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Re:USPS is falsifying safety docs as its workers die of heat by entropicdrifter on Friday October 13, 2023 @03:49PM (#37874783)
>Naturally, in a country with a deep history of skepticism of centralized government authority, people don't view public-sector unions very favorably.

This feels contradictory to the sentiment in the preceding statement at first glance. If the people are generally skeptical of centralized government authority, why would they also be skeptical of unions who push back against that centralized authority, as opposed to seeing themselves as on the same side?

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Re:USPS is falsifying safety docs as its workers die of heat by klyrs on Friday October 13, 2023 @06:28PM (#37876313)
As I understand it, it's the rank-and-file "unelected" government employees that are perceived as the real problem. And all government spending is always bad. And unions are commie pinko bastards. And taxes are always bad. Add it all up, and government employee unions are corruption on corruption, fighting to screw the voter out of their tax dollars.
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