Note: The following are excerpts from an article by the Wall Street Journal. Megan J. Brennan Sees ‘Plenty of Upside’ for Financially Strapped Postal Service Ms. Brennan, who has spent nearly three decades at the agency since her yearlong stint as a letter carrier, is on deck to become the nation’s first woman postmaster general. […]
Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2013 Union Membership Report In 2013, the union membership rate—the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions—was 11.3 percent, the same as in 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.5 million, was little […]
Over the years there has been a lot of discussions, white papers…etc on why the USPS should be privatized. However, the people pushing for privatization of USPS has failed to mention the high cost to taxpayers. As Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) aptly put it: “We have spent a lot of time in Congress talking about […]