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- MOVEMENT AND UNION ENDORSEMENTS ON POSTAL REFORM - February 8, 2017
There May Finally Be a Breakthrough in the Long Fight for Postal Reform
By Eric Katz, Government Executive
The four major unions representing U.S. Postal Service employees have all thrown their support behind a renewed effort to overhaul the agency, providing what supporters are calling a “watershed event” in the drawn-out battle for reform.
Lawmakers expressed broad bipartisan support for the 2017 Postal Reform Act at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing Tuesday, saying the time has long since passed for Congress to act on USPS’ behalf. Republicans on the committee and witnesses at the hearing said reform is urgent, arguing that doing nothing would result in a taxpayer-funded bailout of the mailing agency.
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