US Postal Service
If it goes through, bound to affect jobs in
southern CA… eventually.
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/post-a13.shtml
By Barry Grey
13 August 2011
US Postal Service plans to cut 220,000 jobs
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has informed its employees that it plans to eliminate 220,000 jobs by 2015, slashing its current workforce by more than a third. It is also seeking to withdraw from the federal pension and health benefit systems and set up its own lower-cost programs.
Two members of Congress who have promoted bills that would enable the Postal Service to cut costs at the workers’ expense, Congressman Darrell Issa (Republican from California) and Senator Thomas Carper (Democrat from Delaware), responded to the USPS call for Congress to rip up union contracts and eliminate the no-layoff clause.
