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PAGE 10 | October 2, 2015 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS Hey, Postmaster General! No more cuts in postal service! Nearly three dozen postal workers, retirees, and postal customers rallied outside a confer- ence of the Greater Portland Postal Cus- tomer Council Sept. 23, where Postmaster Gen- eral Megan Brennan was speaking. Postal workers and their allies called on Brennan to stop closing mail pro- cessing plants and post offices, to stop cutting jobs, and to stop fur- ther delays of the mail. Since 2007, USPS has eliminated 155,000 jobs while closing 153 processing plants (al- most half, including plants in Salem and Pendleton, Oregon), and reducing service. Currently, Brennan is considering shuttering another 68 mail plants, including ones in Bend and Springfield, Oregon, plus reducing hours at 5,000 more rural post offices, including 37 in Oregon. Six-day and at-the-door delivery also are threatened. Protesters tried to take their message directly to the postmaster general, but they were turned away by security guards at the Portland Art Museum, where the conference was held. Later, retired letter carrier Jamie Partridge and Rev. John Schwiebert of Portland Commu- nities and Postal Workers United got a five minute meeting with Brennan, where they presented her with a petition containing 1,500 signatures demanding ‘No Closures, No Cuts, No Delay of the Mail.‘ “We’ll see if our pleas, petitions and postcards result in preserving the people’s post office,” said Schwiebert. Instafab strike From Page 1 That’s all we want,” says striker Matt Momb. Other workers have since joined the strike, bringing the to- tal to 16. Strikers have the support of Iron Workers Locals 29 and 516, and Portland Jobs with Jus- tice. They have appealed to In- stafab customers like Anderson Construction and Skanska to drop the company, but it’s not clear Instafab has lost any busi- ness thus far — just employees. Since July, neither side has at- tempted to make contact with the other. In June, Instafab owner Bruce Perkins said he wanted to meet with workers — in online comments at the Northwest Labor Press web site. After that, the two sides worked out plans to a meet July 8 at a Vancouver church, and workers agreed to Perkins’ condition that there be no representatives of the Iron Workers union present. But Perkins backed out when he learned that Portland Jobs with Justice executive director Diana Pei Wu would be attending. So far, several strikers have found work elsewhere, and two strikers have returned to work, though one later returned to the strike. Iron Workers Local 29 Presi- dent Robert Camarillo says In- stafab has made some improve- ments since the strike began — raising wages, installing an ad- ditional port-a-potty, and im- proving the employer-provided health insurance. Strikers are waiting for action from the National Labor Rela- tions Board. The union has four charges against Instafab alleging violations of federal labor law. One of the charges stems from statements Perkins made using an alias at nwlaborpress.org. All four charges are pending inves- tigation, and so is a charge In- stafab filed against Local 29. 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