Congress Holds Unprecedented Hearing into USPS-Union Agreement

Today, Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, held a hearing on the tentative collective bargaining agreement reached last month between the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and the United States Postal Service. The move pushes Congress into uncharted territory.

Chairman Issa claims that the collective bargaining agreement is too generous to postal workers and will hurt the finances of the USPS, which lost $8.5 billion in fiscal year 2010.

“I have never heard of a congressional hearing being called into a collective bargaining agreement,” said APWU President Cliff Guffey.