Postal Worker Union Mutiny Imperils USPS Chief's Agenda

U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe now has another problem: a new cadre of employee union leaders who are more stridently opposed to his efforts than their predecessors. The American Postal Workers Union, which represents 220,000 USPS employees, said insurgent candidate Mark Dimondstein had defeated incumbent President Cliff Guffey in a race that the union itself described as “hotly contested.”

Dimondstein received 26,965 votes, Guffey 21,007. Six other members of Dimondstein’s Members First Team were elected along with their leader. Dimondstein and his running mates have called for Donahoe’s ouster, accusing him of trying to “destroy” the USPS. They have promised