>>9167477 (You) resignations in the news

Look at all the positions this swamp dweller has had over 40 years. Something big coming at USPS, Nancy shouldn’t have outed them in the last CARES act deal

Ronald A. Stroman

Deputy Postmaster General and Chief Government Relations Officer

Deputy Postmaster General and Chief Government Relations Officer Ronald A. Stroman

Ronald A. Stroman was named the 20th Deputy Postmaster General (DPMG) in March 2011.

=•As the second-highest ranking postal executive, he serves on the Postal Service Board of Governors and on Postmaster General Megan Brennan’s Executive Leadership Team==

Reporting to Stroman are the functions of Government Relations and Public Policy, International Postal Affairs, Sustainability, and the Judicial Officer Department.

Stroman facilitates relationships with the Congress, and with federal, state, and local agencies as the Postal Service pursues its core business strategies. He also has the lead role in working with the Universal Postal Union, and the Department of State on international postal policy

Stroman has more than 30 years of professional experience in government, legislative affairs and leadership before becoming DPMG.

From 1978 to 1984, he was an attorney with the Department of Housing and Urban Development

He then moved into a position as counsel on the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

He also worked for the Committee on Government Operations and became a minority staff director and counsel for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

In 1997, Stroman took a director’s position with the U.S. Department of Transportation

In 2001, he joined the General Accounting Office as managing director for the Office of Opportunity and Inclusiveness

He returned to the House in 2009, where he served as staff director, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, before joining the Postal Service

Stroman earned his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University Law Center.

Latest update: July 2017

https://about.usps.com/who/leadership/officers/dpmg.htm

>>9167477 (You) resignations in the news

Vote-by-mail under ‘existential threat’ as top US Postal Service official forced out: report

By Common DreamsMay 13, 2020

Deputy Postmaster General Ronald Stroman has reportedly been forced out of his position, throwing the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service into further chaos as the agency faces a potentially catastrophic financial crisis and efforts by Trump administration officials to impose draconian changes on the nation’s most popular government institution.

The American Prospect‘s David Dayen reported Tuesday that Stroman resigned from his post earlier this week. “Sources indicate that Stroman was forced out,” Dayen tweeted.

Reports of Stroman’s ouster came less than a week after the USPS Board of Governors announced its selection of Louis DeJoy—a leading donor to the Republican Party and President Donald Trump—to serve as postmaster general as the agency continues to navigate the Covid-19 crisis, which has resulted in a precipitous decline in mail volume. Current USPS chief Megan Brennan, who is retiring effective June 15, has warned Congress that the agency could face financial ruin by the end of September without a rapid infusion of emergency funds.

DeJoy will choose the next deputy postmaster general.

Days before the USPS Board of Governors publicly announced its decision to appoint DeJoy, news broke that David Williams, the vice chair of the board, resigned effective April 30. Dayen, who has been reporting on the Postal Service for years, wrote last week that Williams’ resignation is “distressing” because “nobody is more knowledgeable about the inner workings of the Postal Service than David Williams.”

“He was the longtime Inspector General who wrote the famous (to me, anyway) white paper in 2014 arguing for the return of postal banking,” Dayen wrote. “Worst of all, my sources indicate that this was a resignation in protest.”

Williams was reportedly upset at the Trump Treasury Department’s efforts to use a congressionally approved $10 billion loan to force significant changes to USPS operations. According to the Washington Post, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin “could use the loan as leverage to give the administration influence over how much the agency charges for delivering packages and how it manages its finances.”

“In recent days, the Postal Service’s board has appeared open to some of the Trump administration’s terms,” the Post reported last week.

The 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union accused the Trump administration of exploiting the coronavirus crisis to privatize the agency.

Recent behind-the-scenes machinations at the Postal Service could have immense real-world consequences as the U.S. barrels toward the November elections without a nationwide, universal system in place for mail-in voting, which advocates say is necessary to safely conduct elections amid the coronavirus pandemic.

With Stroman and Williams gone, the USPS Board of Governors, which sets policy for the agency, is now almost completely controlled by Trump appointees. Stroman’s departure leaves the board with five members, short of the quorum required to conduct business.

“Stroman was specifically key on elections and vote by mail—this is not a good sign,” tweeted ProPublica‘s Jessica Huseman in response to reports of Stroman’s resignation.

Stephen Wolf of Daily Kos Elections echoed Huseman’s warning, calling turmoil at the Postal Service “an existential threat to voting safely by mail in November.”

“Trump is intent on installing his partisan lackeys in control of the Postal Service,” said Wolf, “while congressional Republicans try to force it into insolvency so they can privatize it.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/vote-by-mail-under-existential-threat-as-top-us-postal-service-official-forced-out-report/

>>9167477 (You) resignations in the news

Turnover in the top ranks comes as House Democrats renew push to give cash-strapped Postal Service financial relief

Eric KatzMay 13, 2020 03:54 PM ET

More Stroman news, dig on David Williams out also

The No. 2 official at the U.S. Postal Service will resign at the end of the month, the agency has announced, leaving it without a governing quorum less than a year after finally regaining one.

The resignation of Deputy Postmaster General Ronald Stroman, which USPS announced in a financial filing on Tuesday but will take effect June 1, comes days after the agency’s board of governors named Louis DeJoy as the next postmaster general. DeJoy will be the first outsider to lead the Postal Service in nearly 20 years and his selection was met with some criticism from stakeholders who raised concerns about his political connections to President Trump and the Republican party. Stroman has served in his position since 2011 and has more than 40 years of federal government experience.

