Let You Member of Congress Know How You Really Feel About the 2018 Budget Call your legislator today at 844-402-1001 08/22/2017 – Members of Congress are home for a couple weeks during their summer recess. We are asking you to reach out to your Representative and urge them to reject the proposed federal budget! Call […]
5/24/17 The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a proposed 2018 budget for the federal government May 23. Here’s an update from the Postal Service: We are still analyzing the proposed budget to determine what impact it might have on the Postal Service and our employees in the event it becomes law. In […]
Postmasters, Postal Workers, Retirees and the Federal Community Dodge Budget Bullet May 8, 2015 Postmasters may have evaded an early 2015 attack on federal health and retirement programs. Our work to educate Members of Congress during the Leadership Conference and at subsequent political events – particularly regard member of the Senate – paid a meaningful […]
For the past three years, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been trotting out the same conservative, top-down policies that have failed the nation’s middle- and working-class families, seniors, and the economy. The House Republican budget is built around the tenet that nearly everyone else must sacrifice in order to continue to give […]
The postal provisions in the budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on April 1 are a “thinly-veiled attempt to plunder the Postal Service — to slash service, cut workers’ benefits, and render our great national treasure ripe for privatization,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. They’re also based on a fallacy, Dimondstein points out: The […]
The bipartisan budget agreement, approved by the House of Representatives on Thursday and expected to be considered by the Senate this coming week, will affect postal employees in at least four ways. First, it will require new (and only new) federal and postal employees to contribute more toward their retirement benefits. Current employees will not […]
Dec. 11, 2013—NALC grassroots activists and the American public scored a huge victory on Tuesday when efforts to include elimination of Saturday mail delivery in the emerging budget agreement for 2014 failed. National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando reacted with gratitude and relief. “Thanks to the thousands of dedicated letter carriers, citizens and […]
Congressional budget negotiators are engaged in closed-door deal-making that could reduce the take-home pay of postal workers and federal employees; reduce retirement benefits; eliminate postal jobs, and weaken the Postal Service, APWU leaders have learned. President Mark Dimondstein is asking all union members — and their families and friends — to contact their U.S. senators […]
…from Jennifer Warburton, NALC Director of Legislative and Political Affairs Nov. 12, 2013—As House and Senate budget conferees get to work on a federal budget deal, there are many rumors floating about town on what will be included in it. With a deadline of January 15, 2014, discussions are well under way. I believe it […]