{"id":7246,"date":"2014-03-24T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7246"},"modified":"2014-03-24T08:28:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T13:28:49","slug":"nalc-sends-letter-to-house-subcommittee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/03\/24\/nalc-sends-letter-to-house-subcommittee\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC sends letter to House subcommittee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NALC President Fredric Rolando has sent a letter to the leaders of the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Census, registering the union\u2019s concerns about the subcommittee\u2019s March 13 hearing on USPS finances. \u201cThis hearing was yet another example of how anti-USPS and anti-worker forces in Congress are trying to manufacture a financial crisis to justify massive job and service cuts and to attack our benefits and collective-bargaining rights,\u201d Rolando said later.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-b-NALC-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7225\" alt=\"1-b-NALC-small\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-b-NALC-small.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuided by Congressman Darrell Issa\u2019s (R-CA) postal bill, H.R. 2748, many of those forces at the hearing tried to paint an incomplete and misleading picture of the Postal Service\u2019s finances. My letter states for the record the NALC\u2019s respectful and fundamental disagreement with their message.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nalc.org\/downloads\/farenthold.lynch.fvr.032014.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the letter<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NALC President Fredric Rolando has sent a letter to the leaders of the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Census, registering the union\u2019s concerns about the subcommittee\u2019s March 13 hearing on USPS finances. \u201cThis hearing was yet another example of how anti-USPS and anti-worker forces in Congress are trying to manufacture a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246","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=7246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7247,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions\/7247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}