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10 postal workers launch hunger strike
CNN Money ^ | June 25, 2012 | By Jennifer Liberto

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: governmentworkers; mail; postal; postoffice; publicworkers
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1 posted on 06/25/2012 10:33:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And I should be concerned about this why?


2 posted on 06/25/2012 10:34:34 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Journalists first; then lawyers.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Based on the guts in that pic, most of them could go a couple months before running short on body mass.


3 posted on 06/25/2012 10:36:06 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

next new USPS stamp: the FOOD STAMP.


4 posted on 06/25/2012 10:36:29 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

3 days?

Pikers.

Make it 3 weeks. Yeah. Then we’ll know they’re serious.


5 posted on 06/25/2012 10:36:39 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

oh brother.


6 posted on 06/25/2012 10:37:46 AM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (According to the MSM, I'm a fringe sitting, pajama wearing, Freeper)
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To: Arm_Bears

And I should be concerned about this why?

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Because a starving emaciated postal worker might not get the 3rd class junk mail to you on time.

That would be a pity, right?


7 posted on 06/25/2012 10:38:40 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

At least they have not gone postal on the public...yet.


8 posted on 06/25/2012 10:39:12 AM PDT by formosa (Formosa)
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To: Arm_Bears

The state won’t achieve it’s quota for Food Stamp distributions.


9 posted on 06/25/2012 10:40:15 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: nascarnation

“Based on the guts in that pic, most of them could go a couple months before running short on body mass.”

Beat me to it.


10 posted on 06/25/2012 10:40:19 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (Ten years on FreeRepublic and counting.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

3 day hunger strike?

Probably the healthiest thing they ever did in their years at the Post Office.


11 posted on 06/25/2012 10:43:17 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well, my carrier could stand to miss a few meals.


12 posted on 06/25/2012 10:45:08 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Journalists first; then lawyers.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Judging from the guys pictured in the article, looks like they decided to parlay their doctors’ medical advice into a piece of political theater.


13 posted on 06/25/2012 10:45:08 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Here’s all you have to do to get a postal worker to go off the hunger strike.... you offer him a Drake’s Coffee Cake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZU05h3U2Hw


14 posted on 06/25/2012 11:01:04 AM PDT by Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand
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Send this guy over there on day 2 and let's see what happens ...


15 posted on 06/25/2012 11:01:29 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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16 posted on 06/25/2012 11:04:26 AM PDT by traumer
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To: No Truce With Kings

How much beer are they drinking? ;-)


17 posted on 06/25/2012 11:04:53 AM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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To: Arm_Bears

“And I should be concerned about this why?”

I hope that they get around to our “satellite” Post Office here in Danville, CA. The people who “work” there think that they are doing you a favor to wait on you.
They are mostly minorities who can’t afford to live here, so they crap on those of us who pay them!


18 posted on 06/25/2012 11:07:58 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

3 days is a “hunger strike”? At church they call that a “fast”. At the health spa it is known as a “cleanse”.

A true “hunger strike” involves starving oneself to death, if one’s demands are not met.


19 posted on 06/25/2012 11:10:41 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The candidate I vote for will NOT have a CARE after his name.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yep, I just don’t see the “Bobby Sands” level of commitment here.


20 posted on 06/25/2012 11:12:50 AM PDT by dfwgator
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