Community and Postal Workers to Protest Postal Privatization, cpwunited.com
On 238th Birthday, the Piñata within the Postal Eagle
Blows to the postal eagle: the prefunding mandate and the pension surplus
The spoils within: 65 billion dollar annual business
When: July 26, 2013 (238th birthday of the US Postal Service) at Noon
Where: Office of Rep. Darrell Issa, 1800 Thibodo Rd., Suite 310, Vista CA 92081
The postal service is considering subcontracting the highway movement of mail to the private sector in approximately 162 Postal Vehicle Services sites nationwide, according to the USPS.
Corporate vultures, their friends in Congress and postal management have delivered body blows to the postal eagle like a piñata to shake loose the 65 billion dollar business within. In April 2013 USPS sent the postal unions a notice of intent to subcontract their Pacific Area Postal Vehicle Service, citing cost comparisons. This, despite the fact that they failed in a previous attempt to subcontract PVS in California on an environmental pretext. “The postal service is not broke. The financial crisis is phony. Thanks to Congressman Darrell Issa, the USPS is now destroying good family wage jobs,” said Kevin Cole, a local postal union officer. According to postal unions, Issa pushed the USPS to study privatization of postal trucking.
Current plans to close half the distribution plants and thousands of post offices, eliminate six-day and door-to-door delivery, and abolish 200,000 jobs will send the postal service into a death spiral. To justify these cutbacks, the Postal Service cites its financial crisis. Since 2006 the USPS has been forced to spend nearly 10 percent of its budget prefunding retiree health benefits 75 years in advance. No other U.S. agency or private business faces such a crushing financial burden. Without the unjust Congressional requirement, the USPS would have been profitable. H,R, 630 and S 316 would fix postal finances and protect the service.
Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Darrell Issa recently introduced a bill that would punish workers, deprive customers of vital services, privatize postal services and harm postal finances. It would force USPS to make $3 billion worth of cuts in post offices and mail processing facilities within two years. Secondly it would prohibit postal unions and management from negotiating restrictions in layoffs. Finally it would empower a board to reject negotiated labor contracts if they were deemed too costly Issa’s bill is an excuse to sell public assets to private interests under the guise of a financial crisis.
you issa supporters should read these.
http://www.calbuzz.com/2013/07/why-isnt-darrell-issa-in-jail/
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/18/issa_on_the_hot_seat/singleton/
Pat you are wrong that is the Liberal way….Right now only the RICh are making money….The average people like us are loosing wealth….Under the republicans we all were making money….The Dems set up this system we are in now and it is a disgrace…YOU NEED TO STOP BLAMING REPUBLICANS AND LOOK AT WHO IS REALLY TO BLAME, YOU PATHETIC OBAMA LOVING MORON….Jimmy carter is so happy Obama is doing what he is because now he won’t go down as the worst President ever…What Ideas do you have to save the P.O….You are goingto go to the NALC homepage to get your talking points, and say blah blah blah but give no real solution…..5-Day all the way
Pat N says; Give it to em’ I’m with ya!
I seldom fail to find ignorance when I check out the comments on this sight. I’m almost always assured to find a troll or two. No change when reading the comments beneath this article.
If you republicans are too stupid to figure out that your elected representatives are working for the people with all the money, and they have no plans to include you, then you deserve to get exactly what’s coming to you.
Issa and his ilk are not happily trying to ‘fix’ the economic woes of the US. They are looking to suck every last bit of oxygen out of our political system so they can rob what’s left, rape what they can, and plunder and burn their way to a nice fat lobbyist position in their tender years.
Get a clue you complete republican morons. Pull your fascist head out of your collective anus’s and look around.
Funny with the Nation in so much debt you would think Congress would start making cut’s on their Salary and benefits. After all they are the one’s who got America into this mess.
When we go to 5 day delivery email me….. This stuff means squat to me!!!
I agree. Sometimes I don’t know who the greater impedence is, the crooks in Congress or the union. NALC has seemed to totally run out of ideas. I’m leaving the union this year.
Right on Captn Jack…..Its the Democratic way, blame the people who are putting ideas out to try and fix our situation…We can’t keep going the on this path…All the union says is to stop the pre-funding(Issa wants to do that) and what else, You stop the pre-funding you are still in the red….Something has to be done and 5-Day is the way..
VMFs and MVS are huge wastes of money. Of course the unions promote inefficiency– they need employees (not workers) to pay dues and keep the union officers in jobs, very high paying jobs with great perks.
Ever see Fried Green Tomatos?
Barbecue Issa and the problem will go away.
If you put two people under a blanket and tell them to throw out what they don’t need eventually they conclude that the blanket is what they don’t need. Sometimes they have to get naked before they figure it out. What we don’t need in this case is Issa.