With the big election in Wisconsin, there’s another big Labor v. GOP fight — this time in Ohio.
One point that came up repeatedly in our discussion last night about the crisis in the postal service is that the USPS is apparently subject to a regulation that requires it to pre-pay pension and health care obligations 75 years in advance, something that is required of no other government agency. And a substantial amount of their budget shortfall is tied to that regulation.
TPM Reader SM notes these points …
As a union organizer for SEIU, I have a distinctly labor perspective on the USPS crisis; and, I think that there are two HUGE pieces of information that are often left out of the “The USPS is an aging dinosaur” narrative often perpetuated by the mainstream media.
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