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Monday, October 08, 2012
More Than 7,000 Postal Workers Are Taking Early Retirement Packages
Mail handlers will leave with an incentive of $15,000. For postmasters, it's 20,000. The Postal Service told Government Executive it had expected that many employees to take the offer. But it's just a drop in the bucket for an agency that wants to cut around 150,000 jobs to climb out of the red. It recently announced plans to offer a much bigger buyout to members of the American Postal Workers Union. Nearly 120,000 employees are eligible. The agency expects up to 20,000 workers to take it.
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And how many will be hired back as "civilian consultants"? More smoke and mirrors....
The manner in which this was delivered should not be defined as an offer.It should be called an ultimatum.Workers feel like the only sensible thing to do is to take the offer.They apparently don't have a third party to present to them the absolute dollar and cent bottom line.
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