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…
(July 28, 2014) Congress is once again engaged in a fight over whether the U.S. Postal Service should deliver mail on Saturdays. But all the wrangling just goes to show that this should be a business decision, not a political decision. The Postal Service has been struggling for years with high labor costs and declining…
(July 7, 2014) Letter writing has received an endorsement from the commander in chief. President Obama went to Minneapolis last month to meet Rebekah Erler, a Minnesota mother of two who wrote to him about her familyâs financial struggles. âIâm pretty sure this is a silly thing to do, to write a president,â Erlerâs letter…
The Supreme Court’s rebuke Thursday of President Obama’s appointments to the National Labor Relations Board has thrown hundreds of decisions made while the agency was unconstitutionally constructed into doubt. [READ SUPREME COURT’S RULING.] Having to revisit those verdicts could draw the labor board away from its agenda, to the delight of Republicans and business groups…
Leading congressional Republicans strongly support U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoeâs plan to save $2 billion a year by eliminating Saturday letter delivery. Yet on Wednesday, party members defied their leadership and joined Democrats to pass an amendment to the House appropriations bill that would keep letters, bills, and junk mail flowing six days a week….
The House has taken a major step to allow the U.S. Postal Service to eliminate Saturday mail delivery. The Financial Services and General Government Appropriations subcommittee — headed by Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla. — did not include a rider in its version of the fiscal 2015 funding bill to require USPS to deliver mail six…
With only two months before a crucial fund for highway projects nationwide is tapped, House Republicans and the White House touted dueling plans Tuesday aimed at avoiding a late-July construction shutdown. Speaker John A. Boehner told Republicans in a private morning meeting that leadershipâs plan to raise cash for a temporary $15 billion road fix…
The shift would benefit both motorists and the USPS, Republican leaders argue. House Republicans are constructing a proposal to keep thousands of road and transit projects from grinding to a halt this summer by transferring funds into the nation’s nearly depleted Highway Trust Fund from the already money-losing U.S. Postal Service. But in a memo…
