A good story from Truth Out: The US Continues To Eat Its Own Destroying Any Institution That Provides Services For Its Own People

Postal Workers: The Last Union

Thursday 8 September 2011

by: Allison Kilkenny, Truthout | News Analysis

(Photo: Ninja M. / Flickr)

The recent attacks against the United States Postal Service (USPS) are more than signs of desperate times - a natural sunset moment for a service rendered archaic by FedEx and UPS. Rather, the Postal Service has been under constant, vicious assault for years from the right, who views this as an epic battle with the goal of finally taking down the strongest union in the country, the second largest employer in the United States (second only to Wal-Mart,) and a means to roll the country ever closer toward the abyss of privatization.

The Postal Service, which is older than the Constitution itself, stands at a precipice. If this great institution, which provides one of the oldest, most reliable services in the country, is permitted to fall and Congress kills its great union, then truly no collective bargaining rights, no worker contract, no union will be safe within the United States.

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