NAPS Requests Fact Finding on USPS 2011-2015 Pay Package Offer
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NAPS Response to USPS Pay Package FY 2011-2015
“Although the Postal Service’s current financial condition would lend itself to belt-tightening by everyone in the Postal Service, our organization cannot agree with the pay proposals that have been offered in light of the efforts that our members have given in managing operations and supporting the overall service goals and mission of the Postal Service. NAPS also proposed many other provisions beyond pay and benefits that were not addressed by the Postal Service. We intend to exhaust all remedies to ensure that we reach a fair and equitable pay package.”
NAPS Invokes Rights under Title 39, USC and requests Fact Finding:
On Monday, November 14, 2011, the National Association of Postal Supervisors initiated a request to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) to enter Fact Finding with the United States Postal Service in accordance with procedures in 39 U.S.C. Section 1004(f) and 29 CFR Part 1404.
Now that our request for Fact Finding has been submitted, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. Section 1004(f)(2), within 15 days after receiving our request, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service shall provide a list of seven (7) individuals recognized as experts in supervisory and managerial pay policies.
Each party shall designate one individual from the list to serve on the panel. If, within 10 days after the list is provided, either of the parties has not designated an individual from the list, the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service shall make the designation. The first two individuals designated from the list shall meet within 5 days and shall designate a third individual from the list.
The third individual shall chair the panel. If the two individuals designated from the list are unable to designate a third individual within 5 days after their first meeting, the Director shall designate the third individual. In addition to the submission to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, we served notice to the Postal Service of our intentions to initiate Fact Finding.
As further information becomes available we will release it to the membership. We appreciate your support in this matter.
NAPS Resident Officers
source: National Association of Postal Supervisors
NAPS To Congress: USPS Network Plans and Elimination of Next-Day Delivery Will Contribute to its Demise
Filed under: Congress, NAPS, postal, postal news, postal supervisors, usps
From the National Association of Postal Supervisors
“NAPS sent to the full House and Senate Committees expressing our position on the Postal Service’s plans to consolidate and close processing facilities along with our recommendations for a legislative solution.” Read more
Postal Supervisors will join unions September 27, 2011 in effort to save USPS
Filed under: NALC, NAPS, NPMHU, NRLCA, postal, postal news, postal reform, usps
The leadership of the National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS) has agreed to join forces with the four postal unions representing employees of the Postal Service to designate September 27, 2011 as a day of action to Save America’s Postal Service.
Together, NAPS, the American Postal Workers Union, the National Association of Letter Carriers, the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the National Rural Letter Carriers Association will rally in every congressional district in the country to concentrate our efforts to build support for H.R. 1351, a bill introduced in the House by Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA). Read more
USPS Major Announcement Rescheduled
From the National Association OF Supervisors (NAPS)
The USPS has advised that their major announcement that was scheduled for September 8, 2011 has been rescheduled to September 15th due to the president’s address to Congress now scheduled for September 8th.
NAPS
NAPS Urge Senators To Support Carper, Collins Postal Reform Bills
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From the National Association of Postal Supervisors:
August 31, 2011
Dear Member of the United States Senate:
I write on behalf of the nearly 32,000 members of our association, many of whom work and vote in your District.
The United States Postal Service faces an unprecedented crisis. It is projected to run out of cash on September 30, an outcome caused largely by retiree health care prepayments the Postal Service is required to make that are far larger than reasonable or necessary. This result is due to Congressional statutory requirements imposed in 2006, not to Postal Service mismanagement.
We urge Congress to realign the Postal Service’s retiree health prefunding schedule to a larger time period consistent with what the Postal Service can afford, making use of a surplus created by Postal Service pension overpayments. That pension surplus, according to studies of the Postal Regulatory Commission and the Inspector General of the Postal Service, could be as large as $55-75 billion. Legislative proposals offered by Sen. Tom Carper (S. 1010) and Sen. Susan Collins (S. 353), in part, would realign the Postal Service’s prefunding payments.
Realignment of the Postal Service’s retiree health prefunding payments clearly would defuse the postal crisis. Most important, this action would eliminate the need for sweeping, alternative proposals recently advanced by the Postal Service, which we oppose, which would:
- Reduce delivery to six days per week to five days per week or less;
- Eliminate overnight delivery of First Class mail in local areas, resulting in the closure of nearly half of current mail processing facilities, eliminating thousands of jobs;
- Close thousands of small Post Offices, many of them in rural areas; and
- Permit the Postal Service to secede from the federal health and retirement programs and create alternative health and retirement plans for its employees and retirees.
