{"id":6353,"date":"2013-07-25T07:51:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T12:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2013-07-25T07:51:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T12:51:02","slug":"apwu-house-panel-approves-issa-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2013\/07\/25\/apwu-house-panel-approves-issa-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: House Panel Approves Issa Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform approved a postal bill introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) on July 24, by a vote of 22 to 17. The vote was along party lines, with all Republicans voting in favor of the measure and all Democrats voting against it. All amendments submitted by Democrats were defeated by the same margin. Voting concluded at approximately 8:15 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/4-APWU-Small2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6354\" alt=\"4-APWU-Small\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/4-APWU-Small2.gif\" width=\"322\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is enacted, this bill will lead to the demise of the Postal Service,\u201d said APWU President Cliff Guffey. \u201cI call upon all APWU members to contact their U.S. representatives and urge them to vote \u2018no\u2019 when the bill is brought before the full House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill (H.R. 2748) would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prohibit postal unions and management from negotiating protection against layoffs;<\/li>\n<li>Increase health insurance costs for employees;<\/li>\n<li>Limit collective workers\u2019 bargaining rights;<\/li>\n<li>Close post offices, stations and branches;<\/li>\n<li>Consolidate plants, and<\/li>\n<li>Privatize operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe changes proposed by H.R. 2748 would severely weaken the Postal Service,\u201d said Legislative and Political Director Gary Kloepfer. \u201cWe must defeat it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To contact your representative by phone, call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform approved a postal bill introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) on July 24, by a vote of 22 to 17. The vote was along party lines, with all Republicans voting in favor of the measure and all Democrats voting against it. All amendments submitted by Democrats were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","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=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6356,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}