COLCPE
What is COLCPE ??
(courtesy of NALC Branch 3825 )
What the heck is
COLCPE?
COLCPE.....is not just another add-on to your
union dues, brothers and sisters.
It's the NALC's
Political action committee (specifically: NALC's Committee on Letter Carrier
Political Education).
What do they do?
Among other political duties, they lobby congress on issues of concern to
letter carriers.
What's changed,
why is contributing now so important?
Have you heard
about the presidential commission's Report on the U.S. Postal Service?
Are you aware of
their recommendation to cap our wages and roll back our benefits?
Did you note the
suggestion to open retirement benefits to collective bargaining;
thus eliminating any
income or benefit guarantees you might have when you retire?
Somebody has to
speak up.
The NALC is not
allowed to lobby congress directly, nor is it allowed to use its funds to lobby
indirectly.
The Postal Service
also is barred by law from lobbying, due its status as a federal agency.
In contrast, UPS
spent over $2 million per year in 1999 and 2000 lobbying congress. (source: www.opensecrets.org) .
Word has it that
they spent more than 10 times that last year;
specifically
for lobbying congress to create legislation making postal reforms go their way.
To date, COLCPE's
lobbying expenditures have been a small fraction of the expenditures of UPS.
Of course, UPS is
a huge company who can donate money at a whim,
where
COLCPE and the other postal lobbying groups have to rely on individual
donations to fund their campaigns.
UPS is lobbying
heavily to weaken the Postal Service and to gain any competitive ground it can.
COLCPE is your
voice in Washington.
COLCPE is doing
everything it can to protect your job and all the benefits we've fought so hard
for.
COLCPE needs these
funds to maintain that fight and to fight against the special interests like
UPS,
who'd
like to see the Postal Service crumble.
This is where you
come in. It's time to act, brothers and sisters.
Click here now to donate from your bank account.