The USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee is holding an online public meeting this Sunday at 3pm US Eastern Time, “Stop Trump’s moves to privatize USPS! Oppose the illegitimate NALC contract!”
To register for the event, click here.
An arbitrator this week imposed a contract on over 200,000 letter carriers that is virtually identical to the one we rejected by 70 percent earlier this year. The new deal was reached through “binding arbitration,” denying us even the right to vote. This anti-democratic process has handed the Trump administration and its corporate allies a major weapon to accelerate the destruction of the US Postal Service.
This is part of a far-reaching offensive of the Trump administration against the working class. With the support and complicity of the union bureaucracy, Trump is gutting federal jobs and preparing mass privatization. Just days before the contract was imposed, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy signed a deal with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to help slash USPS spending—setting the stage for layoffs, closures and the final dismantling of the public mail system.
The union apparatus is playing a central role in facilitating this attack. NALC President Brian Renfroe has openly supported the corporate “Delivering for America” plan, refused to organize any fight, and now hails the imposed contract’s pathetic wage increases as a “win.” Meanwhile, the government workers’ unions are doing nothing in the face of mass layoffs, while the apparatus at the UAW and other unions is collaborating with Trump and openly supporting his fascistic policy of economic nationalism.
This meeting will lay out a strategy to fight back. It will discuss the formation of a network of rank-and-file committees—independent of the union bureaucracy and capitalist political parties—to prepare action from below. USPS workers must link up with other sections of the federal workforce, with auto workers, logistics workers, and other sections of the working class, and with postal workers internationally facing the same threat of privatization.