COLCPE
What is COLCPE
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(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.