scheduled to conduct 14 days of technical trials off the coast of North Wales before the the shipyard formally hands it over to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) crew for intensive training at Holyhead Port. The delays he's implemented just in the last month have caused widespread mail slowdowns of all kinds of mail — first-class, marketing mail, parcels. The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning. On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump took to Fox Business Network to say the quiet part out loud: He is holding up funding of the U.S. Conceivably, they could have been arrested, tried, convicted with jail time, given fines, lost their jobs and their unions could have been decertified. “They could not sort the mail. Slavery cost him his family. We will run the biggest campaign the movement has ever seen.”. The satirical artist Cold War Steve has been ordered by the council to cover up a massive windbreak depicting a naked Boris Johnson chasing a pig, which was due to be displayed on Boscombe beach. Judy Beard stood on the picket line every single day, singing church songs like “We Shall Not Be Moved.” Her parents weren’t mad, she said. [1][2][3] The delays have had substantial legal, political, economic, and health repercussions. 5:00 AM. March 18, 2020 . At the time, it was known as the U.S. Post Office Department, and the postmaster general was a Cabinet-level position. No postal workers were ever prosecuted or punished for the wildcat strike. I don’t have enough money to buy food. [44] Despite his false[43] claims of fraud, Trump himself voted by mail in recent elections, as did First Lady Melania Trump and many senior administration officials. [41] Because of the operational changes causing delays in mail delivery, the Postal Service sent a letter to 46 U.S. states in July 2020, warning each state that the service might not be able to meet that state's deadlines for requesting and casting absentee ballots. What Postmaster General DeJoy appears to be doing is enabling Trump's external sabotage, only DeJoy is internally sabotaging the Postal Service while denying that his policies of cutting overtime, of holding back first-class mail are anything more than what he referred to as sensationalized, isolated incidents. 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The Royal Mail said: “The company is making this High Court application because the integrity and legal soundness of any electoral process is vital. The company received $14 million in contracts in ten weeks between June and September 2020. In July, at DeJoy’s direction, USPS began to eliminate overtime pay for postal workers, ordering them to instead end their shifts at a set time rather than when all the mail is delivered — leading to delivery delays. [8] This law, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, was passed during a lame-duck session, and shepherded through the Senate by Senator Susan Collins of Maine. Stanton: If the Postal Service isn’t funded, it’s not just ballots that won’t be delivered. Over the past two years, he has mocked the Postal Service as “a joke” and a “Delivery Boy” for Amazon. And once you take something offline, it's really expensive to bring it back. What changes when you pass up or reshuffle that sort of institutional knowledge within USPS? “We are disappointed that CWU has said it is preparing another ballot of its members for industrial action. Mail that baby: A brief history of kids sent through the U.S. And this has really ramped up with Postmaster General DeJoy doing things like delaying mail and eliminating overtime. You could start to see conservative forces and private carriers — FedEx started in 1971 — starting a campaign to privatize the Postal Service. Fresh nationwide lockdown restrictions in England appear to be on the cards soon as the British government targeted more areas Friday in an attempt to suppress a sharp spike in new coronavirus infections, A model presents a creation during the Bora Aksu catwalk show at London Fashion Week 2020, World kickboxing champion Carl Thomas during his attempt to run a marathon while pulling a plane at Elvington Airfield near York. The postmaster general granted an immediate 6 percent raise, plus an additional 8 percent in a few months, and the right to collective bargaining. One lawsuit is being led by Washington state, joined by Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin; a second is being led by Pennsylvania, joined by California, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. What are the risks in Trump’s game of brinksmanship with the agency? [15] DeJoy also reorganized USPS leadership and staffing. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. [75][76], On August 17, 2020, DeJoy agreed to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on August 24, and the next day he agreed to testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs on August 21. Am 29. Last month members of the CWU backed action by 97 per cent in a turnout of almost 75 per cent. The longer this takes, the more year three of our plan becomes a risk.”. So in New York City, rank-and-file letter carriers struck on March 18, 1970. This gives you an idea of what this country can do when it uses its mail service to try to enfranchise as many people as possible. Das entspreche zwei beziehungsweise drei Prozent der Tagesmenge, so der Sprecher. Royal Mail bosses are seeking an injunction to block a planned strike by postal workers, ... 21 October 2020. The strikers were threatened with arrest, but as Chicago postal worker Greg Boyles told CBS News, “I don’t care … if they want to put me in jail, put me in jail, but they haven’t got a big enough jail to put all of us in.”, In the end, about 210,000 postal workers were involved. 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