Memo to APWU: Get Real
What’s up with the American Postal Workers Union?
Here’s an organization that’s supposed to secure the long-term best interests of a key sector of the U.S. Postal Service’s work force. Yet nary a week goes by without something showing up in the media reflecting a union that’s hell-bent on ensuring its members’ extinction.
To the best of my knowledge, the APWU never has said it believes the USPS should be operated as cost-efficiently as possible to best serve the needs of the American people. What you do hear is a seemingly endless litany of what it opposes.
The APWU opposes work sharing as a way for mailers to add value to their business. It’s against efforts by the postal service to better align its network with available resources and changing needs. It resists postal reform.
But it not only opposes
