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Veterans Preference and MSPB

(Excerpt from the September/October 2003 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)

The Merit System Protection Board clearly is ruling more often in favor of the Postal Service and against veterans' rights.

The problem is in part because the board is dominated by appointments made by the current administration.

A quick review of this administration's appointed President's Commission on the U.S. Postal Service shows that our nation's executive branch believes that management should be worshipped as the all-knowing power, and that workers should be subservient.

We have moved our battles for veterans' rights to the Court of Appeals and hope this administration's appointees don't dominate that forum as well. Although we have sought the support of major veterans' groups, few have joined our cause thus far. I'm not ready to throw away my membership in these organizations, yet I am wondering just what it is they stand for.

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