working under old contract. The "early outs" are over and sure they can reduce the "non-career" employees- though they prefer them to anyone vested higher on the pay scale. DOGE is in there and ready to screw anything, possibly killing the golden goose before they sell it as a package only cash cow. Despite the law, despite the popularity of the institution, despite logic and all. And we had our "illegal" strike at a time when we had tons more power over the economy(the only one recognized, the banking industry). It's a potential mess, but even the most optimistic will see a contract degradation someway or other and a continuation of "new" supercenters that might be kind of doomed from past performance. At least I have not seen this many scenarios for failure packed into one super-river of constant mail flow before. I don't think our union has made people appreciate the results of even a few more supercenters swallowing up whole regions.
My father was a union leader during this strike and when they met with Nixon. It was our high water mark and genuinely modest in its stand for justice, in dealing with the Man. Years later, when discussing the downward trajectory and growing evil of the GOP, he stood by the inherent strength of the standoff between labor and the owners. I didn't see, and he couldn't respond about: yes they would go extremely far because they had to by their nature and their goals. I assumed it might be by military dictatorship, before the rise of the rich man monarchs. We still might get there by default.
I will only breathe tiny bit easier IF the rule of law gets reasserted somewhere. It certainly doesn't seem to concern corporate echelons.
As it is, kiss your Post Office good-bye and pay what you can to get what you need. The privatization example of other countries are tame, non-applicable comparisons to what will happen here. I doubt any postal unions will survive this in any form.
Just a few Stock Market scams, then poof.
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