华盛顿——一个代表美国邮政工人的主要工会已经支持民主党人乔·拜登竞选总统，这一举动是在他就任总统之后唐纳德·特朗普已经承认邮政服务资金短缺，这使得在11月的选举中邮寄选票更加困难。
代表30万在职和退休工人的全国邮递员协会周四表示，特朗普长期以来一直敌视邮局。他的政府呼吁终止集体谈判权，提议削减服务，并考虑将该机构的职能私有化的可能性。
但自大流行开始以来，这些行动已经升级，政府采取了“公众视线之外的步骤，以破坏邮政服务和信件承运人，说:”
另一方面，罗兰多在一份声明中表示，拜登“现在是、过去是、将来也将继续是美国邮政服务的坚定盟友和捍卫者。”
特朗普一再谴责这一建议，即由于流感大流行，更多人应该通过邮件投票。他认为，不提供证据将导致广泛的选民欺诈。尽管特朗普自己通过邮件投票，但随着民主党人倡导通过邮件投票，邮局越来越成为他的对手。
该机构的新领导人、前供应链首席执行官、特朗普和其他共和党人的主要捐助者、邮政局长路易·德约伊(Louis DeJoy)推动了削减成本的措施，以取消加班工资，并在邮政配送中心运营延迟的情况下，将邮件保留到第二天。
最近邮件投递出现了严重的延误。
在福克斯商业网的一次采访中，特朗普明确指出了民主党人在国会山停滞不前的冠状病毒救助计划中寻求的两项资助条款。他说，如果没有额外的资金，邮政服务将没有资源来处理来自选民的大量选票，这些选民在冠状病毒大流行期间试图避开投票站。
特朗普告诉主持人玛利亚·巴蒂罗姆:“如果我们不达成协议，那就意味着他们拿不到钱。”“这意味着他们不能进行普遍的邮寄投票;他们就是不能拥有它。”
特朗普对邮政服务的敌意升温，引起了他的前任巴拉克奥巴马(Barack Obama)的关注。奥巴马表示，这是一位总统为保护自己的连任机会而做出的前所未有的努力。
“共和党人在做什么?你们如此害怕人民投票，以至于现在你们愿意破坏美国生活基础设施的一部分?”奥巴马在前竞选经理大卫·普劳夫主持的竞选总部播客上说。“我的意思是，这就相当于‘我们不打算修高速公路，因为人们可能会开车去投票站……所以我们就让州际公路中间的巨大天坑继续存在，因为我们担心人们可能会用这些道路来投票’。”"
邮递员联盟是代表邮政工人的几个组织之一，该组织表示，在宣布支持之前，已经咨询了会员。美国邮政工人联盟此前曾在6月支持拜登。
工会主席罗兰多说:“不能让邮政服务失败。”" NALC很自豪能在11月及以后与副总统拜登和参议员哈里斯站在一起."
Major US postal workers union endorses Biden for president
WASHINGTON -- A major union representing U.S. postal workers has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president, a move that comes as PresidentDonald Trumphas acknowledged starving the postal service of money in order to make it more difficult to vote by mail in November's election.
The National Association of Letter Carriers, which represents 300,000 current and retired workers, said Thursday that Trump has long been hostile to the Post Office. His administration has called for an end to collective bargaining rights, proposed service cuts and has eyed the possibility of privatizing the functions of the agency.
But those actions have escalated since the start of the pandemic, with the administration taking “steps outside of the public eye to undermine the Postal Service and letter carriers,” said union President Fredric Rolando.
Biden, on the other hand, “is – was – and will continue to be – a fierce ally and defender of the United States Postal Service,” Rolando said in a statement announcing the endorsement of the former vice president and his running mate, Kamala Harris.
Trump has repeatedly railed against the suggestion that more people should vote by mail as a result of the pandemic, which he argues without offering evidence will lead to widespread voter fraud. While Trump casts his own ballot by mail, the post office has increasingly been in his cross-hairs as Democrats advocate voting by mail.
The agency’s new leader, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a former supply-chain CEO and a major donor to Trump and other Republicans, has pushed cost-cutting measures to eliminate overtime pay and hold mail until the next day if postal distribution centers are running late.
And recently there have been substantial mail delivery delays.
In an interview on Fox Business Network, Trump explicitly noted two funding provisions that Democrats are seeking in a coronavirus relief package that has stalled on Capitol Hill. Without the additional money, he said, the Postal Service won’t have the resources to handle a flood of ballots from voters who are seeking to avoid polling places during the coronavirus pandemic.
“If we don’t make a deal, that means they don’t get the money,” Trump told host Maria Bartiromo. “That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting; they just can’t have it.”
Trump's ramped up animosity toward the postal service drew the attention of his predecessor, Barack Obama, who said it amounted to an unprecedented effort by a president to “ kneecap the postal service” to protect his reelection chances.
“What are Republicans doing where you are so scared of people voting, that you are now willing to undermine what is part of the basic infrastructure of American life?” Obama said on the Campaign HQ podcast, which is hosted by his former campaign manager David Plouffe. “I mean, it’d be the equivalent of ‘We’re not going to repair highways because people might drive to the polling places…so we’ll just let massive sinkholes in the middle of, uh, the interstate linger, because we’re worried that folks might use those roads to vote.’"
The letter carriers union, which is one of several representing postal workers, said it consulted with its members before announcing the endorsement. The American Postal Workers Union previously endorsed Biden in June.
“The Postal Service must not be allowed to fail,” Rolando, the union president, said. “NALC is proud to stand with Vice President Biden and Senator Harris in November and beyond.”
