Trump Proposes Cutting Postal Employees' Pay, Benefits in $100B Savings Package..

[ProudMNDemocrat]

President Trump has once again proposed a slew of changes to the operations of the U.S. Postal Service and its employees’ benefits, with the White House estimating the plan would save $98 billion over the next decade.

In addition to a renewed push for offering postal employees lower pay and benefits, Trump pushed changes proposed by the task force he created last year. Those include raising prices for mail and packages not deemed “essential,” reducing delivery frequency, outsourcing some mail processing and licensing access to individuals’ mailboxes.

Additional savings would result from governmentwide efforts to require federal employees to contribute more toward their pensions and health insurance benefits. Trump also suggested making specific changes to USPS employee compensation to align it more closely align with the rest of the federal workforce. His task force previously proposed eliminating pay and benefit issues from collective bargaining negotiations, as is the case for all non-postal unions representing federal employees.

[link:https://m.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2019/03/trump-proposes-cutting-postal-employees-pay-benefits-100b-savings-package/155643/?fbclid=IwAR15244x7k_Y6NFc9IsM1LIj0qO6FZy6fBLXFXBr9_XYHbN2kQ8nUNrBWbQ|






If you are a Postal worker for the USPS, there is a proposal to slash $100 Billion over 10 years, privatize some of your work, reduce your pay and benefits, and go after your Union. Are you going to stand for that? I suggest contacting your Senator AND Representative in the House and demand they fight this.

[Shell_Seas]

1. Gotta pay for rich people's tax cuts somehow...

[ooky]

13. Exactly. This smaller piece of legislative theft from postal employees will cover roughly

two thirds of one year of the 10 years of deficit spending required for the Republican billionaires' harvest. Then their shills will only need to steal enough money for the other nine and one third years of deficit spending they still need to offset with other smaller legislative theft bills, or make another run at trying to steal it all at once by cutting 25% from Medicaid to cover it (their original plan to steal the harvest money that failed in the Senate).

[Heartstrings]

2. Would be interested to know if this impacts already retired postal workers collecting pensions....

My brother, an ardent trump humper, would fall under this category.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. I pity your brother....

For his ardent support of Trump. When you tell him this that Trump wants to slash his benefits, ask him if he is okay with that?

[Heartstrings]

10. I have absolutely no pity for him, haven't spoken to him in over a year.

My only sibling. His support of Fox News, trump, anti-universal healthcare, and anti-union views disgust me. Both our parents were teachers and because of unions were able to retire quite comfortably.
I think he admires trump from the "I'd bang that porn star" mentality.
Not sure how we came from the same parents, although it's quite obvious who my father was....him? Not so much!
I just ignore his drunk calls at 11:00pm, can't argue or even state a case with a drunk trump supporter...

[50 Shades Of Blue]

7. Ditto - my spouse is a retired postal employee (who loathes Trump as much as I do).

[Delmette2.0]

18. I have a friend who just retires from USPS in December.

She is going to be PISSED as a former employee and Union Rep. People have no idea how much difficult labor intensive work goes on behind the counter of their Post Office.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

19. No they don't! My spouse was a mailhandler and had so much to keep track of

in addition to the physical labor. Postal employees deserve good pay and benefits!

[Delmette2.0]

21. +1

[Still In Wisconsin]

4. Sounds exactly like the Scott Walker playbook...

probably came from the same place, too. Nothing Walker ever did was original, I suspect it's the same for Trump.

[BlueJac]

5. tRump strikes again!

2020 better end this hellish nightmare America is living in!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. I support my Local Post Office....

With all my shipping of Clients custom made Costume orders all over the country. I will only use UPS if what I am shipping is way too big.

[pamdb]

8. Post office

Has he never heard the phrase, "going postal"?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. Apparently not.......

[Traildogbob]

17. Postal?

Just wait until to excessively armed knuckle dragging, mouth breathing militia realize the tyrannical government they hate so much, that is fucking them, is the republicunts. Those trillions of bullets Steve King is so happy about will be flying in his direction. MAGA. He will be wishing he had cantaloupe calves to outrun the armed bubbas.

[lindysalsagal]

11. ...because no one will create more jobs than him.....

working in hotels, cleaning bathtubs, serving food and drinks...

Serious, responsible work like delivering mail, a legal process, those people don't need to be able to pay the rent or feed their kids.....

[Caliman73]

12. So does that mean Spam mail will become more expensive to send?

Somehow with this slimy administration, I doubt it. "Non essential" mail will likely be deemed to be pension checks and anything mailed out by the DNC, DCCC, Move-On, or other organizations that support Democrats.

[lpbk2713]

14. Postal workers will be paying for Trump's stupid ass wall.

I hope people are taking notice.

[lunatica]

15. Just don't send no fucking mail to Mexico!

Then what are all those Brown people gonna do when they can’t send money there?!

[jmowreader]

23. They're going to find a friendly gringo with a dependable car...

...and hire him to drive from San Diego to Baja California with a spare tire full of money for people’s relatives.

[lunatica]

24. Trump knows how to create jobs for gringos!

Ergo the Mexicans will pay for the wall!

[DeminPennswoods]

16. This is DOA in the House,

probably the Senate, too.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

20. I thought the Post Office budget was self-supporting and isolated from the rest of the fed budget.

[jmowreader]

22. Packages not deemed essential? How do they know?

When I put things in the mail, they are essential to me. Fuck this asshole. If he would endeavor to become a better president, people might stop sending him boxes full of dog shit, penis-shaped gummy bears and dead rats.