Yea, but most of the time when the Post office announces “lay-offs”, Nobody actually looses a job. They do most of their cutting back by attrition and route restructuring, which always seems to end up with less full time routes, more part time routes and more part time staff, and the union in a tizzy filing grievances.
Would that more businesses cut back personnel by attrition. Before I went to work for the Postal Service, I was working in a shipyard, where I could never tell from one day, to the next, whether or not I would be laid off, or not, and could feed my family, or not. Do you call *that* a life?
As far as the APWU goes, while a member in name only, my opinion of them is about equal to my opinion of USPS middle management, and thus unprintable here...
the infowarrior