{"id":36578,"date":"2025-03-20T16:23:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/not-for-sale-usps-workers-hold-day-of-action-to-warn-of-trumps-illegal-takeover\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:23:49","slug":"not-for-sale-usps-workers-hold-day-of-action-to-warn-of-trumps-illegal-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/not-for-sale-usps-workers-hold-day-of-action-to-warn-of-trumps-illegal-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not for sale\u2019: USPS workers hold day of action to warn of Trump\u2019s \u2018illegal takeover\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees brace for president to transfer or privatize Postal Service, which they say will slash jobs and boost prices<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never miss global breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1jb08op7\">Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/us-postal-service\">US Postal Service<\/a> workers and advocates are holding a day of action today in more than 150 cities as they brace for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> to launch an \u201cillegal hostile takeover\u201d which they warn will slash jobs, boost prices and shut down post offices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s officials are weighing plans to transfer the USPS to the Department of Commerce, stripping it of its independence. The president and his allies have also signaled they are willing to privatize the service.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/mar\/20\/usps-postal-service-trump-protest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees brace for president to transfer or privatize Postal Service, which they say will slash jobs and boost prices Never miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time. US Postal Service workers and advocates are holding a day of action today in more than 150 cities &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Not for sale\u2019: USPS workers hold day of action to warn of Trump\u2019s \u2018illegal takeover\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/not-for-sale-usps-workers-hold-day-of-action-to-warn-of-trumps-illegal-takeover\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Not for sale\u2019: USPS workers hold day of action to warn of Trump\u2019s \u2018illegal takeover\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}