USPS broke law in allowing workers to boost Clinton campaign, watchdog says

Fox News ^ | 7/20/17 | Brooke Singman

[Impala64ssa]

The United States Postal Service violated federal law by letting employees do union-funded work for Hillary Clinton's campaign and other Democratic candidates while on leave from the agency, according to an Office of Special Counsel report obtained by Fox News.

The OSC determined the USPS "engaged in systemic violations" of the Hatch Act, a federal law that limits certain political activities of federal employees. While employees are allowed to do some political work on leave, the report said the Postal Service showed a "bias" favoring the union's 2016 campaign operation.

The investigation was launched months ago after Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., brought constituent complaints to the OSC in October. The constituent, identified as a USPS employee, was concerned the Postal Service “incurred unnecessary overtime costs” and “improperly coordinated” with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) when it released members for several weeks of “union official” leave without pay to participate in campaign work.

“The Labor 2016 program sought to ‘elect Hillary Clinton and pro-worker candidates across the country,’” the report said, citing campaign work like door-to-door canvassing, phone banks and other get-out-the-vote efforts.

[Impala64ssa]

In the USPS paying union dues is optional. I have always opted out for this reason. Like most other unions the APWU & NALC PAC's consistently endorse the leftists no matter what. The main reason the unions are so concerned with increasing consolidation and automation and reductions in the workforce through attrition and early retirement incentives is the reduction in the number of dues paying members.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Hey Mueller, here, you have something to really investigate

Go for it.

What, it’s not in your charter? So what? That doesn’t mean **** to you anyway.

Put your Clintonians to work and make them actually earn their pay for a change

[JPJones]

Sad news to hear.

If there’s one set of fedgov workers that actually DO something, it’s PO workers.

[ExSES]

Sadly... similar activities took place in ALL federal departments! Even FDR refused to allow federal unionization (for obvious reasons)! Having long ago been a low-level federal union officer, I became aware of the reasons that FDR had opposed federal employee unionization. Later, as a manager..., I found that the "System" made it impossible to hold federal employees from "Shop Steward" on up responsible for ANY ACCOUNTABILITY! This was 40+ years ago... I can assure you that the situation is far worse today!

Unions have a legitimate function in our economy but NOT in governmental agencies where they merely OWN politicians who reward them at the huge expense of the populace at large!

[Colo9250]

So the female Democrat Postmaster General will be removed When?

I’m sure our A.G. will jump right on this

[Ted73]

The Postal Service will no longer permit leave without pay for union political activities, after it recommended a "hands off" approach to the service's union political activities .

This is an excerpt from this article:

https://federalnewsradio.com

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Hillary and her team pulled out all the stops. Amazing, yet it wasn’t enough. Thank God.

[ComputerGuy]

I’m sure we’ll hear about the firings any day now...

[murron]

Why don’t these things get exposed BEFORE the election and not 8 months later.