{"id":7624,"date":"2014-05-22T07:33:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T12:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7624"},"modified":"2014-05-22T07:33:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T12:33:44","slug":"apwu-committee-passes-controversial-issa-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/05\/22\/apwu-committee-passes-controversial-issa-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: Committee Passes Controversial Issa Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 21, 2014\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The\u00a0House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members passed\u00a0the latest postal bill offered by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), which would end \u201cdoor delivery\u201d for 15 million postal customers. The vote, which passed along party lines 18-13,\u00a0occurred\u00a0less than 48 hours after it was introduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no justification for the dramatic cuts in service proposed in this legislation,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. \u201cThe solution to the manufactured USPS financial crisis is for Congress to eliminate the unreasonable financial mandate it imposed on the Postal Service in 2006 and which sent the agency into a tailspin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrivatizers in Congress are using the crisis they created to justify dismantling a national treasure,\u201d Dimondstein said. \u00a0\u201cThey must be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposal to end door delivery is just the latest in a series of measures Rep. Issa has submitted that would severely curtail service. His other proposals have would eliminate Saturday delivery, shutter post offices, contract out retail services, and close mail processing plants, the union president noted. Consideration of a more sweeping Issa bill just two weeks ago was postponed after he failed to win support for it in the committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRep. Issa has not been able to garner support for his extreme and anti-worker postal bill, H.R. 2748 or other postal bills,&#8221; said APWU Legislative and Political Director John Marcotte. \u201cNow, Issa is at it again!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7249\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\" alt=\"1aa-APWU-small\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s bill represents a new strategy,\u201d Dimondstein said. \u201cIssa has now decided to eat the USPS one bite at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Postal unions are united in opposition to the bill. \u201cWe stand in solidarity against any efforts to privatize the Postal Service, diminish service to our customers, or weaken workers\u2019 rights,\u201d Dimondstein said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/web-news-article\/committee-passes-controversial-issa-bill#sthash.tgoeueQZ.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 21, 2014\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The\u00a0House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members passed\u00a0the latest postal bill offered by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), which would end \u201cdoor delivery\u201d for 15 million postal customers. The vote, which passed along party lines 18-13,\u00a0occurred\u00a0less than 48 hours after it was introduced. \u201cThere is no justification for the dramatic cuts in service proposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624","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=7624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7625,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions\/7625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}