COMMITTEE ON

POLITICAL ACTION

 

 

 

 

The main focus of COPA is on political action and fundraising, as well as educating members on critical issues.

Members across this great country have gotten involved... members have organized and participated in numerous demonstrations, letter writing and phone campaigns, and voter registration drives. Members have also reached into their pockets to give financial support to political candidates that support postal workers and their concerns, and have supported COPA.

The campaign slogan of the APWU Committee On Political Action for 1998 was "Keep US in USPS and some of the issues facing postal workers at that time were privatization and contracting out of postal jobs, postal reform legislation, cuts in OSHA, retirement, pay and other benefits. Here we are in 2003 and we are still struggling to keep the US in USPS, and most of the same issues continue to threaten the security of all postal workers, as well as a struggling economy, changes in the mail volume, financial concerns expressed by the US Postal Service, and the streamlining of mail operations and personnel at all levels... issues which have intensified in the days following September 11, 2001...and compounded by anthrax contamination.

We cannot allow the focus of our members to be drawn away from the need to become and stay politically involved, to fight against renewed interest in privatization, postal reform legislation, cuts in the work force, cuts in retirement, pay and other benefits. Our lives and our world may have been challenged, but "we are the 800,000 men and women of the United States Postal Service" and there is strength in numbers.

Members raise funds at local meetings, as well as conventions, conferences and educational seminars. But to meet the political challenges which face us and threaten our future, political momentum cannot wane. We must continue to keep the pressure on law makers to protect our future. To meet the challenges that lay ahead, every postal worker, active and retired, we must do their part. Your postal future is at stake

Be informed, stay informed, let your voice be heard.