Amid Cutbacks, American Postal Workers Union Pushes USPS to Offer Banking Services

Contract talks began Thursday between the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and a reenergized union that seeks to broaden the field of play well beyond the negotiating room.

Leaders from the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) met their USPS counterparts at the Hyatt Regency after a rousing pep rally the night before at the AFL-CIO headquarters. It featured an array of pumped-up speakers, a Danny Glover video and the star himself.

While Glover’s star power was a big draw, so is his postal legacy.

His mother and father, sister and brother were postal workers, as was he during Christmas breaks from school.