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The National Association of Letter Carriers has told members of its eActivist Network that their calls will prevent Senator Joe Lieberman’s postal reform bill from receiving a floor vote next week. The NALC opposes the provision in the bill that would allow the USPS to cut Saturday deliveries.
Dear Supporter, Thanks to you and your brothers and sisters across the country, S. 1789 will not be brought to the Senate floor next week. We were successful in delaying a floor vote on S. 1789 because letter carriers called their senators and urged them to oppose the bill in its current form. S. 1789 is still on the docket, though, and it might be brought up in the near future. Therefore, it is imperative that you continue to check your e-mail and the NALC website for the most up-to-date information regarding further action on S. 1789. The NALC is continuing to work with Senate leadership and our allies in the Senate to reform the bill before the Senate considers it for passage.
This week, you did your part to protect the future of the United States Postal Service and, when I call on you again, I know you will take action to keep the pressure on the Senate to do the right thing.
Thank you for your continued efforts.
In Solidarity, Fredric V. Rolando, President National Association of Letter Carriers
by John Beaumont, National Association of Letter Carriers
On January 17, 1962, President John F Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988. This granted Federal Employees, for the first time, the right to collective bargaining. This action led to inspire many states and localities to follow suit, allowing their own workers to organize. This triggered a huge wave of unionization in the public sector that saw firefighters, teachers, janitors, social workers and many others form unions in the 1960s and '70s. Now all this is under attack. The nation's postal unions, whose employees combine to be the largest Federal union in the nation, are being attacked through proposed legislation in the United States Senate.
As early as next week, S. 1789, the so-called 21st Century Postal Service Act, is moving forward for a floor vote in the Senate. This bill, reported out of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security by Senator Lieberman, would do the following:
Cuts mail delivery from six days a week down to five days in two years' time if the Postal Service is not turning a profit, but fails to give the Postal Service any flexibility to achieve that profit.
Phases out door-to-door delivery for consumers in favor of curbside and centralized delivery.
Includes an anti-labor provision that would direct arbitrators to take into special consideration the financial condition of the Postal Service before rendering a decision. A direct attack on collective bargaining.
Unfairly attacks injured postal workers by removing them from the OWCP rolls and forcing them into retirement without implementing a formula that would make these people whole. The reduction in compensation would be severe.
If Congress succeeds in this attack against the postal unions, it will shift its focus to the rest of the unionized federal workforce, including our newly certified brothers and sisters who are employed by TSA.
We need your help to stop this attack. Please call Senator Reid's office at (202) 224-3542 and Senator Heller's office at (202) 224-6244 and ask them both to oppose S. 1789 in its current form. The legislation is deeply flawed and needs significant changes before the Senate should consider passage of this bill.
Changes to the bill should include provisions from S. 1853, which actually does take the necessary steps by addressing the issues laid out above to strengthen the Postal Service while maintaining the excellent level of service Americans have come to expect, preserving middle-class jobs and creating new opportunities for the Postal Service moving forward.
We need everyone possible not to just call our Senators in Region 1 but also write them a letter as well. Letters written and mailed to our US Senators State District Offices will get there within a couple of days, plenty of time to get their attention if this comes up for a vote at the end of next week. It is fine to call their Capitol officers but please do not send any mail to DC since they delay the mail for screening by as much as 8 days, thank you.
I've attached a sample letter to use and send to Senators Reid and Heller. Below is a list of all our Senators local address. Also it is very important you get this out to as many members as possible using your own email addresses. At the begining of the year the E-Activist list was updated and a portion of the membership previous on the list in all three states were purged. We need to make sure every gets this alert. If you have any questions please give Clancey a call.
Nevada
Senator Harry Reid Bruce R. Thompson Courthouse & Federal Bldg 400 S. Virginia St, Suite 902 Reno, NV 89501 (202) 224-3542 Senator Dean Heller Bruce Thompson Federal Building, 400 South Virginia Street, Suite 738 Reno, NV 89501 (202) 224-6244
On Friday, Jan 20th, the USPS declined to extend collective-bargaining negotiations with the NALC, triggering an impasse that will automatically send the matter to mediation. “I am disappointed by the Postal Service’s decision,” NALC President Fredric V. Rolando said. “We have been making steady progress in negotiations. NALC continues to believe that a negotiated agreement is in the best interests of the parties, the businesses that rely on us and the nation we serve. We will continue to negotiate in good faith as mediation takes place.”
