USPS Plan Would Hurt Service, Workers, Communities Testifying before a Senate panel on Sept. 6, APWU President Cliff Guffey urged Congress to take action to prevent a collapse of the Postal Service, and he denounced USPS proposals to abrogate the union’s Collective Bargaining Agreement.
WASHINGTON — Without enactment of legislation by the end of this month, the Postal Service faces default, as funds will be insufficient to make a congressionally mandated $5.5 billion payment to pre-fund retiree health benefits, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe told a Senate committee today. “The Postal Service is in a crisis today because it operates […]
and to Let USPS Pension Overpayments Prefund Retiree Health Benefits USPS Pension and Retiree Health Benefits Payments Should be Realigned; USPS Should Not Withdraw from the Federal Retiree Health Benefit Plan. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 6, 2011— “Enough is enough. Congress must act. The time to act is now and the action to take is to […]
U.S. Postal Service in Crisis: Proposals to Prevent a Postal Shutdown -Live video will not be available until approximately 15 minutes prior to the scheduled hearing start time. Tuesday, September 6, 2011 02:00 PM Dirksen Senate Office Building, room SD-342
From National Association of Postmasters of the United States (NAPUS) e-newsletter On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) intends to conduct a hearing on legislative proposals that seek to avert a “Postal shutdown.” This is the first time in recent memory that the full Committee, rather than its […]
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
September 2nd, 2011 Representative from NAPUS and the League met with USPS Headquarters officials for the third time yesterday to discuss pay, benefits, ELM changes, and leave for Postmasters. The next meeting is scheduled for the end of this month and future meetings are planned for early October. Details cannot be provided until the pay […]
APWU Web News Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who likes to portray himself as a fierce opponent of wasting taxpayers’ money, has created a slick, high-tech Web site that bashes the Postal Service, using – you guessed it – taxpayers’ money. The Web site, a production of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is […]
Patented Protection of USPS Data The U.S. Patent Office has issued a patent for the Postal Service’s “Methods and systems for determining privacy requirements for an information resource,” also known as the Business Impact Assessment — BIA. The BIA was developed jointly by the Privacy Office and the Corporate Information Security Office (CISO) as a […]
NALC sent out the following message to its members about Rep. Darrell Issa using taxpayer money to fund a website in his war against postal workers. It was brought to my attention today that, under the direction of Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, an anti-USPS website […]