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 […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that, in his role as Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG), he has inserted language in the committee’s annual appropriations bill that would help protect jobs at the Processing and Distribution Annex in Quincy, Illinois and ensure community […]
Bill Would Create $10.7 Billion in Annual Savings to Save the Postal Service without a Taxpayer Bailout WASHINGTON– Today, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., announced they would move forward H.R. 2309, the Issa-Ross Postal Reform Act of 2011, at a subcommittee business meeting Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Subcommittee Chairman Ross will introduce an […]
Rallies Set for Sept. 27 in Every Congressional District The APWU has joined forces with the three other postal unions to designate Sept. 27 as a day of action to Save America’s Postal Service. Together, the APWU and the National Association of Letter Carriers, the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the National Rural Letter […]
Tester plans to share feedback as Congress considers future of mail service. Tester also recently launched tester.senate.gov/postal, a new website for Montanans to comment about proposed post office closures. Tuesday, September 6, 2011 (U.S. SENATE) – U.S. Senator Jon Tester released the following statement as the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs today […]
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.
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 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 […]
The President of the National Association of Postal Supervisors, Louis M. Atkins, will testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Sept. 6 about the Postal Service’s financial crisis and the plans that the Postal Service has proposed to remedy this problem. Atkins will be representing the collective interests of the […]