
Postal Workers Rally in Frankfort
Clip: Season 3 Episode 211 | 3m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
Postal workers in Kentucky say they're worried the service could be privatized.
Postal workers across the U.S. held a day of action on Thursday. They say President Trump is eyeing their jobs and could disrupt the mailing service the nation relies on. The USPS is an independent agency that is struggling financially. The Postmaster General says he'll work with Elon Musk's DOGE to make agency cuts, convincing some postal workers in Kentucky to show up at the state capitol.
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Postal Workers Rally in Frankfort
Clip: Season 3 Episode 211 | 3m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
Postal workers across the U.S. held a day of action on Thursday. They say President Trump is eyeing their jobs and could disrupt the mailing service the nation relies on. The USPS is an independent agency that is struggling financially. The Postmaster General says he'll work with Elon Musk's DOGE to make agency cuts, convincing some postal workers in Kentucky to show up at the state capitol.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipIn other news, postal workers across the US today held their day of action.
They say President Donald Trump is eyeing their jobs and could disrupt the mailing service the nation relies on.
The USPS is an independent, though financially struggling agency.
Trump has suggested the Department of Commerce take it over or hand off America's mail service to private businesses.
Last week, the postmaster general said he would work with Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge, to make agency cuts.
All that convinced Kentucky's postal workers to show up at the state capitol in Frankfort.
U.S. mail is not for sale.
U.S. mails not for sale.
U.S. officials say the United States Postal Service has been enshrined in the Constitution.
We are 250 years old.
We're going to celebrate in July.
They want to privatize here.
The post office, and we want to make sure that doesn't get done.
There's 190, 169 million addresses we deliver to.
And if they were to privatize, you wouldn't get that.
These private companies, they would come out and they would only do what is profitable for them.
So those people in the rural areas or further out, they would have to come and get their mail.
That is not what we do.
We are the public.
We are the United States Postal Service.
We are not a business.
And that is what we're here to do.
Let the people know that the once again USPS not for sale.
And the post office belongs to the people and not to billionaires who do sales on sale.
You have sales, not sale.
Look, everybody, it has a government job.
It's under threat right now.
Yeah.
So we have to pull together and we have to keep fighting.
All forms of labor need to fight for all our brothers and sisters.
Yeah.
And that's why we're here today.
Because we want to fight with our brothers and sisters.
We want to.
We want to carry the fight to Washington, D.C.. We want to carry the fight to Frankfort, Kentucky.
We want to carry the fight to the City Hall.
Look, if we don't do it, it ain't going to get done.
That's right.
So we got to stick together and fight together.
Elections have consequences.
Remember that.
Always remember that.
Don't let them divide you on social issues and other things like that.
It's about paychecks and what makes our families go.
I mean, they're coming in.
They're not taking any time whatsoever.
They're going for it right now.
But we're still within the first 100 days.
That's my immediate concern.
That's why we're having a national day of action nationwide.
About 10,000 postal workers are leaving the agency.
They're taking an early retirement offer, which came about before Trump took office.
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