From the President’s Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction Provide Postal Service financial relief and undertake reform. The Administration recognizes the enormous value of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to the Nation’s commerce and communications, as well as the urgent need for reform to ensure its future viability. USPS faces a long-term, structural operating […]
Coalition tells White House that federal employees, retirees have sacrificed enough WASHINGTON – A coalition of labor and management groups sent a letter to President Obama today urging him to reject proposals that would require federal employees and retirees to shoulder more of the cost of lowering the nation’s deficit. President Obama is scheduled to […]
A coalition of federal and postal employee organizations wrote a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to reject proposals aimed at the federal workforce. The groups major concern is the proposal to require federal employees to contribute a much higher share towards their retirement annuity which in effect is a pay cut.
Postal Worker Gene Martin’s disgust with President Obama’s policies prompted him to fly a flag with a swastika in his yard. “Flying his Nazi flag is one way Gene Martin has chosen to express his disdain for the political direction of the United States. Martin, a 69-year-old retired veteran and U.S. Postal Service worker, said […]
Presidential Memorandum–Federal Fleet Performance The Federal Government operates the largest fleet of light duty vehicles in America. We owe a responsibility to American citizens to lead by example and contribute to meeting our national goals of reducing oil imports by one-third by 2025 and putting one million advanced vehicles on the road by 2015. Living […]
HATCH ACT PROHIBITION: CERTAIN IMAGES NOT ALLOWED IN WORKPLACE If you have a photo in your workspace of a candidate for president of the United States, you may be violating federal law. The Hatch Act prohibits postal employees from engaging in political activity while on duty in any government office, while wearing an official uniform […]
February 18, 2011 – Legislative Council Bob Brinkmann’s overview of President Obama’s budget proposal Obama’s Budget and the Postal Service Earlier this week, the President released his budget. For the first time, it deals directly with the Postal Service’s financial situation, and specifically with the overpayment situation. It does not, by any means, go far enough […]
As Federal News Radio reported today, a coalition of 15 Federal and Postal organizations sent a letter to President Obama calling on the White House to reject proposals by the Deficit Commission that would cut federal civilian retirement and health benefits, freeze federal pay and reduce the federal workforce by 10 percent. National Deficit Commission […]
President Barack Obama, NALC President Fredric V. Rolando meet: NALC President Fredric V. Rolando, along with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and about a dozen labor leaders in all, met with President Barack Obama Friday in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. They had a productive discussion about jobs and how to address the difficult […]
The White House has issued the following “Fact Sheet: Cutting the Deficit by Freezing Federal Employee Pay” Because of the irresponsibility of the past decade, the President inherited a $1.3 trillion projected deficit upon taking office and an economic crisis that threatened to put the nation into a second Great Depression. He moved quickly to […]