2nd Quarter

2024

There are a lot of legislation issues that were support from our congressional representatives. We need

to get busy contacting our congressional representatives and ask them to support the Protect Our Letter Carriers Act (H.R. 7629). Attacks on letter carriers involve gun or another weapon. The Protect Our Letter Carriers Act (POLCA) would deter crime and keep letter carriers safe on the job. This bill would strengthen sentencing guidelines for these crimes, ensuring that they are treated in the same manner as assaults on federal law enforcement officers. The NALC supports the Protect Our Letter Carriers Act, (H.R. 7629).

The Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act (H.R.618/S. 131). This bill would expand care options for federal employees including letter carriers, who are injured on the job. The Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA) by amending the (FECA) it would allow NPs and PAs to prescribe or recommend treatment, certify the nature of an injury and probable extent of disability and provide prescribed treatment for injured federal workers. This bill would increase the number of eligible providers for workers ‘compensation cases, making it easier for injured federal workers to access the care they need.

All of the above legislation benefits letter carriers. We need to contact our congressional representatives and ask them to support the above legislation as a co-sponsor. Congratulation to Congressman Colin Allred for winning the Democrat nominee for Senator and Julie Johnson the Democratic candidate for the US House of Representative for District 32. The above candidates will need our support in order get a victory in November.

I would like to thank Congresswoman Felicia Crockett District 30 for inviting our brother Eugene Gates, Jr wife to the State of the Union address by President Joe Biden. Brother Gates die during heat of the summer of 2023. Congresswoman Crockett also authorized her aide Carmen Ayala to attend the Enough Is Enough rally related to the attacks on letter carries.

If anyone is interested in serving as a Letter Carrier Congressional Liaison (LCCL) for District 32 please contact Vice President Everett Wyllie at email ewyllienalc33@gmail.com.