As the Senate reconvenes in Washington today, the NALC is closely monitoring expected Senate action for this and the coming weeks. With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announcing late last week that he would be delaying a floor vote for the controversial anti-piracy bills pending before Congress, the Senate schedule now has unexpected floor time that will need to be filled. All indications are that the leadership plans on moving S. 1789, the 21st Century Postal Service Act of 2011, as early as next week. S. 1789, in its current form, is unacceptable to the NALC and to many stakeholders and customers throughout the country.
The bill as reported out of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs fell short of achieving the many needed reforms to ensure a vibrant Postal Service for the future.
The legislation:
* Allows for five-day delivery in two years' time if the Postal Service is not turning a profit, but fails to give the Postal Service any flexibility to achieve that profit.
* Phases out door-to-door delivery in favor of curbside and centralized delivery.
* Fails to recoup the $55 billion to $75 billion in CSRS pension surplus funds.
* Does not go far enough in restructuring the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefit Fund.
* Includes an anti-labor provision that would direct arbitrators to take into special consideration the financial condition of the Postal Service before rendering a decision.
* Unfairly attacks injured postal workers by removing them from the OWCP rolls and forcing them into retirement without implementing a formula that would make these people whole. The reduction in compensation would be severe.
Please call Sen. Reid at (202) 224-3542 and ask him to oppose S. 1789 in its current form. The legislation is deeply flawed and needs significant changes before the Senate should consider passage of this bill.
Changes to the bill should include provisions from S. 1853, The Postal Service Protection Act of 2011. This bill takes the necessary steps by addressing the issues laid out above to strengthen the Postal Service while maintaining the excellent level of service Americans have come to expect, preserving middle-class jobs and creating new opportunities for the Postal Service moving forward.
Again, please call Sen. Reid as soon as possible and urge him to delay action on S. 1789 as drafted. We expect the Senate to pass legislation that protects senior citizens, rural communities, small businesses and others and we hope to be at the table as those discussions are held.
Thank you in advance for your urgent action.
In Solidarity,
Fredric V. Rolando, President
National Association of Letter Carriers
(from federal times) The U.S. Postal Service used questionable data in its selection of more than 3,600 post offices to study for closure and should rethink its methods, an oversight body has concluded. Postal Regulatory Commission members are concerned that the mail carrier's approach does not "determine the facilities most likely to serve the greatest number, reduce the greatest costs, or enhance the potential for growth or stability in the system," PRC Chairman Ruth Goldway said in a news release accompanying the Dec. 23 release of the133-page opinion. In many cases, contract post offices and other means of "alternative access'' cannot make up for the loss of a full-service post office, the four-member PRC found in a unanimously issued advisory opinion. And while the Postal Service predicts that the proposed closings would save about $200 million annually, it could not provide revenue and expense information to back up that assertion to the commission's satisfaction. USPS officials in July unveiled a list of about 3,650 post offices — or about 11 percent of the total — that could be closed. Its goal was to wrap up a streamlined review by year's end.
With its downsizing plans under mounting fire on Capitol Hill, however, the Postal Service earlier this month announced a freeze on shuttering any post offices or mail processing plants until mid-May. Postal officials are reviewing the PRC opinion, spokesman Dave Partenheimer said Tuesday. About 80 percent of post offices lose money, according to the Postal Service; of the facilities on the review list, more than 3,000 yield less than $27,500 in yearly revenue, the agency has said. By law, the Postal Service must ask the commission to weigh in on any proposed service change with a nationwide impact. Although the newly released opinion is nonbinding, it furnishes ammunition to critics who say that a wave of post office closings would hurt service and disproportionately affect rural areas. The PRC's "unanimous findings support my and many of my colleagues' skepticism about the wisdom of mass postal closures without a more thoughtful, transparent and data-driven process," Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said in a news release.
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