From the National Association of Postal Supervisors Legislative and Regulatory Update The National Association of Postal Supervisors has questioned the Postal Service’s plans for the use of contracting out in realigning its mail processing and distribution network and has encouraged Congress to ask the Postal Service where it’s headed in its reliance on private contractors to […]
APWU News The Postal Service is unable to demonstrate that it saves money by outsourcing, according to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, because it has no comprehensive mechanism to measure savings. “Without cost-savings data, postal managers, stakeholders and Congress cannot assess the risk and value of outsourcing,” the GAO concluded. Nonetheless, the USPS […]
From NALC Bulletin NALC President William H. Young announced June 13 that he has obtained agreement from the Postal Service to extend the moratorium on delivery subcontracting called for by the Article 32 Committee Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in the National Agreement through September 30, 2008, the end of the USPS Fiscal Year. The moratorium […]
Carriers from Florida, Georgia, and Carolinas Take Union’s Message Directly to Congress Letter carriers from NALC branches throughout Region 9 continued the union’s lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill April 15-17, pressing Congress to keep a close watch on any resurgence of contracting out by the Postal Service and reminding them of key issues on the […]
http://www.apwu.org/index2.htm APWU-Backed Bill Introduced in Congress; Legislation Would Require Bargaining Over Subcontracting The APWU won a significant victory on Nov. 15, when Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) introduced legislation that would require the Postal Service to bargain with postal unions before making a commitment to significant subcontracting. H.R. 4236 would require the USPS to submit to […]
(Press Release- Sept. 20, 2007) The Executive Committee of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, committed today to make priorities of rebuilding America’s failing transportation system and infrastructure, stopping outsourcing at the United States Postal Service, and protecting the income and retirement security of public transit workers. The United States Postal Service is jumping on the […]
From PostalReporter.com reader: The Postal Service continues to implement Phase 2 of the National Reassessment Process (NRP) in USPS Districts across the country. There is no set schedule that establishes a date when a particular District will begin Phase 2. Every USPS District should have already implemented Phase 1 of the NRP, which is the […]
Excerpts from GAO’s Report – U.S. POSTAL SERVICE:Progress Made in Implementing Mail Processing Realignment Efforts, but Better Integration and Performance Measurement Still Needed Several major changes have affected USPS’s mail processing operations, including marketplace changes, declining First-Class Mail volume, increased competition, increased mail processing by mailers, automated operations, and population shifts. These changes have led […]
APWU News The USPS “has begun to travel resolutely down the road of privatization,” APWU President William Burrus told a Senate subcommittee on July 25, “without authorization from Congress” — or the American people. The subcontracting of postal work, he warned, “is just one aspect of a dangerous trend: the wholesale conversion of a vital public […]
If Congress wants to limit USPS subcontracting, lawmakers should enact legislation compelling the Postal Service to bargain over the issue, APWU President William Burrus told a House subcommittee on July 19, rather than intervening in specific contracting-out disputes. In informal remarks to the subcommittee, NALC President Bill Young endorsed Burrus’ message. “Last time we testified […]