Monday, December 24, 2012

Postal Workers go on hunger strike over proposed budget cuts

...Six former and current postal workers, part of a group called Communities and Postal Workers United, are calling the strike “six days starving to save six-day delivery.” Their goal is to stop Congress from reducing postal delivery to five days a week. 
[...] 
The agency lost $16 billion in fiscal year 2012, and needs to cut around $22.5 billion from its annual budget by 2016. 
One top proposal, to reduce postal delivery days in order to reduce expenses at the cash-strapped USPS, would also cut letter carrier jobs. According to the protesters, as many as 80,000 postal jobs could be lost....
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1 comment:

CRUZ COUNTRY said...

Can't blame them for trying.

But Uncle Sam is broke.

b ... r ... o ... k ... e

BROKE!!!