Flying squads of postal pickets on wheels hit the bricks on Labor Day
Embattled postal truckers protest privatization
The working-class is disenchanted with the status quo
Community and Postal Workers to Protest Postal Privatization
When: September 2, 2013 from 10 am till 1 pm.
Where: Santa Ana Post Office, 2201 N Grand Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92711
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.
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 (California), 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
My apwu union president said at a meeting that a national arbitration award would stop mvs subcontracting…whas up? Was he lying or just confused?
Who cares ?
Jesse B- Your understanding of the powers and responsibilities of the Federal government is profoundly flawed. According to the Constitution the exclusive right to initiate spending bills belongs to the House of Representatives. Therefore spending starts with those folks in the House…..not with the Obama administration. Like Jack Webb used to say on Dragnet “just the facts, sir just the facts”
Why not privatize the Postmaster General’s job. Give it to BENARD MADOFF! And after that, privatize all the Postal jester’s jobs.
Jesse – I’m proud to say I did not vote for that boy in either election!
I’m prouder now than ever to say that I did not vote for Obama. Let me remind anyone who did that Obama said, in his campaign for the Presidency, “Americans have to lower their expectations.” Well, it looks like everything’s going according to his plan then, isn’t it? I didn’t vote for Guffey either, but after paying union dues for 30 years, I cut my losses and retired in January, so at least no more of my hard-earned pay is going to him. Too bad I can’t stop paying taxes so Obama’s administration won’t be able to waste that part of my pension. Good luck to anyone too young (or too broke) to retire. You have my sympathy because it’s only going to get worse.
Cheap Trick called…privatization
Hey USPS, remember years ago…when the USPS outsourced the priority mail to EMORY.
Do you remember what happened?? I’ll refresh your memory, the USPS had to reclaim the mail and break the contract with EMORY.
Privatization will cost you more in the long run. This fact is proven to be true and documented.
Yeah, go Postal its the future
Yeah, go no benefits. It’s the future!
Yeah go low wages, its the future!
Yeah go private it’s the future