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All Postal Workers: Carriers, Clerks, Maintenance, MVS, Mail Handlers, Supervisors and Post Masters should attend.
The following is provided by Doug Brown, IPWU President:
Sent out on behalf of Doug Brown, President, IPWU – This may be your last best chance to let our voices be heard while congress is in recess, please make every effort to get as many members – officers – stewards to this meeting!
The National Association of Retired Federal Employees has set up a meeting with Indiana's elected House and Senate members of Congress to discuss the recent USPS announcement of studying removing Postal Workers from the Federal Retirement System. All of Indiana's representatives have confirmed either their presence or an aid.
The APWU needs a large crowd to sway Congressional support for the retention of keeping us in the retirement system and the FEHB. We also need support for HR 1351.
The meeting will be held in Indianapolis on Monday, August 22, at the Ft Harrison Complex. The address is 5830 N Post Rd. and will be held in the Roosevelt Ballroom from 1:30 to 3:30.
All supporters of the APWU are encouraged to attend. Bring a bus load if you can to make our voice heard. We are running out of time and options. Congress must act to save our valued institution known as the USPS.
Thank you. Doug Brown/President Indiana Postal Workers Union
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.
CLICK HERE to Contact Your Representative via E-Mail or Printed Letter THEN CLCIK HERE to get address and phone numbers to contact your Representative, Senator and the President THEN CLICK the FaceBOOK icon below to share this information on FaceBook. THEN EMAIL this link to your email list: http://www.ial130.org/2011/08/usps-wants-to-lay-off-20-of-postal.html?utm_source=BP_recent and tell them to do the same to save your job. 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!
Equipped with half truths and misinformation, Tea Party Republicans have joined the other anti worker pro-privatization republicans in promoting the dismantling of the Postal Service and vilification of Postal Workers. TeaParty.net and the conservative Council for Citizens Against Government Waste are promoting Republicans Dennis Ross (FL.) and Darrell Issa’s (CA.) H.R.2309 legislation:
“With misguided zeal, Tea Party and conservative groups are supporting legislation that would undermine a vital public service — the world’s largest, most trusted, most efficient, and least expensive postal system. We must ensure they don’t succeed.” — APWU Legislative and Political Director Myke Reid
Postal Workers need to contact their Congressional Representatives and demand they support H.R.1351 instead.
