{"id":9854,"date":"2015-01-26T16:10:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9854"},"modified":"2015-01-26T16:10:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T21:10:44","slug":"apwu-with-a-golden-parachute-in-hand-donahoe-opposes-retirement-for-young-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/01\/26\/apwu-with-a-golden-parachute-in-hand-donahoe-opposes-retirement-for-young-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: With a \u2018Golden Parachute\u2019 in Hand, Donahoe Opposes Retirement for Young Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">APWU &#8211; 01\/26\/2015<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>When Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe retires at the end of the week, he\u2019ll get a retirement package of more than $4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad for a \u201ccivil servant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But in his controversial<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2015\/pr15_001.htm\" target=\"_blank\">farewell address<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>to reporters at the National Press Club on Jan. 6, Donahoe made clear that he doesn\u2019t think the union\u2019s newest members deserve any postal retirement at all.\u00a0<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>\u201cIn today\u2019s world, does it really make sense to offer the promise of a government pension to a 22-year-old who is just entering the workforce?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>And apparently Donahoe\u2019s views have nothing to do with the Postal Service\u2019s manufactured \u201cfinancial crisis.\u201d He opposes government pensions on principle and wants to impose his view to the entire federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would encourage Congress to view the Postal Service as a test bed or laboratory of change that might be applied to the rest of the federal government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to see the Congress encourage much more experimentation at the federal level,\u201d Donahoe added. \u201cThe Postal Service has the kind of management that would appreciate being at the front edge of change and would make good use of opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>APWU President Mark Dimondstein denounced Donahoe\u2019s parting shot at young workers. \u201cDonahoe\u2019s remarks are the height of hypocrisy,\u201d the union president said. \u201cEvery worker should be able to look forward to a stable, secure retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\"><em>According to a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/prc.gov\/Docs\/90\/90817\/2014-12-05%20-%2010-K.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">financial report<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>filed by USPS December, as of Sept. 30, 2014, Donahoe\u2019s defined-benefit pension plan totaled $4,080,932.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU &#8211; 01\/26\/2015\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0When Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe retires at the end of the week, he\u2019ll get a retirement package of more than $4 million. Not bad for a \u201ccivil servant.\u201d But in his controversial\u00a0farewell address\u00a0to reporters at the National Press Club on Jan. 6, Donahoe made clear that he doesn\u2019t think the union\u2019s newest members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9854","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\/9854","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=9854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9855,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854\/revisions\/9855"}],"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=9854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}