10 Things America’s Unions Need to Do on Labor Day

By now, anyone who’s paid attention to what has optimistically been called the “American labor movement” is aware that organized labor is in critical need of resuscitation and revitalization, if not downright reinvention. Despite its storied history — and it being the only friend that working men and women have ever had (note the undeniable…

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Postal Service forges ahead on job cuts, plant closures

(August 28, 2014) Even as some lawmakers push to limit Postal Service cost-cutting measures, the agency still plans to reduce its workforce by up to 15,000 employees and close up to 82 processing centers. On Aug. 14, a bipartisan group of 50 senators and 10 House lawmakers wrote a letter demanding Congress prohibit the Postal…

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