A CALL TO ACTION: You must make phone calls to your two Senators to tell them to Vote NO! on Senate Bill 1486: The Postal Reform Act of 2014. And you must do it today! By Chuck Zlatkin Legislative and Political Director As the largest local in the American Postal Workers Union, the New York Metro Area Postal Union has taken a strong stand in opposition to the passage of S. 1486, the Postal Reform Act of 2014. This bill threatens the Postal Service, your job, your benefits and your retirement. When this bill comes to the floor of the Senate, it is imperative that every one of the members of the Senate who represent NYMAPU members must vote NO! on this legislation. To make sure that happens, you must make sure that you, not only call your Senators yourself, but make a concerted effort to get your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers to call as well. In New York call: Senator Charles Schumer, 202-224-6542; Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, 202-224-4451. New Jersey: Senator Cory Booker, 202-224-3224; Senator Robert Menendez, 202-224-4744. Connecticut: Senator Richard Blumenthal, 202-224-2823; Senator Chris Murphy, 202-224-4041. Pennsylvania: Senator Bob Casey, Jr., 202-224-6324; Senator Pat Toomey, 202-224-4254. Call both of your Senators. And when you call, state that you are a constituent of the Senator and that you want your comment reported. Volunteer to give your name and address even if you are not asked for it. This will prove that you are a constituent and it will facilitate your Senator responding to you on this issue. Talking points: The so-called Postal Reform Act of 2014, S. 1486 does nothing to guarantee that the American people will retain adequate mail service into the future. What it does do is mandate that the Postal Service further reduce service to the people who most depend upon it: the elderly, the disabled, the poor, people who live in rural areas, and small business owners. It mandates that the Postal Service continue to degrade delivery standards, close and consolidate mail processing facilities, eliminate Saturday delivery, and deny door-to-door mail delivery to new businesses and households After failing to correct the crippling impact that pre-funding of future employees health care has had on the financial health of the Postal Service, this legislation replicates the punitive pre-funding fiasco, by now mandating that the USPS pre-fund workers compensation in the amount of $17 billion. As the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act singled out the Postal Service for special financial burdens that no other government agency, private business or organization has been required to carry out, the Postal Reform Act inexplicably does the same. The Postal Reform Act threatens 100,000 living wage postal jobs. It includes pension cuts and weakens workers rights in upcoming contract negotiations and exposes the most seriously injured postal workers to impoverishment once they reach retirement age. Not only is the Postal Service worth saving, it can done without cost to the American taxpayer, by removing the undue pre-funding requirements and overpayments into pension funds, and utilizing the infrastructure and network that exists to provide the mail service to the American people that they deserve. The January 217, 2014 Office of the Inspector General of the USPS White Paper: Providing Non-Bank Financial Services for the Underserved is a perfect example. The report states that the adding of these services by the Postal Service could generate $8.9 billion in new revenue, while providing essential services to the most vulnerable of our citizens, with no cost to the taxpayers. Rather than the Postal Reform Act of 2014, the Postal Service and the American people need legislation that will maintain and strengthen postal services, not legislation that weakens those services. The Postal Reform Act of 2014 will enable the destruction of the Postal Service as we know it, and it will facilitate the privatization of its remains by those who care more about profit than serving the needs of the American people. Forward this email STAY CONNECTED Forward this email This email was sent to lenoradarnell@yahoo by [email protected] | Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribeâ„¢ | Privacy Policy. NY Metro Area Postal union | 350 W. 31st Street | 3rd Floor | New York | NY | 10001
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 15:50:31 +0000
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