public sector

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/28/2022
  

  The Think Tank Trying to Defund Public Sector Unions

  Labor historian Lane Windham describes a well-funded effort to encourage union members to opt out of paying dues, a strategy designed to force their unions to do more with less. Organizing to recruit new members and energize existing ones is the way to fight back. 

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• SOURCE: WESA
  8/17/2020
  

  USPS Not Meant To Be A Revenue Generator But A 'Public Asset,' Says Historian (audio)

  Postal historian Richard John says that the USPS is not a business and should be treated as a public resource.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/18/2020
  

  Cutting Back the U.S. Postal Service would Hurt the Lifeblood of Democracy

  by Richard R. John and Joseph Turow

  Despite its impressive track record, the Postal Service has become a target for free market think tanks convinced that corporate America could run the USPS better than the government. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/11/2020
  

  Trump’s Attack on the Postal Service Is a Threat to Democracy—and to Rural America

  You’d think that the Republican Party, which depends on the undue weight given to rural voters for its continued political life, would be particularly solicitous of the post office. But, at the higher reaches, its ideological preoccupations are stronger: the post office is a government service, and therefore bad; it should be run instead by people who can make money from it.