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Legislation will be voted in the House in mid November to end 6 day delivery thus causing 80,000 people to loose their jobs. Also included in HR 2309 is to eliminate house to house delivery by the year 2015.
If you have not yet signed a petition and would like to let your congressional representative know that you support saving Saturday mail delivery service, you may sign this online petition. Bottom of page
Ed Schultz talked to USPS letter carrier and Rep. Joe Walsh constituent Melissa Rakestraw about her encounter with Walsh at a recent meeting he had where he basically melted down and started screaming at Rakestraw and some of the others who were unfortunate enough to be attending that event.
You read that right. A proposal in Congress would end door-to-door mailbox delivery service for 90 percent of American households and businesses that now receive it. H.R. 2309, a bill that is headed for a vote in the full House of Representatives, calls for the dismantling of the U.S. Postal Service, one of America’s oldest and most beloved institutions that has served the nation for more than 235 years as provided by the U.S. Constitution.
A majority of representatives in the House has co-sponsored H.R. 1351, thanks to your hard work and dedication. Reaching this majority was a direct result of the lobby visits, rallies and media coverage you have generated since this legislation was introduced. However, our fight is far from over, and we must keep up the momentum. It is time to take our message back to the American people and show Congress that the public stands with us on saving Saturday delivery. Over the next several weeks, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, the "super committee," will produce a plan to reduce the federal deficit.
It may include a package of proposals to fix the financial difficulties facing the USPS. Among the proposals they will consider is President Obama's proposal to allow the USPS to reduce the number of delivery days from six to five. At the National Rap Session in Las Vegas last weekend, I announced the next phase of the "Save America's Postal Service" campaign: a national petition drive urging Congress to preserve six-day delivery. Through this petition drive, we will build support among the American public and continue to let Congress know that six-day delivery is crucial to the future of the Postal Service. The only way we will be successful is if every NALC member does his or her part.
Every NALC branch is charged with collecting 10 times its membership size in signatures. Your role as an NALC activist will be critical to achieving your branch's goal. Completed petitions should be mailed to NALC's Department of Legislative and Political Affairs and arrive before Monday, Nov. 14. Click the following links to download the petition and other relevant materials:
For more information, please click here to visit the "Save America's Postal Service" website:
Together we are stronger, and with your help, we can continue to deliver for America six days a week.
In Solidarity,
Fredric V. Rolando, President
National Association of Letter Carriers
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Not a Done Deal: NALC vows to oppose 5-day delivery in Obama plan
Return of FERS surplus, other short-term relief a good start—but not enough....
We are encouraged that President Obama is attempting to creatively address the USPS cash crisis through the deficit reduction process and welcome his proposal to return the $6.9 billion postal pension surplus in FERS to the Postal Service as proposed in Rep. Stephen Lynch’s H.R. 1351. But we are very disappointed that the administration opted for a deferral of the next two pre-funding payments ($5.5 billion each) instead of embracing a permanent reform based on the Lynch bill’s recovery of the even larger CSRS surplus. And we deeply regret that the administration has given into pressure from the postmaster general and has proposed to eliminate Saturday mail delivery.
NALC President Fredric Rolando testifies before Congress (beginning at minute 40). In an article that ran the day before the Labor Day holiday, the New York Times took the opportunity to fear monger about the current financial problems at the United States Postal Service and blame workers for the financial shortfalls the agency faces.
Please vote yes on this if you care about your job...scroll down to Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Just days before we formally open collective bargaining negotiations, the Postal Service has sent a clear message: It intends to use the financial crisis caused by the deep recession and the crushing congressional pre-funding mandates to strip postal employees of our bargaining rights.
Active Member on USPS Rolls in a Non- Status Pay:
Any active member on the USPS rolls who is in a non-pay status must pay full membership dues directly to the Branch 709 Financial Secretary each month. Such member will be notified by the Branch 709 Recording Secretary with certified mail within thirty (30) days of the start of the non-pay status. If an active member exceeds a period of sixty (60) consecutive days without having paid membership dues, they will be dropped from the Branch 709 NALC membership. Active members may, for extenuating circumstances appeal to the Branch 709 Executive Board to have their membership dues waived and thereby retain their NALC membership. The Executive Board will rule by majority on all such appeals.
WHAT THE OIG RECOMMENDED:
promote office efficiency by coordinating with plants to ensure mail arrives timely and in a condition to promote maximum office efficiency. They also recommended reinforcement of Postal Service policies and procedures for supervising city delivery operations and elimination of inefficient practices. Like harrassment?
Issa's anti-union/corporate buddies at the SD Union Tribune are at it again. They just released a second poll Should Congress pass Rep. Issa's bill to end Saturday mail delivery? Of course they are trying to spin this question to gather public support so when they open the poll they want you to click- Yes They do this by stating in the Yes response, it's what has to happen to keep the Postal Service solvent. Which we all know is completely untrue. Please click on the link - Should Congress pass Rep. Issa's bill to end Saturday mail delivery? Vote No, I do not support the proposal. We cannot let Congressman Issa's supporters mislead the public. Please get as many co-workers, friends, and families to vote in this poll.
In Sweden, IKEA's factory workers are paid $19 per hour and get five weeks of paid vacation every year. In America? Not so much.
IKEA's Swedwood plant in Danville, Virginia is the most dangerous plant in the wood furniture industry -- workers there have suffered more than 1,536 days of lost work due to accidents on the job in a 30-month period. According to the LA Times, IKEA's Danville workers are paid as little as $8 an hour and face racial discrimination from their managers. Workers often find out on Friday night that they'll be forced to work for the entire weekend -- and if they can't make it, they face disciplinary action.
In Sweden, IKEA's factory workers are unionized, which is one reason they receive better wages and have a safer workplace -- but the company is going all out to prevent American workers from receiving those same rights and protections. Please sign the petition to tell IKEA to give its American workers the freedom to organize.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a false claim that states he is seeking to prevent another taxpayer bailout, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced today legislation to implement sweeping, structural reforms of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The legislation represents the most fundamental reform of the postal service that has been proposed since USPS was first created from the old Post Office Department.
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