USPS Wants to Lay-Off 20% of the Postal Workforce!

Wants to remove Postal Workers from Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), and separate USPS employees from federal retirement programs.

APWU President Cliff Guffey

Indiana Postal Workers Union President Doug Brown

“By 2015, the USPS intends to reduce the employee complement by 220,000, and projects that 100,000 jobs will be eliminated by attrition. “In order to eliminate the remaining 120,000 career positions... it is imperative that we have the ability to reduce our workforce rapidly,” as in Lay-Off…GlennDL

To return to financial stability, the Postal Service seeks legislative changes to allow for network and workforce adjustments. Legislative action is needed to do the following:

• Allow the Postal Service to establish its own health benefits program. Divide and conquer. Separate the Postal Workers from the rest of the Federal Workers and the end result would be two smaller targets for the small government radicals and pro-privatizers. Plus the creation of a separate ‘insurance pool’ would mean higher premiums. Last but not least, do you want the same people who run the Post Office to run your Health Care program? Heaven help us… GlennDL.
• Allow the Postal Service to administer its own retirement system. They want to lay-off 120,000 workers who move the mail but create more administrative jobs? Since when did getting into the health insurance and retirement benefits business become a solution for our problems?… GlennDL
• Give the Postal Service the ability to adjust the size of its workforce to match operational needs and the changing marketplace. They harp about a changing workforce and marketplace, but they have removed, and continue to remove flexibility by sub-contracting work out to entity’s that they don’t control. Binding contracts that come with same long term commitments implied in all government contracts. Lowest bidder with profit motivations. The recent APWU contract has those flexibilities reasonably built in with PSE and NTFTEs. These proposals will probably scuttle any chance of getting such flexibility from NALC or NPMHU’s during their contract talks….GlennDL

APWU President Cliff Guffey reiterated his call for postal employees to contact their U.S. representatives and urge them to support H.R. 1351, and oppose H.R. 2309.  

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Remember this: If Congress opens the door to void the no-lay-off protection in our contract the same door let’s them have access to Seniority rights in determining the lay-off process…once that door opens its open season on our entire contract.

ITS YOUR JOB on the line now, just like those teachers in Wisconsin, Indian and Michigan!

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