NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS |
August 16, 2019 | PAGE 25
Wishing all Union members,
family and friends a happy
and safe Labor Day
From the folks who deliver
your mail 7 days a week!
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIER
BRANCH 82
“The basic goal of labor will not change. It is – as it has always been, and I am
sure always will be – to better the standards of life for all who work for wages
and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.”
--- George Meaney
Letter Carriers food
drive brings in 75.7
million pounds
The National Association of Let-
ter Carriers (NALC) reported
collecting 75.7 million pounds of
food in the Stamp Out Hunger
food drive May 11. It’s the
largest one-day food drive in the
nation. In the Portland metro
area, NALC Branch 82 collected
465,845 pounds, and Branch
1104 in Clark County, Washing-
ton, brought in 122,405 pounds.
“Hunger affects tens of mil-
lions of people around the coun-
try, including millions of chil-
dren, senior citizens and
veterans,” said NALC President
Fredric Rolando. “Letter Carriers
see these struggles in the com-
munities they serve, and believe
that it is important to do what
they can to help.”
Nowhere was that more ap-
parent than in the NALC branch
that finished first: San Juan,
Puerto Rico. Still struggling to
recover from the 2017 Hurri-
canes Maria and Irma, the cus-
tomers of Branch 869 donated
2.375 million pounds of food.
Los Angeles Branch 24 was
second, and led all the biggest
branches, with 2.076 million
pounds of food. Central Florida
Branch 1091 collected 2.001
million pounds of food and four
other Florida branches, plus
Oklahoma City, Garden Grove,
Calif., Long Island, N.Y., and
Pittsburgh collected more than a
million pounds each.
In Boise, Idaho, NALC
Branch 331’s small carrier force
of 200-349 members collected
478,484 pounds of food — sec-
ond nationally among NALC lo-
cals in that category.
In our glorious fight for civil
rights, we must guard
against being fooled by
false slogans, such as
‘right-to-work.’ It provides
no ‘rights’ and no ‘work.’ Its
purpose is to destroy labor
unions and the freedom of
collective bargaining ...
We demand this fraud be
stopped. The labor move-
ment was the principal
force that transformed
misery and despair into
hope and progress.
M ARTIN L UTHER K ING , J R .
Our labor unions are not
narrow, self-seeking groups.
They have raised wages,
shortened hours, and pro-
vided supplemental benefits.
Through collective bargaining
and grievance procedures,
they have brought justice and
democracy to the shop floor.
J OHN F. K ENNEDY
The only effective answer to
organized greed is organized
labor.
T HOMAS R. D ONAHUE
Nothing will work Unless You
Do!
M AYA A NGELOU