Speakerâs proposal to end Saturday mail as a means of paying for Highway Trust Fund puts jobs at risk WASHINGTON, D.C.  â U.S. Representatives Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree are calling on Speaker John Boehner to abandon a proposal to temporarily address the impending shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund by eliminating Saturday mail delivery. In a letter…
from Kori Blalock Keller, NALC Director of Legislative & Political Affairs Once again, Congress is dropping the ball on postal reform. Rather than working on legislation that fixes the crisis it created with the 2006 mandate to pre-fund future retiree health benefits, and rather than formulating smart reforms that will allow the Postal Service to…
The House majority leader also spells out the GOP’s June agenda. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says “a lot of misinformation” is circulating about a GOP proposal to cut Saturday postal delivery as a way to keep the Highway Trust Fund from going broke this summer, and he plans to clarify the plan for rank-and-file…
June 6, 2014 The Federal Highway Trust Fund, which provides for construction and maintenance of the nationâs roads, rail lines, and bridges, is expected to run out of money this summer. Â Should the fund run dry, important work on the nationâs transportation infrastructure would come to a halt. Not wanting to let a crisis go…
Web News Article #: 113-14 June 5, 2014 – In a âDear Colleaguesâ letter dated June 3, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) urged his fellow members of the House of Representatives to oppose a proposal to use Postal Service funds to help replenish the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) by ending Saturday mail delivery. The letter, sent to all…
Postal service on Saturday or paying for pothole patching? Thatâs the latest choice posed by House Republican leaders looking for ways to pump a bit of cash into the soon-to-be broken federal Highway Trust Fund. It comes down to fewer mail trucks rolling on Saturdays or less federal support for highway work seven days a…
June 2, 2014 In a letter urging Senators and Representatives to reject any proposal that would weaken the Postal Service, the National Presidents of the four Postal Unions collectively object to a proposal to use the United States Postal Service as an offset to fund the federal highway trust fund. The letter to House and…
Washington, D.C. (June 2, 2014) â Terry OâSullivan, General President of LIUNA â the Laborersâ International Union of North America â made the following statement today regarding the proposal by some House Republicans to patch the Highway Trust Fund: The idea of robbing the U.S. Postal Service to provide another duct-tape fix to our nationâs…
