e-Team Report, May 12, 2012
S. 1789 Action Alert: Contact Your Representative Today
Contact your representative today and urge them to consider postal reform legislation immediately. Be sure to ask them to use the Senate bill (S.1789) as a starting point, not Congressman Issa’s (R-CA) harmful H.R. 2309. The moratorium on the closures of post offices and mail processing facilities ends in less than a week. This is why it is crucial that we call upon those who represent us in the House of Representatives to start moving forward with postal reform legislation now. APWU President Guffey offers, “I encourage all union members to contact their representatives and urge them to consider postal reform legislation immediately. Be sure to ask them to use the Senate bill as a starting point.” Urge your representative to reject H.R.2309 and instead begin deliberation on S. 1789. Send a message to them today!
To read more on the APWU’s website, click here.
GOP Votes Pay Cut For Postal, Federal Workers
The House of Representatives voted for a 5 percent cut in postal and federal workers’ pay on May 10 by approving an increase in employees' pension contributions. Republican members of the House provided all 218 votes in favor of the measure, while 183 Democrats and 16 Republicans opposed it.
To read more, please click here.
Warning to Postmaster- Do Not Preempt Congress
Congresswoman Rosa Delauro (D-CT), along with 105 of her congressional colleagues, sent a letter to Postmaster Donahoe urging the Postmaster not close post offices and processing facilities next week, after the moratorium ends on the 15th. Along with asking Postmaster Donahoe to halt those actions it also ask him to extend the moratorium until Congress has finished passing comprehensive postal reform legislation. Furthermore, the letter pointed out that the USPS should not “preempt Congressional action” by proceeding forward with the elimination of overnight delivery which, would allow the shuttering of hundreds of USPS processing facilities.
To read the letter and to see if your member in the House of Representatives signed on in support, please click here.
Fox News: Not So 'Fair and Balanced'
This week, Fox News broadcast a wildly inaccurate story, along with a so called “taxpayer calculator,” which claim that S.1789 paves the way for a taxpayer-funded bailout of the Post Office. The piece clearly aims to rally support for H.R. 2309. Fox admits in the segment that taxpayers do not pay one cent to support the Postal Service. Nothing in the recently passed S.1789 would change that.
To read about Fox’s fiction, click here.