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John Hegarty, National President of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, appeared before the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, in May to share his thoughts about the challenges facing the U.S.Postal Service since the implementation of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. J. Hegarty said that the Postal Service is pursuing a “fool’s gold situation” by “making plans to replace long-term career employees dedicated to the mission of the Postal Service with low-paid, no benefit, non-career, and often transient workers.” He then mentioned the Mail Network Protection Act, “..that we are fortunate to have”. J. Hegarty also mentioned the concerns linked to the outsourcing of services as well as the upcoming report on the network realignment. Regarding the latter he said that “ If the Postal Service would share its draft plans with us ahead of time, we could work to minimize the dislocation and inconvenience to our members, as is required by our collective bargaining agreement, and also minimize the service disruptions that may occur to your constituents..”.



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