Postal Unions Urge Leadership to Support the Postal Service
In a document to Senate Democratic leadership, NPMHU, along with NALC, NRLCA, and APWU, urged elected leaders to consider the impact of COVID-19 on the United States Postal Service. As the United States economy is experiencing historical losses, the unions reminded Congress, the Postal Service is a vital communications resource to every business and American household, and it generates $1.4 trillion in sales and employs 7.5 million Americans.
The unions called for:
- A public service appropriation that would provide $7.1 billion a year to the Postal Service for two years in order to combat the oncoming recession;
- The full repeal of the retiree healthcare mandate;
- Create jobs by issuing a one-time appropriation to fund the manufacturing of a new fleet of vehicles to repleace 210,000 obsolete vehicles currently in use;
- Expand vote by mail and early voting options to ensure the democratic process is not interupted this election year.
Postal Unions Urge Senate Leadership to Support the Postal Service (pdf)
if you are looking for a General George Patton moment from the Postal Bureaucrats or the company unions……you are not going to get one. I have seen rudderless boats move through the water better. always remember the “in crowd” will want to protect the status quo at all costs. regarding the virus pandemic………what this soon to be gone PMG (thank God totally incompetent) is doing would be like sending the soldiers into the D-Day landings without guns or bullets….shameful boarding on criminal.
As of today, no precautions are taken to protect the Retail Window Associates. Large groups of customers are allowed freely into the lobbies. There is no social distancing between employees and customers or co-workers, more so in installations that are extremely small. Customers are returning from various locations picking up hold mail, when it should be delivered to them. The Postal Service should be encouraging customers to utilize stamps by mail and other on line services. This seems to only be offered to customers when the Post Office is reducing labor costs. Grocery stores are installing plastic shields to separate customers from Associates, why isn’t the Postal Service taking similar steps.
Does anyone really think many of the elected officials care about what happens to Postal,or any worker? The Ratpublicans just voted not to extend sick leave to many low wage workers. The Governor of Ohio closed bars and restaurants and said he understood the plight of the laid off employees. His solution of being laid off? The workers can file for unemployment he said with a smile! Why is it he continues to receive pay? Let him file for unemployment. Our ” great leader said that ” He is the war time president” What a joke!
You are correct that a little civility, can make a big change. I agree with
you that Postal workers lives matter, as do all workers lives. I like you
feel the loss of carriers lives with the junky llv’s condition. There are
many leaders that are paid to lead. Like all problems, we become part
of positive change, or not. The workers should get every chance to do
their job safely. The current standard is not cutting it for the workers, or
the public.
Why should they get more money to waste.
Dear Red
I do know these men, and women’s story somewhat. To white wash
all their efforts as a waste would be a total misstatement of facts, and history. I believe in civility because my stepfather was a famer, and Justice of the Peace. The point that he made was to be
accountable. I can only see their stories, as with mine as people who
walk in to all conditions with the belief of giving their best shot. Teddy Roosevelt story is theirs” The Man in The Arena”