{"id":37255,"date":"2025-01-29T15:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=37255"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:41:03","slug":"house-introduces-anti-privatization-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/01\/29\/house-introduces-anti-privatization-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"House introduces anti-privatization resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nalc.org\/news\/nalc-updates\/house-introduces-anti-privatization-resolution\">NALC<\/a> &#8211; 1\/29\/25 &#8211; Reps. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) and Nick LaLota (R-NY) introduced a House resolution (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-resolution\/70?s=2&amp;r=1&amp;q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22h.res.70%22%7D\">H.Res. 70<\/a>) that calls on Congress to take all appropriate measures to ensure that the Postal Service remains an independent establishment of the federal government and not subject to privatization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLetter carriers take great pride in the work they do, providing universal service to every address in the nation,\u201d NALC President Brian L. Renfroe said. \u201cThe public service our members provide predates our nation\u2019s founding. Any effort to privatize USPS directly attacks universal service, a safe and reliable Postal Service, and the work our members do every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery member of Congress represents constituents who depend on the Postal Service. I urge every representative to sign on to this resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An identical bipartisan Senate resolution is expected to be introduced soon.<\/p>\n<h4>Take action<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app7.vocusgr.com\/WebPublish\/controller.aspx?SiteName=NALC&amp;Definition=FedHome&amp;SV_Section=Federal\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to ask your representative to co-sponsor H.Res. 70.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nalc.org\/government-affairs\/body\/Oppose-postal-privatization.pdf\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0for the fact sheet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NALC1aa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-29065\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NALC1aa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NALC1aa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NALC1aa-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NALC &#8211; 1\/29\/25 &#8211; Reps. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) and Nick LaLota (R-NY) introduced a House resolution (H.Res. 70) that calls on Congress to take all appropriate measures to ensure that the Postal Service remains an independent establishment of the federal government and not subject to privatization. \u201cLetter carriers take great pride in the work they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37255","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\/37255","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=37255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37256,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37255\/revisions\/37256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}