Congressman Ross And GOP: Reducing USPS Workforce Should Be Primary Focus

Dennis Ross, a Tea-Party backed candidate for Congress admitted during a Washington Post interview earlier this year that he knows little about the federal workforce.

For Republicans on the subcommittee in particular, this meant significant reductions in the USPS workforce.

Congressman Dennis Ross, the chairman of the subcommittee, said in his opening remarks to the hearing that modifying pre-funding requirements for USPS retiree pension and benefit funds “do not address the long-term systemic problems and solvency issues” the Postal Service faced.

He said work force reductions had to be the “primary focus” of the Postal Service, its unions and Congress to improve financial stability.

And, noting that negotiations between the Postal Service and its unions were currently underway, he added that in his opinion it was not enough to cut staff numbers by attrition and early retirements.

“These efforts simply have not resulted in the changes necessary to maintain a self-funding Postal Service,” the Congressman from Florida said. “Realigning the work force by re-examining labor agreements must be part of the strategy to improve the Postal Service fiscal foundations.”

But Issa said his priority was to see that the 15,000 USPS workers over the age of 65 who he said were on disability and therefore unable to work should no longer be claiming salaries.

“If you can no longer do the job and are over 65 there is a reasonable expectation that your status will change and you will not be counted among the active members of the Postal system,” said the Congressman from California.

Congressmen call for job-cutting priority at USPS

22 thoughts on “Congressman Ross And GOP: Reducing USPS Workforce Should Be Primary Focus

  1. “”If craft employees didn’t continually prove they require supervision we would have less.””

    Oh seriously do you really believe that? When management treats employees like children do you expect them to act like anything less. I am maintenance on tour 3 in 010 and I am left alone because I keep the machines humming. I figure the better they run the less supervision I will have to deal with. Once the operations supervisor didn’t show and it was around 21:00 before the MDO realized she was not there. Too funny! The mail got out out without the overpaid babysitter!

  2. USPS IS TOO TOP HEAVY AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WHERE I WORK IN THE BATON ROUGE AREA, THEY ARE STILL PROMOTING SUPERVISORS/204Bs. WE DO NOT NEED THEM! WE DON’T NEED (OR WANT) THE MAJORITY OF THEM AS IT IS NOW! THEY MAKE THE MOST MONEY AND DO THE LEAST AMOUNT OF WORK! COME ON THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE, DO THE MATH! LIKE MS FAYE SAID IN HER COMMENT ON MARCH 3RD, IT IS NOT THE LIGHT/LIMITED DUTY EMPLOYEES THAT ARE THE PROBLEM, IT IS MANAGEMENT! IT IS TIME THEY GET WHAT THEY DESERVE. AS WE NOW ARE ALL NOW SEEING,WE DO NOT WANT NOR NEED THEM SO GET RID OF (AND DO NOT JUST MOVE THEM AROUND FROM FACILITY TO FACILITY AND ATTEMPT TO HIDE THEM ) THE EXCESS, IGNORANT MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL THAT HAVE USPS IN THE SHAPE IT IS IN. DO IT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE TO SAVE THE USPS!

  3. the usps has 3 supervisors and a manager covering 15 employees. usps is very top heavy. eliminate all those supervisors first as planned. usps should offer a decent incentive and not that 15k they gave last time. usps should offer 1 year salary and give it in one lump sum and there will be no csrs employees and they would be free to use casuals and part time flexs with lower salary and no benefits. the auto industry gave their employees a year salary and a 25k voucher for a new car. why can’t the postal workers be given a bailout as well. the public doesn’t know the crappy hours we work and how much of special family moments we miss . we sacrifice a lot to make an average salary. yet the public think 50k a year is gold. we miss pta meetings , thanksgiving dinner, christmas dinner, holiday gatherings special school events for our children because of our work schedule. we work no matter what the weather conditions 24/7. congress please stop playing games and be fair to us too.

  4. Seems like the one’s who gave the $5.5 million retirement package should get the boot as well. We are not A.IG.,how did this happen?.

  5. Where exactly does Congressman Ross expect the job cuts to come from? 15,000 workers over sixty five on disability, if true, should be removed from the payrolls. Mail processing equiptment designed for three operators is rountinely operated by one employee.

    The postal service uses a management system in which managers can promote themselves by creating more supervisor positions, it is contrary to their economic interest to reduce supervisor positions. It is interesting to note that , the USPS has a higher level of supervision than ANY STATE requires for day care centers.

  6. Where exactly does Congressman Ross expect the job cuts to come from? 15,000 workers over sixty five on disability, if true, should be removed from the payrolls. Mail processing eqiptment designed for three operators are rountinely operated by one employee.

    The postal service uses a management system in which managers can promote themselves by creating more supervisor positions, thus it is contrary to their economic interest to reduce supervisor positions. It is interesting to note that , the USPS has a higher level of supervision than ANY STATE requires for day care centers.

