WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) According to the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), Wausau’s mail processing and distribution facility will be consolidated with a similar facility in Green Bay.
According to the Postal Service, the strategy of “moving, removing, and repurposing” equipment is an ongoing strategy that “allows for more efficient, timely delivery of mail and packages.”
Plans to consolidate 62 facilities around the country were halted in 2015. Now the consolidations are back on, and are scheduled to be completed this November.
According to the APWU, they haven’t been told about changes in employment from the changes.
“We have made crystal clear to postal management that any further plant consolidations are a misguided strategy that not only disrupts the lives of postal workers but will further delay mail,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. “The previous plant closings and consolidations were a complete failure and we will fight back facility-by-facility and community-by-community to save these processing plants. After a year of courageous and essential frontline work in this pandemic, management’s actions are a slap in the face of postal workers.”
The Postal Service says the changes are a part of it’s 10-year plan of network and operational changes.
Dimondstein has appointed a national plant closing and consolidation committee. It includes Executive Vice President Debby Szeredy and including the five APWU regional coordinators.
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