{"id":3885,"date":"2012-03-12T07:11:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2012-03-12T07:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:11:33","slug":"congresswoman-hochul-announces-legislation-to-cap-executive-pay-and-limit-bonuses-at-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/03\/12\/congresswoman-hochul-announces-legislation-to-cap-executive-pay-and-limit-bonuses-at-usps\/","title":{"rendered":"Congresswoman Hochul Announces Legislation To Cap Executive Pay And Limit Bonuses At USPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Letter to Chairman of the USPS Board of Governors, Hochul Calls for Cap On Salaries & Bonuses for Postmaster General and Executives, While Local Processing Facility Remains In Jeopardy<\/em><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Kathy Hochul today announced plans to introduce legislation limiting compensation for executive officers of the United States Postal Service to the same level of pay as the President\u2019s Cabinet.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican families all over this country are struggling to get by, the William Street Processing Center in Downtown Buffalo is in danger of shutting down, and 700 postal employees in Western New York are at risk of losing their jobs, but for some reason we are still providing the Postmaster General and other executive officers at the U.S. Postal Service with bonuses and salaries greater than that provided to the Secretary of Defense\u201d said Congresswoman Hochul. \u201cIn these tough economic times, Western New Yorkers are making necessary sacrifices and cutting back, and they expect their public servants to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2006, a law was enacted providing senior officers of the USPS with salaries up to 120% of the Vice President\u2019s salary, as well as authorizing bonuses for these postal executives if approved by the Postal Service Board of Governors.<\/p>\n

Congresswoman Hochul\u2019s legislation would reinstate the longstanding policy of paying the Postmaster General and other USPS executives at the same level of pay as the President\u2019s Cabinet ($199,700 in FY2012). Additionally, this bill would prohibit the issuance of bonuses to USPS executive officers in years that the Postal Service closes any retail or processing facility, such as the William Street Area Mail Processing Facility in Buffalo.<\/p>\n

Hochul added, \u201cThe Postal Service cannot make the argument that they need to cuts costs and let go hard-working postal workers when their own management team continues to rake in bonuses and make more than the President\u2019s Cabinet. The jobs of over 700 Western New Yorkers and thousands of Americans across this country are worth more than bonuses for a handful of individuals at the United States Postal Service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congresswoman Hochul has already written Thurgood Marshall, Jr., Chairman of the United States Postal Service Board of Governors, urging him to limit the compensation for the Postmaster General and other members of the USPS executive management team, while processing facilities across the nation are in danger of shutting down. A copy of the letter sent to Chairman Marshall can be found here<\/a>\u00a0(PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Letter to Chairman of the USPS Board of Governors, Hochul Calls for Cap On Salaries & Bonuses for Postmaster General and Executives, While Local Processing Facility Remains In Jeopardy WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Kathy Hochul today announced plans to introduce legislation limiting compensation for executive officers of the United States Postal Service to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","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=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3888,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}