NEW YORK — Paul Mailhot, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York, joined some 60 postal workers and their supporters, in spite of heavy rain, in the Harlem neighborhood here Feb. 16 to rally in solidarity with the National Association of Letter Carriers. Its members across the country have been locked in a nearly two-year-long fight for a new contract.
“Wages are always an issue, Hector Narvaez, pictured above, told Mailhot. “Also adequate staffing. Since COVID, they keep extending our hours — usually we work 10 to 12 hours.”
Quincy Lashley also pointed to long hours as a big question. He explained when workers can’t get their routes done by the 9 p.m. deadline supervisors will say, “Don’t worry, stay out another hour.”
Members of the union “are fighting for higher wages and better working conditions, to defend their health care and retirement,” said a statement by Mailhot distributed to rally participants. “The entire labor movement should back this fight and mobilize in support.”