After skirmishes in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana, the next big union battle is brewing at your local post office.
The U.S. Postal Service’s two largest unions blasted the financially strapped agency’s proposal to cut as many as 120,000 jobs and pull its workers out of the retirement and health benefits plans covering federal workers for a new benefit systems.
The Postal Service, which is facing a second year of losses totaling $8 billion or more, would need congressional approval for its plan and cooperation from the postal unions, which have contracts that ban layoffs unless Congress intervenes.
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The greedy unions have brought the country to it's knees. They take workers money and pay politicians.
This sounds very much like the Verizon issues. The unions for both Verizon and the Post Office are very powerful, and their task is to preserve the jobs and benefits that the employees now enjoy. Times are quite different now, however, and something must be done. To have an $8 billion shortfall is totally unacceptable. Unfortunately, the cuts that must be made will fall on the backs of the employees, but what other choice is there? The Post Office is to be a self-sustaining entity, but obviously it isn't. I guess the choices are to preserve the status quo and raise revenue, i.e.increase stamp prices to $1.00,or make cuts in expenses. I ask again, is there a third choice I haven't thought of?
There are over 400,000 unemployed Americans.There are nearly 600,00 Postal workers who don't count in the unemployed tally. Shut down the USPS and contract it out and there are more than enough jobs to bring the ENTIRE unemployment down to ZERO from the private sector.
Could they do worse?
The postal service is arguably the most inefficient government entity in existence today. Everytime they raise the rates they lose more money. Not to mention the fact that the internet is steadily making the postal service obsolete. The demise of the U.S. Postal Service is inevitable. We need to just accept the fact. Oh...and unions are just as obsolete. They should go the way of the dinosaur as well.
We don't even need the post office , lets face it , it's over. Deal with UPS or Fed-Ex , they are better , faster and they work harder. They don't bitch and complain all the time because the have to take a few steps now and then.
There are over 400,000 unemployed Americans.There are nearly 600,00 Postal workers who don't count in the unemployed tally.
9:03 PM
Where are you getting your figures from? Last time I heard there were 14 MILLION unemployed.
Ahh, that union mentality. Doesn't matter that the USPS is loosing billions, we have to preserve the union job.
I walked through an auto assembly plant once and saw a robot working while a union "worker" was sitting there reading a newspaper. I asked the person guiding us why that guy was there. He answered that even though the robot does the work, the union contract prevented eliminating this guys job, so they pay him to sit and watch the robot work.
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