Dear APWU Member,
Two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the USPS Fairness Act with a huge bipartisan majority. Now it's time for you to help build support in the Senate.
House members voted with a two-thirds majority to pass the Act. It was a big win and it happened because APWU members like you made thousands of calls and wrote letters to Congress members, as well as meeting with them.
Now the fight passes to the Senate. We need to keep that pressure up. Will you to step up and help preserve and improve the Postal Service? Join the country-wide phone action on Feb 25.
In 2006, Congress saddled the US Postal Service with an extraordinary burden of funding retirees’ health care 75 years into the future. That burden is strangling our public Postal Service and risking its full or partial sale to private corporations.
Just last week, when the White House released its budget, it included the recommendations of the 2018 White House Task Force on the Postal Service. They include service cuts, lower pay for postal workers, and accelerated outsourcing and privatization of postal work.
The USPS Fairness Act (S. 2965) would help put the Postal Service back onto a sustainable path for our communities by repealing that mandate and reducing the threat to our jobs.
This bill already has bipartisan support. We can get this passed if we all take action together. Sign up now and be a part of our online action day on Feb 25.
In union solidarity,
President Mark Dimondstein
1300 L Street NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx | www.apwu.org
