Postal workers, supporters rally on Sept. 27

Save the U.S. Postal Service!

When the government demands the layoff of 120,000 unionized postal workers, the closings of thousands of post offices and mail processing centers and begins the assault on collective bargaining rights—all of us must join together and say NO!

This Tuesday, Sept. 27, postal workers across the country together with their supporters took to the streets for a national day of action to protect the United States Postal Service (USPS) and save 120,000 jobs.

Rallies took place in every congressional district in every U.S. state. Justice First members and volunteers joined the rallies in solidarity with the postal workers in several states.

Click on the photo to the right to watch a slideshow of Sept. 27 actions that took place across the country.

Watch the Justice First video interviews with USPS workers

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Save the U.S. Postal Service!

Stop layoffs and union busting!

Those who want to destroy the public postal service by saying that it is "bankrupt" are lying. The situation has been manufactured by placing ridiculous, unnecessary financial requirements on the postal service that no other company has to abide by. Their aim is to turn it over to some major corporation, which will make billions in profit while cutting service.

I agree with the hundreds of thousands of others who demand that there be no closings of post offices, layoffs of postal workers or a reduction of wages and benefits obtained by workers through the collective bargaining process.

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Background: An artificial crisis.

A Bush-era bill is killing the Post Office.

A 2006 postal reform law requires the USPS to pre-fund 75 years' worth of future retiree health benefits within just 10 years.

No other federal agency or private enterprise is forced to pre-fund similar benefits like this, especially on such an aggressive schedule.

This postal-only mandate costs the USPS $5.5 billion per year. It accounts for 100 percent of the Postal Service’s $20 billion in losses over the past four years.

It also accounts for 100 percent of the rise in the Postal Service’s debt in recent years.

Without the mandate, the USPS would have been profitable over the past four years, and rather than having to use up its $15 billion line of credit from the U.S. Treasury to cover the pre-funding obligation, the Postal Service would have had significant borrowing authority to ride out the bad economy it now faces.

(Source: SaveAmericasPostalService.org)