Unions angered by Postal Service’s Staples outlets

By Sam Hananel

Published January 20, 2014 9:36am ET

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Unions angered by Postal Service’s Staples outlets — This March 6, 2013 file photo shows a Staples office supply store Miami. The opening of Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country is being met with threats of protests and boycotts by the agencyâs unions. The new outlets are staffed by Staples employees, not postal workers, and labor officials say that move replaces good-paying union jobs with low-wage, nonunion workers. (AP Photo/ Lynne Sladky, File) | Lynne Sladky

WASHINGTON (AP) — The opening of Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country is being met with threats of protests and boycotts by the agency’s unions.

The new outlets are staffed by Staples employees, not postal workers, and labor officials say that move replaces well-paying union jobs with low-wage, nonunion workers.

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