Action Alert

CONTACT YOUR SENATOR NOW RE: AMENDMENTS TO S. 1789 WASHINGTON, DC – On November 9, 2011 at 10:00am, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will hold a mark-up of S. 1789, the postal reform legislation introduced by Sens. Lieberman (I-CT), Collins (R-ME), Carper (D-DE), and Brown (R-MA). Proposed amendments were released [...]

Click here to download the petition and collect signatures. Completed petitions must be mailed to your union headquarters by November 14th, 2011. Print out a petition and get as many signatures as you can—at least 10, but more even better Mail completed petitions to your union headquarters at the address below: NALCDepartment of Legislative and [...]

From Paul Swartz, NRLCA Director of Governmental Affairs: All, Thank you to everyone who participated in the Save America’s Postal Service rallies. I believe we did a great job getting Congress’ attention. Now, it is time we get the White House’s attention. The White House’s website is initiating a new program allowing citizens to petition [...]

Sen. McCain has filed an amendment (Amendment 488) to the “Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act” (S. 679) that, if adopted, would jeopardize the existence of small town and rural post offices. The Senate is beginning consideration of the bill TODAY. I have inserted the text of the amendment, which is similar to section 201 [...]

Now that the midterm elections are over we will see a big push on the Carper bill. If you havent sent your letter yet please do so now, and if you have, send them another one.. Carper has a hearing scheduled Dec. 2nd so we need to get busy!! http://www.petition2congress.com/2/3593/please-opposes-3831/ You can find a sample [...]

I have updated my action alert page with all of the latest legislation and added avenues to send emails and printed or handwritten letters. Most say that sending a real letter to them is better than email. I usually do both myself, and I sometimes pick up the phone and call them. And right now [...]

ACTION ALERT! Contact your Senators and Representatives to Urge Continuation of 6-Day Delivery Contact Your Legislator http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml House of Representativeshttp://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm United States Senatehttp://www.visi.com/juan/congress Contacting the Congress Below are UPDATED form letters to assist you in writing to your Congressmen. http://www.divshare.com/direct/10831705-3e8.doc Form Letter to Contact Representative(word) http://www.divshare.com/direct/10831707-c08.pdf Form Letter to Contact Representative(pdf) http://www.divshare.com/direct/10831706-03b.doc Form Letter to [...]

National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association: “Oppose S. 1507!In response to the anti-arbitrator amendment offered by Sen. Coburn (R-OK) and adopted by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the NRLCA is mobilizing its members to write and call their Senators to urge them to OPPOSE S. 1507! Sample letters are being provided by the [...]

Ok, everyone, I cannot stress enough how much you need to contact your Senators. They held a hearing today, and they went back and forth over the amendments added to S. 1507. Let me be clear, if this bill passes that require arbitrators to consider the “financial heath” of the USPS during Contract negotiations, then [...]

S. 1507 Passes Out of Senate with Anti-Labor Amendment As many of you already know, last Thursday, July 30, the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee marked up S. 1507, a bill to provide temporary financial relief to the United States Postal Service by allowing them to pay for retiree health benefits from the Retiree [...]

National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association: “S. 1507 Passes out of Senate Committee with Anti-Labor Amendment WASHINGTON, DC — On Thursday, July 30th, 2009, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted out S. 1507, which would provide financial relief to the Postal Service. A vote of 12-1 in favor of the legislation was cast. [...]