Excerpt: Speak Out! Postal Reform Bill Approved by House Oversight Committee NARFE strongly urges its members to contact their legislators and ask them to oppose the Postal Reform Act of 2017 in its current form. This bill forces current postal retirees onto Medicare in order to keep their federal health insurance coverage and sets a…
Via John P. Richards, President – Pittsburgh Area Retiree Chapter of the APWU: Excerpt – A number of retiree organizations, including NARFE, have come out in strong opposition to HR 756, arguing that if enacted the law will destroy the fabric of our health insurance as we know it, and may take the entire Federal…
Background The U.S. Postal Service provides pension and health insurance benefits to its retirees. Postal Service employees participate in the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) or Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) pension programs. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) administers these programs, including projecting future CSRS and FERS assets and liabilities for the federal government…
The bill currently working it’s way through Congress is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It relies on the fact that most people don’t know the history of employer bankruptcy, and how the working people get screwed by the judicial system during these proceedings. My cousin is married to a former airline pilot, who worked for…
One of the issues involved in HR 756 is what is in it for the membership of the APWU? I came to work for the old Post Office Department in 1968, and left in 2012. I represented the APWU for a good part of that time. Our experience during that time should show us that…
Via John P. Richards, President – APWU Pittsburgh Area Retiree Chapter SOLD OUT? The retiree establishment within the Union is abuzz over the administration’s embracing and supporting HR 756, known as the Postal Service Reform Act. This law, if enacted in it’s current draft, will drastically change our health ‘insurance’ delivery system. Several of many…
By Steve Pociask – April 17, 2017 Despite a lot of big ticket consumer-oriented issues coming into focus for Congress lately, like healthcare and tax reform, it is also apparent that the United States Postal Service (USPS) and its chaotic operations have also had the attention of some legislators on Capitol Hill. For the new…
With a Republican Congress and Republican Administration, past cuts to USPS operations and Union members were threatened even further. Postal Unions had to cut some sort of deal to pay the blackmailers one way or the other in hopes they would go away. So it was agreed by all that tens of thousands of postal…
