US postal workers fight cutbacks, union busting

BY MAGGIE TROWE In a national day of action organized by four postal unions Nov. 14, several thousand people demonstrated outside 150 U.S. Postal Service facilities in all 50 states to protest job cuts, outsourcing and other union-busting measures — as well as to defend the basic mail service that working people above all depend…

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Letter to the Editor: Common-sense changes needed for USPS

I read with interest your editorial about the current Senate bill to reform the postal service (Los Angeles Times editorial, “Fixing the ailing Postal Service,” Nov. 21). The editorial omits mention of major portions of the bill including the reformation of the federal workers’ compensation program, which is best handled outside postal reform legislation and…

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Updating Our Understanding of the FMLA – An Employers’ Legal Perspective

In employment law, a very hot topic continues to be the issues surrounding the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) which entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee…

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