'Claims that Biden can't do anything to oust DeJoy are misleading,' said one watchdog group.
"Additionally, numerous post office locations are set to be shuttered under his 10-year restructuring plan, potentially impacting thousands of employees during a time of economic crisis," the groups wrote."After DeJoy's numerous failings at the helm, it is imperative that we have a strong, full, and reform-oriented Postal Board of Governors in place to hold him accountable to the true mission and public service goals of the USPS.
"This is one of the last opportunities your administration has to appoint governors to the postal board," they added.50,000 positions from the Postal Service in the coming years, an effort that the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union condemned and vowed to fight. "If it's management's intent to weaken our union, attack our pay and conditions, or eliminate family-sustaining union postal jobs, the [postmaster general] will get a strong fight from the APWU," Mark Dimondstein, the union's president,"We will oppose future job reductions that affect the lives of the postal workers we represent," Dimondstein added."Rest assured that any such management actions will be met with [the] unbridled opposition of the APWU.
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