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>It's the usual story: capture of the USPS by its unions... Oh, if only it weren't for all those undeserving, greedy workers! Clearly the problem is that they
by scrod 15y ago
>It's the usual story: capture of the USPS by its unions...
Oh, if only it weren't for all those undeserving, greedy workers! Clearly the problem is that they banded together to protect each others' wages, access to medical care, and dignity in the workplace! Thank goodness we have Businessweek to confirm our reactionary free market biases for us.
You guys must be loving these budget crises — they provide such a convenient pretext for attacking worker's rights and consolidating the power of the owning class while sidestepping the inherent contradictions of the system which caused those crises at the outset.
- alttag 15y agoYes, it's irresponsible to _only_ excoriate the line workers. But wholly absolving them does no good either. Surely, there's enough blame to go around. (With an added helping for Congress, perhaps?)