Greg Bell, APWU Executive Vice President At Senate hearings in September on proposed postal legislation — legislation the APWU and the three other postal unions oppose — Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe made several statements that once again call his credibility into question. At a Sept. 19 hearing, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) said, “It is presently […]
Greg Bell, APWU Executive Vice President The Postal Service intends to make our struggle to save mail processing facilities a moot point. The decision by Postmaster General Patrick Donohoe to accelerate the consolidation of more than 70 mail processing plants that were originally scheduled for 2014 underscores the urgency of our struggle to get Congress […]
The National Academy of Public Administration, an organization chartered by Congress to provide advice to government leaders, recently evaluated a proposal to privatize all postal operations except delivery and concluded the idea “merits serious consideration. The original privatization proposal, which I wrote about in the March-April issue of The American Postal Worker, was written by […]