While members of the Senate who are leading the charge to reform the U.S. Postal Service last week began debate on a retooled draft of what they call “a reasonable and bipartisan postal reform bill,” that legislation still falls short in the eyes of postal unions.
Postal unions are urging members to use the current Senate recess to lobby their senators to reject a bipartisan postal reform bill if the legislation's sponsors fail to remove measures that unions say would prove disastrous for USPS.
The House on March 29 passed the budget proposal introduced last month by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
FEND interviews Senior Executives Association Carol A. Bonosaro about pending reform legislation aimed at improving the Senior Executive Service.
The Air Force on March 23 said it would open a third round of buyouts and early outs to reduce civilian staffing levels.
More than 100 House members signed a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta asking him to abandon the plan to reduce the Defense Department’s civilian workforce to fiscal 2010 levels.
House Republicans sounded a familiar note last week when they released details of a fiscal 2013 budget which, among other things, proposes to freeze federal civilian pay for another three years, cut the federal workforce, and trim back federal employee benefits.
A member of Congress is asking the Postal Regulatory Commission to release a study that projects the impact that proposed mail service cuts and downsizing efforts would have on the revenues of the U.S. Postal Service.
One federal employee union has created a website it says will “set the record straight” when lawmakers or political candidates take aim at the federal workforce.
The Office of Personnel Management on March 1 sent out a call to agencies, asking them to provide data on their use of student loan repayment programs during 2011.