{"id":5793,"date":"2013-02-07T23:20:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2013-02-07T23:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:20:50","slug":"nalc-president-rolando-responds-to-donahoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2013\/02\/07\/nalc-president-rolando-responds-to-donahoe\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC President Rolando responds to Donahoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NALC-News1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5794\" title=\"NALC News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NALC-News1-300x168.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NALC-News1-300x168.gif 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NALC-News1.gif 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NALC President Rolando responds to Donahoe<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PMG to Congress: Out of the way, I&#8217;m ending Saturday delivery<\/li>\n<li>NALC to PMG: Not without a fight!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feb. 7, 2013 &#8212; Postmaster General Pat Donahoe\u2019s unilateral and brazen plan to end Saturday mail delivery in August led many reporters at a press conference yesterday to question its legality, given Congress\u2019 30-year legislated policy to mandate six-day delivery. Donahoe was vague and evasive in responding. The PMG also made a number of claims about employee support for his plan. National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando issued the following statement in response:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The PMG didn\u2019t equivocate when he talked to me before unleashing a sneak attack on the nation\u2019s postal customers, letter carriers and mailers who rely on Saturday delivery. He told me he plans to go ahead with his service- and job-killing plan, even if Congress extends next month the continuing resolution that mandates Saturday delivery. He\u2019s essentially telling Congress to \u201cDrop dead!\u201d He is presuming the right to override the will of America\u2019s elected representatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Congress cannot let him get away with this arrogant power grab\u2014not only because it will drive more business away and do irreparable harm to the Postal Service, but also because it will set the stage for a move to four-day and three-day delivery in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Donahoe told reporters that he talked to me before yesterday\u2019s announcement and suggested that letter carriers and other postal employees are \u201cfully supportive\u201d of his plan. This is completely false. Let me respond to both points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He did talk to me 18 hours before going public, but I made it absolutely clear that letter carriers totally oppose this destructive plan. I told him directly that we consider this an attack on letter carriers, the Postal Service\u2019s customers and the American public, not to mention an affront to Congress. I informed him that I would direct our lawyers to take the most aggressive action possible to thwart his reckless plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Donahoe\u2019s claim that postal employees support his self-destructive downsizing plan is plainly untrue\u2014every union has announced its opposition. If he is truly willing to be guided by the views of the nation\u2019s letter carriers, NALC would gladly agree to jointly commission a carrier poll on this matter, so long as the PMG is willing to be bound by the results. Otherwise, he should not arrogantly presume to speak for America\u2019s letter carriers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">More than 90 percent of letter carriers voluntarily belong to the NALC; we are confident that they know what\u2019s best for the Postal Service and its customers. They know what Donahoe seems not to understand: Slowing mail service and slashing service is not a winning business strategy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Letter carriers, the core workforce of the United States Postal Service, have lost confidence in Postmaster General Donahoe. It is time for him to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NALC President Rolando responds to Donahoe PMG to Congress: Out of the way, I&#8217;m ending Saturday delivery NALC to PMG: Not without a fight! Feb. 7, 2013 &#8212; Postmaster General Pat Donahoe\u2019s unilateral and brazen plan to end Saturday mail delivery in August led many reporters at a press conference yesterday to question its legality, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","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=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5796,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/5796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}