WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over the U.S. Postal Service, released the following reaction to the U.S. Postal Service’s most recent proposals to address its fiscal challenges:
From the National Association of Postmasters of the US (NAPUS): NAPUS fully recognizes the extraordinary financial difficulties confronting the Service, resulting from overpayments into the retirement system, overly-aggressive prefunding of retiree health coverage, and falling mail volume. However, the USPS proposal to deny its employees and retirees access to a stable, affordable, and time-tested earned […]
From the National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS): The Postal Service yesterday proposed a series of extraordinary and controversial legislative actions to pull its employees and retirees out of the federal retirement and health benefit programs and terminate the no-layoff provisions of its union contracts.
USPS to Congress: Break Our Collective Bargaining Agreements With National bargaining over the terms of the 2011 National Agreement about to begin, the Postal Service has publicly announced that management is seeking wholesale changes in its collective bargaining agreements. In short, they are asking Congress to override collective bargaining. President John Hegarty and Secretary-Treasurer Mark […]
National Association of Letter Carriers Yesterday, in a mandatory stand-up talk, Postal Service management all across the country told letter carriers: “If we were a private company, we would have already filed for bankruptcy and gone through restructuring—much like major automakers did two years ago.” The Service repeated this claim in a press release distributed […]
Postmasters Receive Second RIF Notice On August 2nd Areas sent another RIF notice to Postmasters impacted by DUO. Many Postmasters had received a RIF notice when their office was going through the DUO process. This RIF notice apparently was just a notice of a possible RIF. The August 2 RIF letter was a General Notice […]
USPS has published the following Statements, White Papers and Talking Points on eliminating layoff protection, administering its own retirement and health programs While the Postal Service remains the cornerstone of a $1 trillion industry and will continue to be vital to the U.S. economy, the Postal Service will be insolvent next month due to significant declines […]
“The U. S. Postal Service is facing financial problems that was created largely by Congress. Now Congress wants to strip Postal Workers of their Union rights. MSNBC Ed Schultz talks with Cliff Guffey, President of the American Postal Workers Union on what’s being done to protect postal workers.” “How much do you know about the […]
.. one local man says instead of hard work, he saw a postal worker sleeping in an empty field. In a picture taken by Sam Bowersox, he says a postal worker was taking a snooze in a field in the middle of the day. “It’s obvious that he’s sound asleep,” Bowersox said.
USPS NewsBreak -The following is an announcement and Mandatory stand-up talk by USPS to employees on August 11, 2011 USPS EXPLORING ADDITIONAL LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS TO ADDRESS FISCAL CRISIS The Postal Service is vital to the U.S. economy — and will remain so for years to come. It’s the cornerstone of a $1 trillion industry. But […]