Result of S 1789 NALC Amendments voted on in the Senate
Amendment 2034 (Senator Akaka - Dem HI)
To provide appropriate workers compensation for Federal employees.
46 For / 53 Against
Amendment Rejected
Senator Boxer - For
Senator Feinstein - For
Amendment 2043 (Senator Udall - Dem NM)
To strike the limitations on changes to mail delivery schedule (Preserve 6 Day Delivery). 43 For / 56 Against
Amendment Rejected
Senator Boxer - For
Senator Feinstein - Against
Amendment 2050 (Senators Schumer & Gillibrand- Dem NY)
To preserve current home and business door delivery.
Amendment was passed by voice vote and incorporated into the final bill.
Result of Anti-Union S 1789 amendments voted on in the Senate
Amendment 2039 (Senator Paul - Rep KY)
To prohibit employees of the United States Postal Service from engaging in collective bargaining.
23 For / 76 Against
Amendment Rejected
Senator Boxer - Against
Senator Feinstein - Against
Amendment 2028 (Senator Paul - Rep KY)
To establish a pilot program to test alternative methods for the delivery of postal services. (Contracting Out)
35 For / 64 Against
Amendment Rejected
Senator Boxer - Against
Senator Feinstein - Against
Amendment 2025 (Senator Paul - Rep KY)
To end the mailbox use monopoly.
35 For / 64 Against
Amendment Rejected
Senator Boxer - Against
Senator Feinstein - Against
Amendment 2083 (Senator Corker - Rep TN)
To improve the bill. (That was to be done though not prohibiting the Postal Service from taking any action necessary to provide a 5 day delivery schedule & by any collective-bargaining agreements ratified after passage of this legislation shall not contain a no lay-off clause).
29 For / 70 Against
Amendment Rejected
Senator Boxer - Against
Senator Feinstein - Against
Amendment 2061 (Senator Coburn - Rep OK)
To achieve long-term cost-savings by allowing the Postmaster General to reduce the postal workforce through mandatory retirements for eligible employees.(Without incentives)
33 For / 65 Against
Amendment Rejected
Senator Boxer - Against
Senator Feinstein - Against
Amendment 2046 (Senator DeMint - Rep SC)
Paycheck Deception
46 For / 53 Against
Amendment Rejected
Senator Boxer - Against
Senator Feinstein - Against
Governor Brown Signs CSALC-Sponsored Bill
Governor Jerry Brown just signed into law AB 1343. This legislation was written and sponsored by the California State Association of Letter Carriers and introduced for us by Assemblyman Paul Fong. This bill will increase the opportunity California permanent vote by mail voters will be able to remain on the roles and receive a mail ballot from 8 years to 16 years.
AB 1343 (Fong)
Vote by mail: procedures: permanent vote by mail voters: failure to return ballot. Existing law provides for a voter to become qualified as a permanent vote by mail voter. Under existing law, a permanent vote by mail voter will be deleted from the list of qualified permanent vote by mail voters if the voter fails to return an executed vote by mail ballot in 2 consecutive statewide general elections.
This bill would, instead, require that a permanent vote by mail voter be removed from the list of qualified permanent vote by mail voters if the voter fails to return an executed vote by mail ballot in 4 consecutive statewide general elections.
H Res 137 Re-introduced!
(Bill protects 6-day Delivery Service)
NALC supported legislation, H Res 137, a bill expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of its 6-day mail delivery service, has been re-introduced by Congressman Sam Graves (R-MO).
While this is a great start we need to continue to push this legislation so that we have every House member in California signed on.
Currently H Res 137 has 206 co-sponsors (33 from California).
If your member is one of the remaining 20 California Congressional Representatives, listed below, that has yet to cosponsor our legislation please write them and ask them to please save 6-day delivery and co-sponsor H Res 137 (below is a sample letter to use as a guideline when mailing your member).
Members that still need to cosponsor H Res 137:
Herger, Wally CD 2Lungren, Dan CD 3
McClintock, Tom CD 4
Pelosi, Nancy CD 8
Denham, Jeff CD 19
Nunes, Devin CD 21
McCarthy, Kevin CD 22
McKeon, Buck CD 25
Dreier, David CD 26
Waxman, Henry CD 30
Becerra, Xavier CD 31
Royce, Ed CD 40
Lewis, Jerry CD 41
Miller, Gary CD 42
Bono-Mack, Mary CD 45
Rohrabacher, Dana CD 46
Campbell, John CD 48
Issa,Darrell CD 49
Bilbray, Brian CD 50
Hunter, Duncan CD 52
Sample Letter H Res 137
Honorable (Representatives Name)
United States House of Representatives
(Representatives Local District Office Address)
(Date)
Dear Congressman (or Congresswoman) ______________:
I live in (City) and I am a member of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch __________ and a constituent of your congressional district.
