(Santa Barbara News-Press ) “The APWU postal union established a memorial fund for five employees killed in Goleta — but gave a cold shoulder to the sixth worker slain there. To the American Postal Workers Union, Maleka Higgins is apparently a nonperson. Maleka’s financially challenged family — husband Pablo and her now-motherless child Emily — stand to receive little if anything, other than from local donations. Why? Because according to Maleka’s mother, Sherie Higgins, Maleka dropped out of the union after many years when she went on maternity.” Open Comments

Source: Santa Barbara News-Press