Winnebago County Supervisors consider USPS vehicle resolution

The Winnebago County Board of Supervisors meets this evening and will consider a resolution supporting production in Oshkosh of the U.S. Postal Service’s Next Generation Delivery Vehicles. The federal government awarded a ten-year, $482-million contract to Oshkosh Corporation. That’s for 165,000 of the vehicles in February 2021. The company then announced that the vehicles will be made at its facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina. United Auto Workers Local 578 has called on Oshkosh Corporation to make those vehicles at its Oshkosh operations. The company has said, however, the Oshkosh facilities don’t have the capacity needed to produce those vehicles in Wisconsin.