6/21/18 – NALC President Fredric Rolando criticized the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposal to privatize the United States Postal Service, which was released today.
“This report takes direct aim at numerous agencies including USPS under the guise of reforming and restructuring for the 21st century,” President Rolando said. “The White House is making very clear that privatization of the Postal Service is its goal, despite the fact that the stakeholder meetings with the White House Postal Task Force are ongoing.
“NALC has long been committed to working with all of the stakeholders and not one has floated the idea of privatization except private shippers, who would love nothing more than to see the Postal Service dismantled.
“NALC had high hopes in engaging with this administration and its Postal Task Force to address the underlying issues facing the Postal Service, which stem from the 2006 mandate to pre-fund future retiree health benefits. The NALC along with the other postal employee unions provided recommendations to the Task Force. We were hopeful that this administration was seeking real solutions to stabilize this agency with an 88 percent public approval rating where veterans make up almost 25 percent of its workforce.
“Now that we know that this administration and its Task Force will make recommendations on reforms to achieve OMB’s privatization goals, NALC will work tirelessly with other stakeholders and Congress to oppose this faulty privatization plan every step of the way to preserve this public institution, which is based in the Constitution.”
These 3 comments really sum up the problems of the USPS. It’s nice to see employees write about real problems rather than personal gripes. For an organization that cheats its’ employees at the bargaining table with claims of rising deficits and then has no shame in taking bonuses and having management awards dinners from the work done by craft employees should really be the ones to fear privatization. They will be the 1st to go!
I’m with the horses ass on this one, if you privatize the post office then all the dead wood ( non-carriers ) and their unions can be let go and the carriers can finally get a fair wage ( ups salaries ) once the privatized company doubles all the rates, like all the other countries privatized mail systems have done. Goodbye unprofitable FSS machines( just bundle in order of delivery, the magazines like they used to) and let the mail be sorted locally, so the carriers can start at a reasonable time, 9am doesn’t work. Get rid of the wasteful political mailings, eddm’s, junk mail and all those non-profit mailers scamming the seniors out of $$$$$,…. Just have 1 class of mail and parcels
Any new entity wishing to turn the USPS into a true for profit business, will need to clean house of the most worthless management at all levels, not much more can be said for the unions especially the NALC as they are in bed with management.
One positive result that privitazing the Postal Service would accomplish is end the stranglehold the APWU has on us. This would free up lots of cash now spent on grievances and too-high pay to the many workers who produce very little work and can’t be fired. Government has NEVER been known for efficiency.