Posted on 06/25/2012 10:33:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Ten current and former postal workers launched a more than 3-day hunger strike Monday to protest looming cuts and closures at the U.S. Postal Service.
Drastic? Yes. But organizers say desperate times call for desperate measures.
The hunger strikers want the Postal Service to shelve its July plans to start closing or consolidating 48 mail processing plants. By the end of 2014, when the plan to shrink the postal network is completed, 229 plants will be consolidated or closed and 28,000 jobs will be gone.
They also want Congress to eliminate a mandate that has been a major financial drag on the service -- annual $5.5 billion payments to prefund health care benefits for future retirees. The strikers say say eliminating the mandate would solve the Postal Service's financial problems.
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Any action short of elimination and the replacement of local delivery with a rural route carrier stopping at an NCDBU is a subsidy!
The PMG broke and bent to the will of Senators who continue to be deluded in believing those offices are needed.
The worst state in the union for little bity useless post offices is Kentucky ~ and the Senate minority leader is from there. He's supposed to be educable.
Oh, and what choice did he have?
The Senators don't think they're needed -- they just don't want to hear complaints from constituents about the local Post Office closing down. The same goes for the processing plants.
Buffalo's processing plant was slated for closure. Do you think for a minute that Congress-critters Higgins (D) and Hochul (D), let alone Senator Schumer (D) were going to let 700 union jobs in Buffalo just go away? Your criticisms should be aimed at Congress.
My congressman is an idiot.
I think they held flagellant protests instead.
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