Tomorrow the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Chairman Darrell Issa, will be marking up Issa’s postal reform bill. This bill, in its current form, will be harmful to rural letter carriers, bad for the Postal Service, and a step toward privatization. This bill includes the modified delivery proposed by Postmaster General Donahoe earlier this year, which will eliminate Saturday mail delivery. As the USPS and others have failed to consider continued transportation and labor costs for Saturday package delivery, as well as lost any revenue from potential changes, some have questioned whether this proposal saves any money at all. The proposed bill impedes on the collective bargaining process, a process that has been mutually beneficial to both the USPS and the postal unions for over 40 years. The legislation forces all collective bargaining into a mediation-arbitration process and states that any agreement reached with the USPS could be amended to lower wages and benefits for employees like yourself. Issa’s bill would require any arbitrator to take in account pay comparability with the private sector and the financial condition of the USPS. The legislation also interferes with current collect bargaining agreements by requiring postal workers to pay the same premium contribution that other federal workers now pay for health insurance benefits and clarifies the existing compensation parity required to exist between postal and private sector workers. Issa’s bill also prospectively bans the USPS from entering into no-layoff clauses with the postal unions, subjecting Postal employees to the same Reduction-in-Force authority as the rest of the federal workforce. This language, along with language encouraging additional facility closures and delays in service, is simply unreasonable and harmful to rural letter carriers nationwide. Listed below are the members of this committee. If there are any from your state, please contact them and encourage them to OPPOSE this bill in its current form, as it will only further hurt the Postal Service, its customers, and its employees. REPUBLICANS Rep. Darrell Issa (CA-49) 202-225-3906 Rep. John Mica (FL-07) 202-225-4035 Rep. Michael Turner (OH-03) 202-225-6465 Rep. John J. Duncan (TN-02) 202-225-5435 Rep. Patrick T. McHenry (NC-10) 202-225-2576 Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-04) 202-225-2676 Rep. Jason Chaffetz (UT-03) 202-225-7751 Rep. Tim Walberg (MI-7) 202-225-6276 Rep. James Lankford (OK-5) 202-225-2132 Rep. Justin Amash (MI-3) 202-225-3831 Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ-1) 202-225-2315 Rep. Pat Meehan (PA-7) 202-225-2011 Rep. Scott DesJarlais (TN-4) 202-225-6831 Rep. Trey Gowdy (SC-4) 202-225-6030 Rep. Blake Farenthold (TX-27) 202-225-7742 Rep. Doc Hastings (WA-04) 202-225-5816 Rep. Cynthia Lummis (WY) 202-225-2311 Rep. Rob Woodall (GA-07) 202-225-4272 Rep. Thomas Massie (KY-04) 202-225-3465 Rep. Doug Collins (GA-09) 202-225-9893 Rep. Mark Meadows (NC-11) 202-225-6401 Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (MI-11) 202-225-8171 Rep. Ron DeSantis (FL-06) 202-225-2706 DEMOCRATS Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD-7) 202-225-4741 Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY-12) 202-225-7944 Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.) 202-225-8050 Rep. John Tierney (MA-6) 202-225-8020 Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (MO-1) 202-225-2406 Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA-9) 202-225-8273 Rep. Jim Cooper (TN-5) 202-225-4311 Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA-11) 202-225-1492 Rep. Jackie Speier (CA-12) 202-225-3531 Rep. Matt Cartwright (PA-17) 202-225-5546 Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-2) 202-225-2906 Rep. Tammy Duckworth (IL-8) 202-225-3711 Rep. Danny K. Davis (IL-7) 202-225-5006 Rep. Peter Welch (VT) 202-225-4115 Rep. Tony Cardenas (CA-29) 202-225-6131 Rep. Steve Horsford (NV-4) 202-225-9894 Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-1) 202-225-6316 please help!
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 02:46:32 +0000
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