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The NC State AFL-CIO website states its opinion:
Tell USPS mgmt what you think at public hearing
Western North Carolina CLC President, Mark Case, APWU, is sounding the alarm about a plan by U.S. Postal Service management to close a major facility in Asheville, move operations to another state, and eliminate as many as 200 good-paying, middle-class jobs in Western North Carolina. The plan will be subject to public input at a hearing on November 21...
Despite what you may have heard, the U.S. Postal Service isn’t broke, nor is it losing money because of costs associated with delivering the service management is threatening to take away from Western North Carolina. Rather, the billion-dollar losses reported by our corporate media were caused by Congress, and Congress can easily fix them without eliminating six day delivery or closing facilities. Learn more at http://www.saveamericaspostalservice.org/.
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Thanks to Gordon Smith for the heads up on this story.
Tell USPS mgmt what you think at public hearing
Western North Carolina CLC President, Mark Case, APWU, is sounding the alarm about a plan by U.S. Postal Service management to close a major facility in Asheville, move operations to another state, and eliminate as many as 200 good-paying, middle-class jobs in Western North Carolina. The plan will be subject to public input at a hearing on November 21...
Despite what you may have heard, the U.S. Postal Service isn’t broke, nor is it losing money because of costs associated with delivering the service management is threatening to take away from Western North Carolina. Rather, the billion-dollar losses reported by our corporate media were caused by Congress, and Congress can easily fix them without eliminating six day delivery or closing facilities. Learn more at http://www.saveamericaspostalservice.org/.
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Thanks to Gordon Smith for the heads up on this story.
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