USPS employees rally in Midtown demanding better wages and working conditions

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USPS employees rally in Midtown demanding better wages and working conditions
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Sunday, a group of United States postal service employees gathered to protest their displeasure with USPS' latest contract offer to the National Association of Letter Carriers union.USPS city carrier technician Mike Willits joined his peers in this rally in front of the post office on Speedway and Campbell . Willits and other postal workers said they don't approve of the tentative labor agreement as it stands.

“Those wages are just not good enough to attract people to do what is a very physically demanding and stressful job,” Owen said. “Brand new people at the post office, they don’t get the same benefits as regular carriers,' Willits said. 'They don’t get very good pay. They get terrible hours.'The agreement would let some workers clock out after working 11.

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