{"id":37636,"date":"2025-03-25T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=37636"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:35:26","slug":"nalc-statement-on-dejoys-exit-from-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/03\/25\/nalc-statement-on-dejoys-exit-from-usps\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC statement on DeJoy\u2019s exit from USPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NALC President Brian L. Renfroe issued the following statement regarding Postmaster General Louis DeJoy&#8217;s exit from the Postal Service:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3\/24\/25 &#8211; Today was Postmaster General Louis DeJoy&#8217;s last day at the Postal Service. During his tenure, NALC worked in good faith with DeJoy on behalf of our 295,000 active and retired members.<\/p>\n<p>The USPS Board of Governors&#8217; search for a new leader of the agency comes at a critical time for letter carriers and everyone who depends on our service.<\/p>\n<p>The next postmaster general must continue modernizing and investing in USPS&#8217; infrastructure while maintaining quality universal service funded by postage, not taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n<p>They must value and empower the 640,000 Postal Service employees, 73,000 of whom are veterans, who serve the American people.<\/p>\n<p>They must work in good faith with NALC, our sister unions and other stakeholders to get necessary retirement fund investment and accounting policy changes done in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the next postmaster general must fundamentally believe in the agency as a public service and be committed to guaranteeing the universal service Americans rely on.<\/p>\n<p>NALC urges the board to seek out a candidate who meets these criteria. The future of the Postal Service is on the line, and choosing someone with innovative ideas and appreciation for our Constitutionally mandated service is essential.<\/p>\n<p>NALC stands ready to work with whoever the board selects as the next postmaster general. We will fight like hell to ensure our members&#8217; perspectives and experiences are considered when the next postmaster general makes decisions that affect letter carriers&#8217; working lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NALC1aa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-29065 size-thumbnail\" 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 President Brian L. Renfroe issued the following statement regarding Postmaster General Louis DeJoy&#8217;s exit from the Postal Service:\u00a0 3\/24\/25 &#8211; Today was Postmaster General Louis DeJoy&#8217;s last day at the Postal Service. During his tenure, NALC worked in good faith with DeJoy on behalf of our 295,000 active and retired members. The USPS Board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37636","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\/37636","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=37636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37637,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37636\/revisions\/37637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}