2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Lands His Biggest Union Endorsement Yet
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-lands-biggest-union-endorsement/story?id=35144187The group represents 200,000 U.S. Postal Service employees and retirees from across all 50 states. The APWU executive board announced its choice early this morning.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)There is an effort to destroy the USPS. That they put their trust in Sanders is very revealing, to me.
msrizzo
(796 posts)Kudos to Team Sanders.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)BootinUp
(47,211 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)IOW, not bought and paid for.
HUGE endorsement for Bernie!
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
George II
(67,782 posts)...unions that endorse because they're "bought and paid for"?
stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)I truly don't trust HRC when it comes to STRENGTHENING our public postal system. At all.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)And they KNOW who is in their corner unequivocally, and it's Bernie Sanders.
GOP platform calls for privatizing USPS
The Republican Partys proposed platform suggests that the US Postal Service is in need of restructuring. Not surprisingly, the restructuring involves privatization. The brief item starts with one of the most time-honored postal cliches: mail delivery from the era of the Pony Express cannot long survive. (I dont know about you, but my mail is delivered from a mail truck. And the Pony Express didnt survive the nineteenth century, never mind the twentieth!)
The plank concludes In light of the Postal Services seriously underfunded pension system, Congress should explore a greater role for private enterprise in appropriate aspects of the mail-processing system.
Most readers will know that the USPS pension system is actually better funded than most private pension systems, but then, you dont read party platforms for reasoned analysis of the issues. When it comes to privatizing, which is a matter of faith for the GOP, any excuse will do.
http://www.savethepostoffice.com/gop-platform-calls-privatizing-usps-0