Northrop Escapes FCA Suit Over Botched $874M USPS Order

Law360, New York (September 10, 2014) — A Virginia federal judge has agreed to dismiss a False Claims Act suit accusing Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. of misleading the U.S. Postal Service and failing to meet benchmarks in delivering worth $874 million. U.S. Judge T. S. Ellis III agreed with Northrop’s memorandum that no evidence exists that…

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Letter to the Editor: Postal Service under attack

(September 12, 2014) The U.S. Postal Service as we know it is continually under attack in this Congress. It is most important to understand the USPS has the dubious distinction of being the only employer, public or private, required by the federal government to prefund retirement health benefits for 75 years out, for workers not…

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NPMHU: Postal Unions and 21st Century Coalition Send Joint Letter to Key Senate Appropriators

On September 9, 2014, the NPMHU and its sister unions (APWU, NALC and NRLCA), along with a business coalition that employs over 7.5 million American workers in the mailing industry, wrote a joint letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee requesting that the Committee place language in the appropriations bill freezing for one year the USPS…

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EEOC commissioner: Nation still plagued by huge number of workplace sexual harassment cases

(September 10, 2014) Victoria Lipnic, commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – and a former assistant secretary of labor – said she was stunned when she arrived at the EEOC in 2010 and saw the huge number of sexual harassment complaints. That’s true still in every region of the nation, she said. “If…

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USPS OIG: Postal Service’s DRIVE Initiative 42 – Market New and Existing Services

Audit Report – DP-AR-14-005 – 09/10/2014 Background The U.S. Postal Service originally established 36 Delivering Results, Innovation, Value, and Efficiency (DRIVE) initiatives in fiscal year (FY) 2011 to improve its business strategy. DRIVE aims to reduce the reported $20 billion gap between revenue and expenses by 2016 through data-driven programs and effective project management. DRIVE…

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APWU: PMG Donahoe ‘Wanted’ in Salt Lake City

Web News Article #: 167-2014 09/11/2014 – If Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe thought his speech to a group of business mailers in Salt Lake City on Sept. 10 was going to be a quiet, uneventful affair, he was mistaken. A coalition of unions and postal customers showed up outside the Grand America Hotel, the site…

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