  7. Dennis Ross— Another jack ass neo-con posing as a tea partier. “I don’t know anything about dynamite but if I push this plunger I pretty sure nothing will happen”. ” Last week I coodn’t spel congresmon and now I are one”.

  8. FDR and George Meany were right. Unions can’t survive in the government realm.
    Taxpayers want a fair days work for a fair days pay and that don’t happen at the PO.

  9. Sirs, The postal financial problems start and end with Congress stealing their money. First, as Donohoe said they pass a law that takes, unnecessarily, 45.5 billion from postal profits every year. Every actuary in the country would say that this is a poor business practice. Then, It was found, and confirmed by independent audits, that the Treasury has been overcharging the Post Office for its contribution to the federal retirement programs for 40 years! Was the accountant in Treasury fired? As this was confirmed, Congress decided NOT ot give the money it owed the Post Office back. If you ever want to see a clear case of fraud, this is it.
    Where does Congress get off NOT returning m0ney it has illegaling taken from the Post Office ? ? ?

    I seems to me that we need a NEW CONGRESS not a new Post Office.

  10. The mission: CHEAP LABOR and BAD BEHAVIOR. Like Nazi Germany and the antebellum South.
    The powers that be have spoken. They want all Unions destroyed. They want wages low and returns high. Nevermind that USPS isn’t supposed to generate a profit. UPS is unionized (Fedex isn’t). When they destroy us they will come for them.

  11. Since the good Congressman from Florida admits he has little knowledge in regard to Federal Workers, maybe he should SHUT THE F— UP AND DO HIS HOMEWORK. OR MAYBE JUST FIND ANOTHER LINE OF WORK. UNION BUSTING IS OUR BIGGEST ISSUE HERE!!! UNITE!!!

  12. the tea-party came to Washington to slash the budget. the first thing they do is pass bush tax cuts and add 700 billion to the deficit.

    hypocrits

  13. everyone was laughing at the lite/limited duty people calling them lazy slugs, get rid of em. i was telling people it was against the contract and be careful because once they got rid of the lite/limited duty people others were next. boy was i ever right. the p.o. ignored the contract once and they will do it again. people came online and said they should all go work at wally world (whatever that is) now i hope the people that were that adamant about kicking people out of their jobs are now worried their office/plant will shut down they will get that excess letter their lives will be turned completely upside down. doesn’t feel so good does it. not funny is it. don’t feel like you deserve it do you. still blaming lite/limited duty people for the postal demise. still blame lazy coworkers. all the BS management has been feeding you you repeat it like parrots and soak up all that noise like a dry sponge put in a bucket of water. the post office is like any company that spent high when the times were good and now they don’t have that money coming in and they are paying the cost of overspending. too much real estate, to many NEW homes, high pay requirements, (now the contract is a problem and employees are a problem) (not MANAGEMENT still the absolute losers they always were) and if any of you are the workers who get the mail from point A to point B for delivery you know the postal service is working you like a slave to get that mail there for those of you who don’t know how that mail gets there you ought be ashamed of yourself complaining about it when you have absolutely no idea what is involved you just want to complain to hear your own yacking. the post office is swishing down a fast moving toilet and it has nothing to do with the employees it has everything to do with management but we are being made to be the scapegoats and our coworkers are making it easy to argue the point with all their bitching. i have enough time to go and god bless those of you that don’t get your finances ready now because you will be getting screwed and for those of you who laughed at the lite/limited duty people karma is a bitch.

  14. BOHICA Means bend over here it comes again!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO glad I am OLD
    for the first time in MY life. Retire soon. I pray for this country and the unions,
    off to the sweat shops of the twenties. Its not just US, its the NEW WORLD ORDER! Stock up on fisheads and rice and dump the cars…. OR we can pull a Egypt or Libiya on thier asses????? Before they take our guns away!!!! Rocks dont cut it!!!!!!!!!

  15. When people think of postal employees, they generally think of letter carriers or retail clerks. How does mail get from station to delivery point ? Its the tens of thousands of people who work 2nd or 3rd shifts whose days off , even after 20 or more year are Tuesday/Wednesday or if you are lucky, Monday/Tuesday. It took me 25 years to get day work and Saturday/Friday. Yippee. Getting drafted to work holidays like Thanksgiving, New Years, and this year Christmas day, for what, to be told I’m overpaid and underworked !! Give me a break. Fed-ex and UPS, both union workers. The difference, we provide universal delivery. We’re quasi gov’t, we have to. We aren’t allowed to make a profit. Can’t buy stock in USPS. No profit, No dividend, No IPO. All you geniuses who want to privatize P.O. Go ahead. Don’t complain when you need to drive 20 miles paying $4 per gal. to pick up mail from centralized location because Fed-ex and UPS decided it wasn’t profitable to deliver to your house.

  16. dennis ross should examine his annual salary, benefits, and many perks, this would be enough to pay the salary of 5 postal workers (labor). until people become honest with themselves and stop worrying about kissing-up to the people in power and being spineless yes men and get to the root of the problems such as all the money lining politicians pockets we are going to continue to decline as a nation!!

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