President Hogrogian and Secretary-Treasurer Dwyer Meet with Presidential Task Force During 120 Day Study of USPS
5/16/2018 The Trump Administration issued an Executive Order creating a task force charged with evaluating the operations and finances of the U.S. Postal Service, covering topics like pricing, USPS policies, and workforce costs. Specifically, the Task Force is being chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury or his designee, and other members include the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and any other department or agency head the Chair may designate.
National President Paul Hogrogian and National Secretary-Treasurer Tim Dwyer, were invited to the Treasury Building on May 15, 2018 to meet with representatives of the Task Force. In attendance were a host of government officials designated not only by the Treasury Department, but also by OMB and OPM. The “listening session,” as the Task Force described it, was led by Kipp Kranbuhl, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Small Business, Community Development & Housing Policy, and Clay Berry, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for the Office of Financial Markets.
Hogrogian and Dwyer led the conversation, starting with a description of mail handlers, their work, and their contribution to the Postal Service. Because the NPMHU was the first outside stakeholder invited to meet with the Task Force, the Union also provided a short overview of USPS finances and its network operations since enactment of the PAEA in 2006, through the Great Recession of 2008, and in relation to the recent electronic diversion of mail volume. There also were discussions relating to ongoing legislative efforts at postal reform, the need to reject additional enforcement of pre-funding for retiree health or pension costs, the use of USPS assumptions in calculating unfunded liabilities, and the intrinsic value attributable to the existing USPS monopolies, the network infrastructure maintained by the Postal Service, and the need for continuing universal service.
Once the evaluation is completed, the Task Force is supposed to develop recommendations on administrative and legislative reforms for the Postal Service. Only time will tell whether this Task Force is able to stimulate appropriate reform, or whether its written report provides just another addition to the landfill of prior reports that were essentially pointless and therefore correctly ignored.
Every Federal employee that defends The RATPUBLICANS and Donald Dump must be glad that that the RATPUBLICANS want to take away their S.S. supplement and the COALS on the Federal Employees Retirement. Very nice you want to give up your retirement of$1,300 per month. Anything to help the rich. Just remember the rich will do anything to help you. They love fools!
Democrats are waiting in the wings with their DACA criminals to load up the Postal Circus with cheap labor if they get amnesty……..all the freed up cash will go in their pockets like the Feinstein/Blum No Bid Real Estate Sale Scam. it’s just what they do. how did Feinstein go to congress with a net worth of $300,000 dollars and is now worth $70 Million……….only the Democraps know for sure! same with Pelosi worth over $300 million? where is the buyout nancy? where is the buyout diane?
The employees must just except the cuts. The employees are expendable. They are just sources of cheap labor, not worthy of being treated with respect. They should just know their place! Only the rich, big time operators should be allowed to live the good life. Just as the Reverend Philip Moody once said ” The workers must understand they can enjoy the fruits of their labor after they are in heaven” So a worker must work like a trained circus animal their whole life for nothing. However they will be paid back after they are dead. While the rich can enjoy the fruits of other people’s labor while they are alive. Seems more than reasonable to me!
a day late and a dollar short as usual. all of a sudden they want to act as if they are representing us instead of being up po mismanagement’s ass. where have these tools been the last 40 years? get us a BUYOUT and do it NOW……..do you think these clowns even brought up the subject. President Trump raised the limit from 25K to 40K…..so what are these union thugs waiting for?
The union people only care about themselves They are using the system to their advantage for there own benefit that includes union stewards as well In the building I worked in the stewards get 5 hours union free time the union is a joke and a disgrace
Where r our MCC jobs that we were awarded 6 months ago. Why do we pay union dues
just get us a BUYOUT you tools!
not one word about an over staffed, corrupt po mismanagement that gets PFP bonus scam money for losing $BILLIONS……..that your company union working against you! they just want to keep the status quo and line their own pockets while the worker’s jobs, work environment, and pay goes down the crapper. typical of these thugs working hand and glove with evil po mismanagement.
From the President, the Congress, the stakeholders, the major mailers and the postal unions, they all have their own agenda. In the end, the real losers will be the American people when Universal Mail is ideologically reinterpret out of our US Constitution.