USPS has notifed NALC of its intent to involuntarily reassign up to 107 Letter Carriers in the Sacramento Performance Clsuter According to the letter: This is to advise you of the intent of the Sacramento Perfonnance Cluster to utilize the provisions of Article 12.5.C.5 to involuntarily reassign up to 107 full-time carriers from the craft […]
Carriers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Illinois and Washington Honored for Bravery and Humanitarian Deeds A letter carrier from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania who broke into a neighbor’s home and rescued an unconscious 78-year-old man from a blazing fire was named today by the 300,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO) as its 2009 “National Hero of […]
WASHINGTON – The National Association of Letter Carriers union today mourned the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-MA, who had championed many causes critical to letter carriers and all working men and women throughout his career. The 300,000 members of our union, and indeed all postal employees, have lost a dedicated champion of workers’ […]
From the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) The Postal Service has negotiated agreements with the American Postal Workers Union and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union to offer cash incentives of up to $15,000 to employees in the APWU and NPMHU’s crafts to accept a Voluntary Early Retirement offer between now and November 30, […]
“The NALC issued a point-by-point rebuttal of a grossly inaccurate, partisan attack on the Postal Service and its 700,000 employees, perpetrated by by the House Republican Conference in an underhanded bid to derail health care reform. “This smear cannot go unanswered,” NALC President Fredric V. Rolando said. “This attack on America’s most-trusted agency is deliberately […]
The NALC has filed a national-level interpretive dispute with the Postal Service, charging it failed to provide mandatory retirement counseling prior to the June 19 irrevocable decision date for the latest Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) offer extended to letter carriers. “A lot of our members did not get the help they needed to make a […]
Press Release Letter Carriers’ union President Fredric V. Rolando urged Congress today to ensure that structural changes being made in U.S. Postal Service operations due to the nation’s current economic crisis do not cause more harm than good over the long term to its mission of delivering mail to the American people. Rolando, who assumed […]
Postmaster General Briefing July 14, 2009 USPS Headquarters On Tuesday, July 14, 2009, Louis Atkins, NAPS Executive Vice President, represented NAPS at a briefing with Postmaster General Jack Potter. Also in attendance were the leaders of all of the craft unions and the other two management associations. Postmaster General Potter briefed the attendees on the […]
APWU Web News Article #079-09, July 16, 2009 The presidents of the four major postal unions have asked the White House to address the “deepening crisis” facing the Postal Service, asserting that “the Obama administration must intervene now to avoid both a political and economic train wreck.” “The recession has had a severe impact on […]
Study to be completed in 60 days On June 10, 2009, USPS informed NALC that it was conducting a study of the impact of switching to five-day delivery and developing an implementation plan. The study was to be completed in 60 days. USPS sought our “input” and our views on the issues such a change […]