NALC: April 12 Demonstrations to Save America’s Postal Service

On April 12, the National Association of Letter Carriers will hold “Save America’s Postal Service” demonstrations outside of Senate offices across the country. They are designed to put pressure on each senator to oppose S. 1789.

S. 1789 likely will be brought up in the Senate following the Easter recess, the week that follows the April 12 demonstrations. The timing and impact of these events will be critical in helping us to stop S. 1789 and save America’s Postal Service.

If S. 1789 were to pass, the bill would hurt the Postal Service by:

Putting an end to six-day mail delivery in two years.

Phasing out door-to-door mail delivery.

Failing to fully address the Postal Service’s pre-funding requirement.

Not addressing the overpayment into the CSRS pension fund.

These events are meant to engage the public through the use of speeches, handouts and demonstrations to make our voices heard.

The Postal Service has a wide variety of supporters, many of whom may wish to participate in your “Save America’s Postal Service” demonstration, including small-business owners who use the mail to advertise, veterans groups, local elected officials, labor union members, faith leaders, and progressive allies who have concerns for the plight of working men and women.

via Legislation & Political Action | Demonstrations to stop S. 1789.

21 thoughts on “NALC: April 12 Demonstrations to Save America’s Postal Service

  1. Lets put that dues money to good use. First, lets charter a bus and stock it with drinks so they’ll be really radical and boisterous when we get there…maybe even pick up some of those Occupy people. Media won’t know the difference. Hell…for that matter neither will the membership.

  2. All, Liz has an idea and would like some feedback in regard to your Local’s
    interest. At the National Convention after the Parade of States, she want to
    set up Regional hospitality parties, at the same location of the Parade of
    States. It would be called Regional Street Parties. We have a band called
    Haute Chili. Food wagons will be available to buy food and they will have Bars
    set up.

    Remember the Eastern Region rules! Let me know of your Locals interest in this
    event, on a non-commitment basis, of course. Thx. Mike

    Mike Gallagher
    Eastern Region Coordinator
    American Postal Workers Union
    party on, while the slaves ( members) get crushed.

  3. Wingman, you must be one of those sleazy nasty carriers, who have not given one shit about a clerk or mailhandler. I say fuck you and the horse you rode in on. You take some of the shit that has been dished out to the other union people. 6 day, here it comes asshole.

  4. Yes across the country, jobs will be re-posted, do not worry, the APWU is worried about …. the food and accommodations at the national Convention in August, Cliff “no Balls” Guffey has a Suite for his cronies and all the National Coordinators, yes they care about…. themselves,so the APWU is against the VERA’s, the APWU needs your dues for that big party in Vegas, we went to some of these and the local parties were 15k to 20k blowouts, this national one, put your own figure to it, a waste of dues from you,so as you the craft union member suffer or lose your job and/or employment, Cliff Guffey your national Union president will be partying hardy in Vegas,” As the USPS and APWU Burn “!
    Support S. 1789, there is no choice now;
    Call Your Senators:

    202-224-3121
    (Capitol Switchboard)
    [Click here for direct #s]

    Tell them you Support

    Senate Bill 1789.

  5. From the National Association of Letter Carriers:
    NALC: Breaking: Senate will take up S. 1789 after Easter recess: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) announced Monday evening that the Senate would not be taking up consideration of S. 1789, the 21st Century Postal Reform Act, until sometime in mid-April after Congress’ Easter recess. Lieberman is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and one of the co-sponsors of S. 1789, along with Sens. Tom Carper (D-MA), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Scott Brown (R-MA). “Thank you to the more than 50,000 NALC members who took part in Sunday’s national teleconferences,” NALC President Fredric Rolando said, “and thank you to the thousands of letter carriers and allies who, over the past two days, flooded Senate offices with calls to voice our Support to this bill. It’s this unparalleled level of commitment that will help us win the fight to preserve the Postal Service for decades to come. We hope that senators will now use this extra time to carefully analyze the Service’s financial problems, so that when the Senate resumes its business after the break, it will be prepared to work on realistic Early Retirement Incentives for all craft employees , to add to the 25k and/ or years, currently offered” Click here to find out how you can still contact your senators and urge them to support the bill in its current form.
    In addition we support the bipartisan Postal Executive Accountability Act, which limits compensation for executive officers of the United States Postal Service to the same level of pay as the President’s Cabinet.
    via NALC | The National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO ‘

    Call Your Senators:
    202-224-3121
    (Capitol Switchboard)
    [Click here for direct #s]
    Tell them you Support 
    S. 1789

  6. carrier for 27 years, i would love to take saturdays off, but i am concern about lay off, that is the only reason i oppose this.also about the NALC i believe we need unions to get representation when dealing with contracts otherwise will be still slaves, unions are like lawyers, nobody wants them but we all use them.

  7. six day down to five, why stop there, tuesday’s mail volume is non existent, fss is spitting out 50 flats per route. so why not 4 day delivery? management is steadfast, while the crafts must give and give. when the carriers contract is arbitrated you can be sure management will chuck it in with the ubbm.

  8. What? the union does not support the senate bill or the house bill, the union does not want 5 day delivery and the pmg does not either. All they really want is to scream for help and get the congress with president obama re election to completely federalize the usps. No incentives, no early retirements. forget all that it is just a ploy to keep you active. We will be federalized sometime 2013! PMG and unions just playing it for what it’s worth. Looking for a referee to step in and break up the fighting with a sweet tax payer supported usps. Jobs for life.

  9. I agree with the five days. Just remember those 100 degree days when its Saturday and your out delivering mail and its 4:30 in the afternoon and everyone at home is having a BBQ.

