{"id":8028,"date":"2014-07-14T14:08:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T19:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8028"},"modified":"2014-07-14T14:08:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T19:08:57","slug":"nalc-fact-checking-the-pmg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/07\/14\/nalc-fact-checking-the-pmg\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC: Fact-checking the PMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NALC &#8211; July 14, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact-checking the PMG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A so-called \u201cwhite paper\u201d from L\u2019Enfant Plaza, sent to every postal facility, seeks to bamboozle postal employees into supporting the postmaster general\u2019s disastrous \u201crecovery plan\u201d as well as legislation that would empower Postmaster General Pat Donahoe to execute it. The document is chock-full of red herrings, straw-man arguments, misleading statements and glaring omissions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nalc.org\/depart\/legpol\/pdf\/2014\/07-2014_white-paper-fact-check.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to read our fact-checking fact sheet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3-NALC-News-Small2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6519\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3-NALC-News-Small2.gif\" alt=\"3-NALC News Small\" width=\"254\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NALC &#8211; July 14, 2014 Fact-checking the PMG A so-called \u201cwhite paper\u201d from L\u2019Enfant Plaza, sent to every postal facility, seeks to bamboozle postal employees into supporting the postmaster general\u2019s disastrous \u201crecovery plan\u201d as well as legislation that would empower Postmaster General Pat Donahoe to execute it. The document is chock-full of red herrings, straw-man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8028","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\/8028","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=8028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8029,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions\/8029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}