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Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina has introduced legislation S. 1143 that specifically does not allow any federal agency to “deduct any amount from the pay of an employee for the dues of a labor organization”. This legislation includes all of the Federal Workforce, specifically including Postal Workers. It needs to be mentioned that all federal union members are in a union because they choose to be and are doing so on a voluntary basis.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the U.S. Postal Service at 3200 Summit Blvd. in West Palm Beach for eight alleged safety violations following a November 2010 inspection. Proposed penalties total $164,200.

Proposed changes to the Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA) “will negatively affect public servants and their families,” APWU Human Relations Director Sue Carney said in testimony [PDF] before the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. The Department of Labor’s proposed Federal Injured Employees Re-employment Act (FIERA), if adopted as written, would strip injured workers of benefits.

APWU members are encouraged to contact their members of Congress and urge them to support H.R. 1351, an important measure that would restore financial stability to the Postal Service.

This bill, the “USPS Pension Obligation Recalculation and Restoration Act of 2011,” would correct the overfunding of the Postal Service’s pension accounts, and would allow the cash-strapped agency to use any surplus to meet its retiree health benefits pre-funding obligation.