Postal Workers: The Last Union

Allison Kilkenny, Truthout: "The recent attacks against the United States Postal Service (USPS) are more than signs of desperate times - a natural sunset moment for a service rendered archaic by FedEx and UPS. Rather, the Postal Service has been under constant, vicious assault for years from the right, who views this as an epic battle with the goal of finally taking down the strongest union in the country, the second-largest employer in the United States (second only to Walmart) and a means to roll the country ever closer toward the abyss of privatization.Truthout