NALC

NALC Senate introduces misguided postal bill: Late on Thursday, the leaders of the Senate Homeland and Government Affairs Committee, Sens. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Tom Coburn (R-OK), introduced a postal reform bill, S. 1486. The NALC is reviewing the text of it in detail now, but at first glance we find that there are major problems with this proposed bill. We will post a more formal review of the bill in the coming days. (Congress is in recess through Sept. 9.)

APWU: Senate Postal Bill Betrays Workers, American People

The leaders of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), introduced postal legislation on Aug. 1, just before Congress adjourned for a five-week recess.

The APWU is reviewing the 194-page bill (S. 1486) and will provide a more complete analysis of the legislation once the review is complete. But after a quick review, President Cliff Guffey said, “This bill is fatally flawed. It betrays the working men and women of the United States Postal Service; it slashes service to the American people, and it fails to protect the USPS from the impending financial disaster Congress set in motion in 2006 with the passage of the PAEA.”