Eric Katz – December 23, 2016 The U.S. Postal Service could finally have its payments into the federal employee pension account calculated using assumptions from its workforce specifically, rather than the federal workforce as a whole, which has long been a sticking point at the mailing agency. USPS leadership has for years argued its payments…
(June 15, 2015) In a joint letter to the Department of Labor, Postal Union Presidents Paul V. Hogrogian (NPMHU), Fredric V. Rolando (NALC), Mark Dimondstein (APWU), and Jeanette Dwyer (NRLCA) object to the department’s unjustified proposal to reduce workers’ compensation benefits. The four Union Presidents call on the Obama administration and the Department of Labor…
Feb. 2, 2015âToday, the Obama administration introduced its $4 trillion budget proposal for the federal government in Fiscal Year 2016, which begins on Oct. 1, 2015. The proposal outlines the presidentâs spending and tax priorities for the next fiscal year, as well as reform proposals for agencies such as the U.S. Postal Service. Congress is…
Here’s how crazy the pursuit of postal reform has gotten in recent months. First, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), frequent critic of the Obama Administration, sent a letter to ranking minority member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) urging him and his fellow Democrats to join Republican members in a bipartisan revision of his postal reform bill that…
The Obama Administration and House Republicans donât agree about much, but both say the U.S. Postal Service, which reported a $5 billion loss last yearâlargely because it is expected to prefund its future retiree health-care benefitsâshould do away with Saturday letter delivery to save money. That probably makes sense at a time when postal operations…
Postal Service has long resisted offering banking services. Here’s why they — and we — could live to regret it Through a combination of sloth, tentativeness and nonchalance, policymakers are squandering the chance to institute postal banking, which could bring tens of millions of Americans out of the financial dark ages, save them billions of…