6-day mail delivery service is an essential service that the American people have relied on since 1912. Reducing mail delivery service to 5 days a week would inevitably cause not only delays in the delivery of mail, but higher postal costs, due to the many hours of additional overtime that the Postal Service would require in order to handle the resulting back-up of mail.
Also, our senior citizens rely heavily upon the steady delivery of mail service 6 days a week. Social Security is the primary or sole source of income for many senior citizens, and any delay in the delivery of their Social Security checks would make it difficult for them to purchase even essential items, such as food and medicine.
Taking into account these items and other serious consequences that would result from reducing mail delivery services I am asking you to please sign on as a cosponsor or H Res 137. This bill, sponsored by Representative Samuel Graves, expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of its 6-day mail delivery service. Thank you for your consideration of this request. A return response to this letter would be sincerely appreciated. Thank you.
Sincerely,
(Your Name)
(Your full Mailing Address)
HR 1351 Introduced!
Legislation would return Civil Service overpayments back to the USPS
On April 5, 2011 Representative Issa, and his anti-union colleagues on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, held a hearing attacking the collective-bargaining process between the USPS and the APWU. On this same day Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA), who is also a member of this same committee offered a different solution to the growing financial crisis faced by the USPS by introducing H.R. 1351, the USPS Pension Obligation Recalculation and Restoration Act.
H.R. 1351 would fairly recalculate the USPS surplus in the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) & would return assets paid for by RATEPAYER and EMPLOYEE contributions to the Postal Service's sub-account in the CSRS. This bill, if passed and signed into law, would take the necessary first steps needed towards ensuring a financially sound future for the United States Postal Service.
Currently HR 1351 has 226 co-sponsors (34 from California).
If your member is one of the remaining 19 California Congressional Representatives, listed below, that has yet to cosponsor our legislation please write them and ask them to do so today (below is a sample letter to use as a guideline when mailing your member).
Members that still need to cosponsor HR 1351:
Herger, Wally CD 2Lungren, Dan CD 3
McClintock, Tom CD 4
Denham, Jeff CD 19
Nunes, Devin CD 21
McCarthy, Kevin CD 22
Gallegly, Elton CD 24
McKeon, Buck CD 25
Dreier, David CD 26
Royce, Ed CD 40
Lewis, Jerry CD 41
Miller, Gary CD 42
Calvert, Ken CD 44
Bono-Mack, Mary CD 45
Rohrabacher, Dana CD 46
Campbell, John CD 48
Issa, Darrell CD 49
Bilbray, Brian CD 50
Hunter, Duncan CD 52
HR 1351 Sample Letter
Honorable (Representatives First & Last Name)
United States House of Representatives
(Local Street Address)
(City, State, Zip)
(Date)
Dear Representative ________________:
My name is _______ and I live in (City). I work as a letter carrier for the United States Postal Service.I am writing you concerning the continuing fiscal crisis the United States Postal Service is facing due to its required obligation to prefund its future retiree health benefits for employees who have not even yet been hired.
This requirement, which stands at over 4 billion dollars annually, has dramatically saddled the Postal Service operating income which has affected service to the very patrons who rely on our delivery. It has also caused the postal service to consider closing and/or consolidating hundreds of Post Offices across the nation.H.R. 1351 has recently been introduced by Congressman Stephen Lynch to address this decades-old accounting error that led the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to overcharge the Postal Service, by billions of dollars, for payments into the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). H.R. 1351 does not repeal or in any way address the legally mandated pre-funding payments into the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefit Fund (PSRHBF), it simply fixes the massive over-funding to the Postal CSRS.
As a constituent I am asking your support to help fix the financial crisis the Postal Service is experiencing in large part as a result of these miscalculations by cosponsoring H.R. 1351.
Thank you for your consideration of this request. A return response to this letter would be sincerely appreciated.
Thank you.
Sincerely,(Your Name)
(Your full Mailing Address)