Unless stopped by the working class, this will lead to tens of thousands of job cuts, more facility closures and the end of USPS as a public service.
The bill would “stipulate that provisions of public sector union Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) can be terminated by an incoming President,” according to a summary posted on a congressional website.
A deep anger and concern over Trump’s bid for dictatorship was a constant at every rally Thursday, with many veterans of the 1970 national wildcat strike taking part.
Urgent action is required by the working class to halt the attacks on postal workers, up to and including strike action.
The fight against Trump’s bid for dictatorship must be combined with a fight to free the working class from the grip of the corrupt union officials and the Democratic Party, who are complicit in Trump’s attacks on the working class.
“Everyone is very aware that this is a provocation aimed at demoralizing us,” one federal worker told the WSWS. “We won't let it work.”
In attempting to reconcile how one can be both “progressive” and prepared to work with fascists, they are compelled to distort what the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote on the unions.
Among postal workers, there is growing interest in Sunday’s rank-and-file public meeting, “Mobilize the working class to save the US Postal Service and other federal programs!”
Taking control of USPS would be the first step in Trump’s plan to dismantle USPS entirely and privatize it, while also giving him direct access to the sensitive personal communications such as tax returns and mail-in ballots.
Under the proposed agreement which dockworkers will vote on next Tuesday, they will have to “out-perform” new technology in exchange for keeping their jobs, ILA President Harold Daggett declared in a video statement.
That ballots for a postal contract are being affected by delays underscores that the USPS is under massive assault, which the contract would only continue and deepen.
Rather than exposing exposing the real class interests behind Trump’s right-wing populism and preparing workers for a struggle against the new administration, the pseudo-left is doing everything to downplay the unions’ embrace of Trump.
The bureaucracy is trying prevent an open conflict between dockworkers and the incoming fascist administration.
The potential of a new strike next week, only five days before the inauguration of Donald Trump, underscores the enormous class conflict which will erupt under the fascist administration.
This is the latest hub to be closed since the passage of the new Teamsters contract in 2023, which union officials falsely described as a "historic" victory.
The basic task of our time is the expropriation of United Healthcare and other major corporations by the working class in a socialist revolution, not “vengeance” against individual executives. Marxists oppose individual violence because it runs directly counter to this, replacing the action of the class with the action of desperate, angry individuals.
Amazon workers must insist that their strike not be limited in advance by the Teamsters to only three days, which severely limits its impact during the height of the holiday shopping season. Instead, the strike must be guided by a strategy worked out and democratically enforced from below by workers, through rank-and-file committees made up of representatives from every Amazon facility.
The same president who has promised to deploy the military to deport undocumented immigrants and even their citizen relatives will use similar ruthless methods against the working class, against whom such measures are ultimately aimed.
The deal is almost identical to one workers rejected in October, with union president Tony Cardwell arrogantly claiming in a Zoom call there was “zero chance” of better wage increases.
The event, hosted by Times writer Aaron Ross Sorkin, exposes whatever is left of the newspaper’s pretension to be the voice of American “liberalism,” as opposed to a voice of the American oligarchy.
