{"id":20267,"date":"2017-07-20T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=20267"},"modified":"2017-07-20T09:30:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T14:30:53","slug":"nalc-statement-regarding-letter-carrier-political-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/07\/20\/nalc-statement-regarding-letter-carrier-political-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC Statement Regarding Letter Carrier Political Activity During 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"meta\">\n<p><time datetime=\"2017-07-19\">July 19, 2017<\/time><\/p>\n<h2>NALC statement regarding July 19 Senate hearing<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee conducted a hearing calling into question the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s longstanding policy of approving leave without pay (LWOP)\u00a0for\u00a0employees to participate in political activity, most recently in\u00a02016.<\/p>\n<p>While not party to\u00a0today\u2019s hearing, NALC will submit a statement for the record to address the legitimacy and accuracy of some of the data and statements from the investigation and the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>NALC also will monitor these proceedings to protect our right to continue representing the views of ours members across the political spectrum consistent with the law.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10984 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NALC-LOGO-Large-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NALC-LOGO-Large-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NALC-LOGO-Large-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NALC-LOGO-Large-266x266.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 19, 2017 NALC statement regarding July 19 Senate hearing &nbsp; Today, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee conducted a hearing calling into question the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s longstanding policy of approving leave without pay (LWOP)\u00a0for\u00a0employees to participate in political activity, most recently in\u00a02016. While not party to\u00a0today\u2019s hearing, NALC will submit a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20271,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions\/20271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}