National Association of Letter Carriers holds rally after death of postal worker Octavia Redmond in Chicago shooting

CHICAGO (WLS) — The National Association of Letter Carriers is planning a rally Monday morning over the shooting of a postal worker in Chicago.

The president of the National Association of Letter Carriers believes more needs to be done to protect union members on the job.

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Octavia Redmond, 48, a postal worker, was shot multiple times last Friday while at work in the West Pullman neighborhood.

Redmond was a wife and grandmother and worked as a mail carrier for more than 15 years.

The Chicago division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a reward of up to $250,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the shooter.

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The Local Government Employees Union will work with postal workers’ unions to change policies and pass legislation to better protect postal workers.

The union said more than 140 letter carriers have been attacked on the job in Chicago since August 2022.

Some of the mail carriers who have been robbed, attacked or subjected to violence on their routes plan to tell their stories at the rally, which is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. at the union building in South Wabash.