The proposals offered by Sen. Tom Carper and Sen. Susan Collins, in part, would require the Office of Personnel Management to review the postal Service’s past pension payments, using modern, well-accepted principles of accounting, and to require the Postal Service to use any surplus of payments to satisfy its remaining health prefunding obligations under the 2006 law.
We urge you to support these measured and responsible efforts proposed by your colleagues to stabilize the Postal Service’s financial outlook. Without swift action, it will be difficult, if not impossible to avoid the massive changes in service and infrastructure the USPS unnecessarily has had to propose.
Sincerely Yours
Louis M. Atkins
President
Atkins letter to Senate.pdf (application/pdf Object).
NAPS President to Testify Before Senate Panel on Postal crisis
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Pay Talks Between USPS and Postal Management Associations Underway
From the National Association of Postmasters of the US:
Pay talks between the U. S. Postal Service and the management associations are now underway. The Postal Service has submitted proposed changes in pay policies and schedules and fringe benefits for Postmasters for the period covering fiscal year 2011 through fiscal year 2015. NAPUS and League representatives will now enter the consultative process to discuss the proposed changes with the Postal Service, which will include providing the Postal Service with a list of pay issues on behalf of Postmasters.
While specific details of the pay consultations will remain confidential, updates on the talks will be provided on the NAPUS website as they become available.
NAPS: Issa’s Postal Bill Would Worsen USPS Financial Condition
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“Mr. Issa’s legislation also falls short in failing to authorize new avenues of commerce for the Postal Service as part of a broader, realistic business model for the 21st century.”
Statement by National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS) President Louis Atkins on Postal Reform Legislation:
June 30, 2011
The sweeping legislation proposed by Congressman Darrell Issa (H.R. 2019) to overhaul the United States Postal Service is dangerously misguided. It is an attack upon the management authority of the Postal Service and its dedicated workforce. The legislation should be firmly rejected by the Congress.
The legislation is misguided because it fails to address the immediate cause of the Postal Service’s financial problems – far too aggressive retiree health prefunding payments and pension overpayments. Congress largely created these perverse problems; Congress should first fix them.
Mr. Issa’s legislation, by failing to deal constructively with the prefunding and pension overpayment issues, would only worsen the Postal Service’s deteriorating financial condition. The creation of new government entities under the bill, like the Commission for Postal Reorganization and the Postal Service Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, will result in more government and more costs, not less. Mr. Issa’s legislation also falls short in failing to authorize new avenues of commerce for the Postal Service as part of a broader, realistic business model for the 21st century.
We continue to support proposals that will authorize the Postal Service to use billions of dollars in pension overpayments – as conclusively determined by the Postal Regulatory Commission and the Inspector General of the Postal Service – to help prepay its retiree health care costs. We urge the Congress to adopt the common-sense measures proposed by Rep. Stephen Lynch and Senator Tom Carper and Senator Susan Collins that would address the overpayments issue and help restore the Postal Service’s financial health.
NAPS: Issa Postal Reform Bill in the Wings
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POSTAL SUPERVISORS
NAPS Leg/Reg Update – June 21, 2011
Is Your Congressman on HR 1351? There are 150 Members of the House of Representatives who have co-sponsored HR 1351, the critical bill introduced by Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) that fixes USPS overpayments for CSRS and FERS pension obligations and realigns USPS prefunding health benefit payments for future retirees. This is the most important postal legislation before Congress. NAPS strongly supports it. NAPS members need to express their support for it to Congress.
NAPS needs to gain the support of many more House lawmakers for this bill. It will do that by more NAPS members asking their House lawmakers to cosponsor HR 1351. Read more
IRS Identifies Postal Employee Organizations that have lost Tax-Exempt Status
Some postal employee organizations failed to file their required IRS tax-exempt returns for three years in a row. On the list is the National Association of Postal Supervisors in Alexandria VA, plus some NAPS chapters like Norfolk VA and California State. Some local units of the National League of Postmasters, NAPUS, NALC and APWU are well represented including quite a few Local APWU Accident & Benefit Associations. Also, Postal Police and National Alliance Of Postal Employees.The reinstatement fee is as much as $850.
If an organization appears on the list of organizations whose tax-exempt status has been automatically revoked, it is because IRS records indicated the organization had a filing requirement and did not file the required returns or notices for 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Automatic Revocation of Exemption List
IRS Identifies Organizations that Have Lost Tax-Exempt Status; Announces Special Steps to Help Revoked Organizations