Senate Appropriations OKs 10-year credit monitoring for feds

By Lauren Larson – July 22, 2015 (Updated July 23, 2015) The Senate Appropriations Committee approved an amendment today to give victims of the Office of Personnel Management data breaches no less than 10 years of identity and credit-monitoring services and $5 million in liability protection for related damages. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved an…

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APWU: Reps. Cummings, Lynch Are Latest to Request Moratorium on USPS Service Cuts

Web News Article #: 206-2014 11/12/2014 – Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) and Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) are the latest in a long list of members of Congress calling for a moratorium on reductions in postal service standards and the closure of mail processing plants. The congressmen urged leaders of the House Appropriators Committee to…

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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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Senators Seek to Protect 15,000 Postal Jobs

A group of lawmakers is urging colleagues who are drafting spending bills to prohibit the U.S. Postal Service from moving forward with its plan to close 80 more processing facilities. The Postal Service announced last month that in January 2015 it would begin the previously delayed second phase of its “network rationalization” plan. Twenty-two senators…

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APWU: Senate Can Help Stop Service Cuts & Plant Closures – Urgent Action is Required!

On June 30th, USPS announced its intention to close and consolidate 82 mail processing facilities in 37 states throughout the country beginning in January 2015.  Today, August 1st, 2014, service standard changes were printed in the federal register ending overnight mail service for the entire country, effective January 2015.  If not stopped, this move threatens…

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