The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee met today to mark-up S. 1507. The amendments target arbitration and executive bonuses and USPS borrowing. According to Postcom.org: The following amendments were adopted to S. 1507 Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Funding Reform Act of 2009 on July 29, 2009 at the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs […]
APWU News Amendments to a Senate bill providing short-term temporary financial relief to the USPS would weaken the legislation, harm the Postal Service, and hurt postal workers, APWU Legislative and Political Director Myke Reid said. He urged union members to contact their senators if they serve on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs […]
Press Release – The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) asking it to investigate charges made by a Nashua-area postal worker who discovered his annual union membership dues were illegally diverted into the union’s political action committee (PAC).In July 2006, United States Postal […]
GAO Press Release Reporting that broad restructuring is urgently needed, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today added the financial condition of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to its High-Risk List of federal areas in need of transformation. “There are serious and significant structural financial challenges currently facing the Postal Service. New technology is profoundly […]
USPS Board of Governors Meetings Board Votes To Close July 21, 2009, Meeting In person and by telephone vote on July 21, 2009, a majority of the members contacted and voting, the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service voted unanimously to close to public observation its meeting held in Washington, DC […]
APWU News Quick action is expected on a Senate bill that would provide the Postal Service emergency, short-term financial relief, and APWU President William Burrus is urging union members to ask their Senators to support the legislation. The Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Funding Reform Act of 2009 (S. 1507), which was introduced by Sen. Tom […]
The newest addition to the Postal Service’s fleet of hybrid electric delivery vehicles — a 2-ton hybrid electric van — will be tested later this summer in Long Island, NY. The vehicle — a combined effort of Azure Dynamics, Morgan Olson, Boyer Ford Truck Sales and Ford Motor Company — will join 30 other Azure […]
Federal retirees who have grown accustomed to cost-of-living adjustments each and every January are in for a rude awakening when they get their first benefit payment in 2010. So what’s likely to happen? Nothing. That is, no increase at all. A no-cal COLA! Monthly payments to the millions under Social Security, federal civil service or […]
WASHINGTON – ( Julu 23, 2009) Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) today introduced legislation to help address the dire financial situation facing the United States Postal Service. Sen. Carper, as chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees the postal service, has been closely monitoring its deteriorating financial condition and has been seeking way to keep […]
From the Federal Times: An amendment to the Defense authorization bill containing several federal employee benefits, including the FERS sick leave credit, was withdrawn Thursday. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., an outspoken critic of what he deems unnecessary federal spending, said he planned to talk on the Senate floor Thursday until cloture — a vote to […]