NORTHRIDGE : Letter Carriers Stage Post Office Protest
About 40 letter carriers picketed Tuesday outside the Northridge post office to protest what they claimed is verbal abuse by supervisors and poor working conditions.
Jon Gaunce, president of the Tri-Valley Branch of the National Assn. of Letter Carriers, said 21 employees at the Northridge post office have been disciplined unfairly this year. That discipline, he said, ranged from verbal abuse to changes in starting times.
But U.S. Postal Service spokesman Phillip Schoeffling said the picketing was a response to disciplinary action taken against a shop steward. “I’m not sure at this point that there is a problem,” he said.
Gaunce acknowledged the action against the steward, but said it was only one of his group’s grievances.
The protesters did not disrupt post office operations.
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