  10. What carrier wouldn’t want saturday sunday off, unless you are a T-6. and don’t throw that Union borhterhood crap at me, that’s all nonsense. Give me 5 days.

  11. Largest Postal Union Calls on Senate to Pass S. 1789 As Currently Drafted

    WASHINGTON, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — National Association of Letter Carriers President Details Union’s Concerns about Legislation in Letter to U.S. Senators
    Fredric V. Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), has formally called on the U.S. Senate to pass S. 1789 — the 21st Century Postal Service Act – because it is getting very late, it will provide long-term fixes. He said that while the measure “will provide resources to allow the Service to recover within a few more years, it will change the downward trajectory of this vital institution.”
    The NALC and APWU will join forces in a demonstration March, for Tuesday , April 3rd, 2012, the buses will meet you in the parking lots , located at 1580 lake Street, in Elmira, NY , call your National or local for directions, all expenses will be paid.

    In a letter sent today to each U.S. senator, Mr. Rolando stated, “S. 1789 appears to be based on the Postal Service’s Retirement Incentive strategy, which will alleviate the excessing of employees .
    Mr. Rolando said NALC has “no choice but to Support S. 1789.”
    Mr. Rolando noted that just last week, a USPS witness before the Postal Regulatory Commission acknowledged that a study ordered — but later stopped — by the Postal Service on its own plan for service reductions indicated that the “combined effects of all the service cuts under consideration, including the elimination of Saturday delivery (and 80,000 delivery-related jobs), would not be so severe if The Early Retirement Incentives were offered now.

    Other key points from Mr. Rolando’s letter about the Decent Retirement Incentives in S. 1789:
    It adequately addresses the single biggest cause of the Postal Service’s recent financial distress, the mandate imposed by Congress in 2006 that the Postal Service pre-fund future retiree health insurance benefits. That mandate — required of no other government agency or private business — has cost USPS $21 billion over the past five years. It is money that could have been used to offer the Early Retirement Incentives in April 2012, in a more lucrative way.

  12. In response to “Huh?”, what are you, a manager, Republican dumbass or both? How about whatever your career is, fuck you, too? Wishing for people to lose their jobs is pure meanness and says a lot more about you than you want it to. Would you like to try to pay bills and take care of a disabled wife without a job or benefits? Of course, I don’t think you’re capable of thinking about anybody but you or whatever Limbaugh tells you.
    We are not allowed to strike, and you assholes who hate unions and letter carriers better get it through your thick skulls that if Washington is successful in screwing us like you want them to do, they’re coming for you next and I hope if we are “screwed” you’re the first one on the list. Change your e-name from “Huh” to “Duh” while you’re at it, moron.

  13. You have hit the nail into Guffey’s, well he has no balls, whatever, in reference to all this effort by the Unions to fight the PMG, lost cause !, strike !, in private industry we had some violent strikes, but we had to, to survive, slashed tires, bent heads, etc, these pussy unions will get nowhere, we are dealing with the Third Reich, the Gestapo OIG and Inspectors, yes the tools of management, scum they are, this is a war!, and we the craft are losing, fighting back through Congress is a failure, Teamsters would sit down and take it?, no frigging way !, all this call your Senator is crap, and these same unions will try to stop any VERA, they want dues over your dead body, strike now, and if violence is needed, so ! be ! it !

  14. To Don and rrhammer. Strikeing could be the dummest thing we could do. Remember the Air Traffic Controllers in the early 80″. We don’t need any more people on the unemployee line. Public opinon will be against us if we do. Going on strike is exactly what the republicans want us to do so they can break up the Post Office.

  15. What Don said. If my history is correct, the Wildcat Strikes were illegal but it worked. I’d say it’s time for another, illegal or not. Everyone knows management, both upper and lower, doesn’t know how to operate machinery for the most part (or at least keep them running w/ good throughput) or how certain processes are done. And neither will any temp workers hired in our absence. Oh, they’ll get a few of the basics down like seperating mail and such. But babysitting all the temp workers carrying mail or running a machine isn’t likely. All management knows is dispatch times and standing there watching you.

  16. Do you think that a bunch of letter carriers standing out side a senators empty office is going to bring pressure on him or her? I don’t think that standing out side his office in Washington is going to instill a sense of pressure on them. What would do it is 327,000 letter carriers going on strike!

  17. NALC: April 12 Demonstrations to Save America’s Postal Service
    April 3, 2012 by postal
    Filed under: NALC, postal, postal reform 
    On April 12, the National Association of Letter Carriers will hold “Save America’s Postal Service” demonstrations outside of Senate offices across the country. They are designed to put pressure on each senator to support S. 1789.
    S. 1789 likely will be brought up in the Senate following the Easter recess, the week that follows the April 12 demonstrations. The timing and impact of these events will be critical in helping us to pass S. 1789 and save America’s Postal Service.
    If S. 1789 were to pass, the bill would help the Postal Service by:
    Saving six-day mail delivery.
    Saving door-to-door mail delivery.
    Fully addressing the Postal Service’s pre-funding requirement.
    Offering 25k and other Incentives for Early Retirements,which will alleviate the ongoing excessing due to Office closures.
    These events are meant to engage the public through the use of speeches, handouts and demonstrations to make our voices heard, we ask the PMG, “What is holding up the VERA’s?
    The Postal Service has a wide variety of supporters, many of whom may wish to participate in your “Save America’s Postal Service” demonstration, including small-business owners who use the mail to advertise, veterans groups, local elected officials, labor union members, faith leaders, and progressive allies who have concerns for the plight of working men and women, and offer these workers decent retirement Incentives in April , 2012.

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