The cuts to rural carriers’ wages are part of a vast restructuring of the Post Office under Postmaster Louis DeJoy, who intends to close thousands of local post offices and lay off 50,000 employees to transform the public corporation into a profitable Amazon-style delivery system.
Rural letter carrier in the US discusses management attack on workers’ conditions: “People need to know that they have a voice”
The new method of calculating pay for rural letter carriers, whose salaries have been reduced by $20,000 or more for some, is arguably the greatest wage theft in US history.