Letter Carriers president calls for crusade to save Postal Service
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5299
By Mark Gruenberg
27 July 2012
MINNEAPOLIS - Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando is challenging his union to step up its crusade to save the Postal Service, saying that “if we don’t, no one else will.”
In a keynote address to more than 8,000 union members at the NALC convention this week in Minneapolis, Rolando described the threats to the Postal Service – and to workers’ jobs – coming from both Congress and from agency management.
Postal service managers want to ruthlessly downsize the USPS, cutting delivery, laying off 100,000 workers, letting another 100,000 go by attrition and closing post offices. And House Republicans want to install a financial czar over the troubled agency, with the power to fire workers, rip up union contracts and cut benefits.
“But we have a secret weapon in the fight” to preserve the USPS, Rolando added: “Each other.”
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I lament the possible downgrade of the USPS... I use them exclusively for my personal mailings (my company uses FEDEX)
That doesn't happen to this group often!
Why there isn't more support for this on DU is perplexing.
Why are we willing to settle for closed branches, fewer distribution centers and the layoffs of tens of thousands of workers? We haven't bought into teabilly "austerity" spew, have we?
Certainly the intelligent posters at DU realize that the plutocracy's ultimate aim is to privatize USPS. And of course we all know what happens to options/price/quality when competition is diminished, right?
And there's another point: think what it takes to build a nationwide network that can reach just about any citizen in this huge country. That's what we have now, and they want to throw that away? Sheer stupidity/insanity.
Cher
