Brentwood: First under attack from Fort Detrick anthrax and now from downsizing and outsourcing.

Aug. 8, 2006 -- U.S. Postal Service employees of the Brentwood postal facility (now called the Curseen-Morris Mail Processing and Distribution Center) in Washington, DC, victims of the first biological weapons attack in the United States in 2001, now face additional attacks -- by the senior management of the U.S. Postal Service, including GOP political hack Postmaster General John Potter. According to Brentwood sources, the jobs of the current Brentwood employees are being threatened by an administration bent on privatizing the US Postal Service. Clerk jobs at Brentwood are being transferred to postal facilities as far away as Richmond and Philadelphia, a hardship for longtime residents of the Washington, DC area. Postal service drivers are finding their jobs being outsourced to contract drivers and maintenance workers are being downsized. Postal service management is also dragging its feet on implementing safety measures at Brentwood designed to prevent a repeat of the deaths resulting from the 2001 anthrax mailings.
Brentwood postal employees are also on the receiving end of "aggressive discipline" for speaking out about the changes that are affecting their employment and personal safety. Meanwhile, this coming November will represent the fifth anniversary of the anthrax attacks and resulting postal employee deaths at Brentwood. Plans for a memorial have received no support from either the Postal Service or the Bush administration. Evidence points to the U.S. Army's illegal biological weapons laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland as the source for the anthrax used in the attacks. Brentwood: First under attack from Fort Detrick anthrax and now from downsizing and outsourcing.

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