Stroman's resignation also follows the recent departure of David Williams from the postal board, who stepped down over the Trump administration’s heavy-handed role in the agency’s business decisions. Williams was seen by many stakeholders as a valuable member of the board due to his experience as a former inspector general for USPS and several other agencies.

Williams had expressed concerns about Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin placing conditions on USPS before Treasury would release a $10 billion loan authorized by Congress to help the agency respond to the fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic. House Democrats this week unveiled legislation that would repeal Treasury’s authority to place such conditions, instead making the loan available as soon as the postal board requested it. The bill, part of a larger $3 trillion package to stimulate the economy during the ongoing pandemic, would also provide a $25 billion cash injection to the Postal Service to help it offset revenue lost during the economic downturn.

House Democrats previously pushed for such a provision, but the White House ultimately stripped the funding from a previous stimulus package during its negotiations with the Senate in favor of the loan with conditions. The Democratic proposal, to which Trump has already voiced his opposition, falls far short of the $75 billion in relief sought by postal management. The USPS board last month approved a request for a $25 billion appropriation, $25 billion in unrestricted borrowing authority and an additional $25 billion for “shovel-ready” projects to modernize the agency.

A spokesman for the Postal Service said agency officials are still reviewing the legislation.

With Stroman’s departure, the Postal Service now only has five members on its 11-slot board, meaning it does not have a governing quorum. Four members are Trump appointed, Senate-confirmed governors and the fifth is outgoing Postmaster General Megan Brennan. USPS was without a quorum on its board from 2014 through July 2019. Just like it did in 2014, the board has created a “temporary emergency committee” that will carry out its tasks to make business decisions and set the long-term vision for the agency. That committee can vote to appoint a new deputy postmaster general, which would then restore the quorum.

While DeJoy, the incoming postmaster general, has extensive experience in private sector shipping and logistics, his appointment was seen by postal worker unions and large-scale mailers as an attempt by the Trump administration to install a like-minded leader at the Postal Service. Trump has long complained the agency undercharges for its services and said rate increases would solve its longstanding financial problems.

https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/05/usps-board-again-loses-its-quorum-amid-further-leadership-turmoil/165372/

Your Boss Is Watching You: Work-From-Home Boom Leads To More Surveillance

After two weeks of working from her Brooklyn apartment, a 25-year-old e-commerce worker received a staffwide email from her company: Employees were to install software called Hubstaff immediately on their personal computers so it could track their mouse movements and keyboard strokes, and record the webpages they visited.

They also had to download an app called TSheets to their phones to keep tabs on their whereabouts during work hours.

“There are five of us. And we always came to work. We always came on time. There was no reason to start location-tracking us,” the woman told NPR. She spoke on the condition of anonymity, fearing she could lose her job.

Company emails that she provided to NPR show her employer believed the tracking software would improve the team’s productivity and efficiency while everyone was working from home.

Such rationales are increasingly ringing throughout workplaces nationwide.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced about a third of U.S. workers to do their jobs from home. In turn, companies are ramping up the use of software to monitor what their employees do all day.

Privacy advocates and some workers said they worry that the intensified tracking brought upon by the coronavirus will normalize workplace surveillance and that this type of digital supervision will persist when workers return to offices. – READ MORE

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https://truepundit.com/your-boss-is-watching-you-work-from-home-boom-leads-to-more-surveillance/

$138 Million Government Contract Will Fund Production Of 500 Million Pre-Filled COVID-19 Vaccine “Injection Devices”

Just when you thought that things couldn’t get any stranger, two U.S. government agencies have taken things to an entirely new level. The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have just put out a press release that is absolutely jaw dropping, but so far hardly anyone is talking about it. According to the press release, a 138 million dollar contract has been awarded to ApiJect Systems America for two projects known as “Project Jumpstart” and “RAPID USA”. Apparently the goal of these projects is to have vast numbers of “injection devices” ready to go once a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available. The following comes directly from the official website of the Department of Defense…

“Today the Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announce a $138 million contract with ApiJect Systems America for “Project Jumpstart” and “RAPID USA,” which together will dramatically expand U.S. production capability for domestically manufactured, medical-grade injection devices starting by October 2020.

Spearheaded by the DOD’s Joint Acquisition Task Force (JATF), in coordination with the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the contract will support “Jumpstart” to create a U.S.-based, high-speed supply chain for prefilled syringes beginning later this year by using well-established Blow-Fill-Seal (BFS) aseptic plastics manufacturing technology, suitable for combatting COVID-19 when a safe and proven vaccine becomes available.

Today, there are about 328 million people living in the United States. But the press release states that the plan is to produce “over 500 million prefilled syringes” in 2021… – READ MORE

https://truepundit.com/138-million-government-contract-will-fund-production-of-500-million-pre-filled-covid-19-vaccine-injection-devices/

Pennsylvania health official moved mother from nursing home as deaths skyrocketed

That picture is an offense to all that is holy. Seriously is this person a man, yikes it’s shocking really

The health official responsible for overseeing nursing homes in Pennsylvania — where nearly 70 percent of the state’s coronavirus-related deaths have occurred — moved her elderly mother out of one of the facilities as deaths skyrocketed, a report said.

Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine said Tuesday that her 95-year-old mother requested to be moved out of a personal care home, a local ABC affiliate reported.

“My mother requested, and my sister and I as her children complied to move her to another location during the Covid-19 outbreak,” Levine said, according to ABC27.

“My mother is 95 years old. She is very intelligent and more than competent to make her own decisions,” she added.

After criticism from some state lawmakers for the move, Levine argued she’s working to ensure the health and safety of all state residents, according to the report. – READ MORE

https://truepundit.com/pennsylvania-health-official-moved-mother-from-nursing-home-as-deaths-skyrocketed/