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But the unions do have influence. The Business Week article is from May. A few days ago, the USPS proposed a plan that would break existing labor contracts in o
by nhebb 15y ago
But the unions do have influence. The Business Week article is from May. A few days ago, the USPS proposed a plan that would break existing labor contracts in order to keep it solvent. The plan includes cutting the workforce by 120,000 and running their own health care plan. Naturally, the service unions opposed it, making congressional highly approval doubtful.
Here's the related article from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/usps-proposes-cutting-120000-jobs-pulling-out-of-health-care-plan/2011/08/11/gIQAZxIM9I_print.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/usps-proposes-cutting...
- ubernostrum 15y agoThere's a difference between "influence" and "bad influence", and between "influence" and "running it into the ground". The union quite reasonably objects to cutting 120,000, because there's no need to. The postal service could be quite solvent if Congress -- which is not the union and not, so far as I know, acting at the union's behest -- would take away the idiotic mandate to fund 75 years worth of benefits. In other words, this is something the union should oppose.