Audit Report – DP-AR-14-004 – 08/27/2014 Background The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) maintains four risk models containing 41 risk elements related to Post Office™ operations. The OIG uses these risk elements, which measure financial, operational, and human resources activity, to evaluate overall risk and periodically shares the evaluations with senior U.S….
Web News Article #: 159-140 8/29/2014 Labor Day is a good time to reflect on the achievements of workers and the contributions unions have made to our lives – from abolishing child labor to establishing a minimum wage, healthcare, retirement benefits, workplace safety and more. It’s also a good time to renew our determination to…
America’s biggest union organization has agreed that no member will endorse a 2016 presidential candidate until they have all agreed on one. The deal, announced by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Thursday, is intended to avoid the disagreement that plagued the Democratic field in 2008. “We have signed an agreement with all of the unions…
Benjamin Franklin must have been the coolest guy in the world to hang out with at a coffee shop. He had the brilliance to look at the small stuff (and had to invent bifocals to do it) while seeing the big picture: America can be the strongest and most democratic country in the world, he…
The Post Office grew revenues 2 percent in the third fiscal quarter of 2014, raking in $16.5 billion in operating revenue. (Hurray!) But it still managed to lose $2 billion on its business. (Boo!) So what’s the real story with the United States Postal Service? Is business booming, or is the Post Office going bust?…
(August 28, 2014) AURORA, Colo. – When Mary Jane Tardif mailed a birthday gift to her daughter on July 15, she thought it would only take a few days to get to its intended destination in Lafayette California. She’s still waiting for it to get there. The Aurora woman told 7NEWS that when she went…
By now, anyone who’s paid attention to what has optimistically been called the “American labor movement” is aware that organized labor is in critical need of resuscitation and revitalization, if not downright reinvention. Despite its storied history — and it being the only friend that working men and women have ever had (note the undeniable…
(August 28, 2014) Even as some lawmakers push to limit Postal Service cost-cutting measures, the agency still plans to reduce its workforce by up to 15,000 employees and close up to 82 processing centers. On Aug. 14, a bipartisan group of 50 senators and 10 House lawmakers wrote a letter demanding Congress prohibit the Postal…
