The U.S. Postal Service is downsizing and postal workers in Kern Counrty could lose their jobs
Over 200 jobs are at risk
Posted: 03/10/2013
Last Updated:
71 days ago
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -
For years, Bakersfield mail carriers have known that the local postal service sorting facility on Pegasus was set to shut down.
But they had initially been told that it would be closing in June of 2014. Now that date has been pushed up to June first of this year.
Yesterday the Bakersfield American Postal Workers Union met to discuss plans to keep the local plant open.
At risk are 200 sorting facility jobs and 55 clerk positions in Bakersfield.
Santa Clarita is the sorting facility that many Bakersfield workers could have their jobs relocated to, but it is 85 miles away.
At the meeting yesterday Postal Union workers discussed U.S. house resolution 630 which among other things could keep the local postal facility open.
The western region coordinator for the Western American Postal Workers Union is also working on behalf of the local union to stop the loss of any jobs.
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