The postmaster general is facing scrutiny for bragging about how he has nearly fully unionized the agency while running up an unsustainable budget deficit.
Louis DeJoy recently said he was aiming for a “unionized operation … 100% unionized,” according to a report picked up by Postal Times and Americans for Tax Reform.
In the initial report from reporter Matthew Foldi, he also questioned why he wasn’t getting more credit for the union hires. Speaking last month to the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee, DeJoy said, “I was actually with our supervisors union yesterday, and I said, ‘Comrades, how come you’re not celebrating me?’”
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He added that a goal is to “in source” jobs that had been outsourced.
Allies of President-elect Donald Trump passed around his comments this week, concerned that they did not fit with the new administration’s goals to cut costs and staff.
DeJoy was hired during the first Trump administration and kept on during the Biden administration because of his pro-union stance, according to ATR’s report.
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The agency reported on Thursday a loss of $9.5 billion, $3 billion more than last year. Reuters reported that in a statement about its restructuring plan, USPS said, “If we do nothing more, we remain on the path to either a government bailout or the end of this great organization as we know it.”
DeJoy, however, expressed optimism that the plan will cure the agency’s fiscal ailments.