New Postal Workers president confronts anthrax attacks

As postal employees in Minnesota and across the nation deliver the mail amid fears of more anthrax attacks, the new president of the American Postal Workers Union says safety will be his first priority.

Postal Workers President William Burrus takes office Nov. 10, but already is confronting the potential threats to his union’s 366,000 members. Burrus, now APWU executive vice president, was elected president of the world’s largest postal union in a three-way race. The Cleveland native succeed longtime President Moe Biller, who retired.

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Burrus was thrown into the anthrax mess, which saw a slow federal response in aiding postal workers after terrorists mailed anthrax to media people in New York and Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle’s office in Washington.

As a result, two Postal Workers in Washington’s Brentwood Road USPS Distribution Center died and other Postal Workers were hospitalized or treated with the drug Cipro.

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Daily meetings
Burrus told APWU members that he and other top postal union leaders “meet with management on an emergency basis every day to insure adequate protection for postal employees and the public.”

“In hindsight,” he said, the Centers for Disease Control should have tested USPS workers immediately after the mailings, and “we must do better.” But Burrus vowed: “We will not be cowed by those who wish to instill terror in our activities.”

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The Postal Service, Burrus says, will issue gloves, special masks, barrier creams and other protective gear to workers to guard against anthrax infection on the skin or by inhalation. He also said the Postal Service plans to buy millions of dollars worth of new anti-bacterial machines and agreed to halt “the blowing of postal machines during the cleaning process.” Blowing could spread the anthrax spores.

The anthrax attacks “place postal employees at ground zero of exposure to this hazardous biological material,” Burrus added in a bulletin. The unions and USPS management are working together, Burrus added, to relieve workers’ anxiety. But, he cautioned, workers should not pass that anxiety on to the public.

“We are the image of the Postal Service,” he added. Our “unparalleled acceptance…could be dramatically affected if it is perceived that postal employees fear the product they deliver. This is not the visual image we wish to project,” Burrus said.

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This article was written by Press Associates, Inc., news service. Used by permission.

For more information
Postal unions are running information about the anthrax threat on their websites:

American Postal Workers Union, http://www.apwu.org

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National Association of Letter Carriers, http://www.nalc.org

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