Press Release from the National Association of Letter Carriers The head of the National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO) said today that frequent postage rate increases like the one today that boosted a first-class stamp to 44 cents – while necessary for the U.S. Postal Service to function effectively this year – can and should […]
Press Release frm the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Letter carriers across the country will collect non-perishable food donations Saturday (May 9) as they deliver mail along their postal routes in the nation’s largest one-day effort to Stamp Out Hunger. The 17 th annual Letter Carriers’ National Food Drive is being conducted by the National […]
From National Association of Letter Carriers Bulletin NALC President William H. Young surprised many in attendance by announcing that he plans to retire soon – probably before the end of the year – at which time under the Constitution he will turn the reins of the union over to Executive Vice President Fred Rolando. “I […]
APWU In March, the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) rose to 617.239, still well below the July 2008 index of 644.303 (upon which our last COLA increase was based). The CPI-W must rise above 644.303 before another COLA is due. After the second month of the six-month measuring period, and assuming the adjustment were based on […]
NALC and USPS agree to Modified Interim Alternate Route Adjustment Process: The NALC and the Postal Service have entered into a Memorandum of Agreement on a Modified Interim Alternate Route Adjustment Process for 2009. Jointly issued details regarding each provision of the Agreement will follow. Click here to review the Memorandum of Agreement itself.
APWU News Postal workers won an important legal victory March 30, when a district court judge upheld the right of the APWU and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) to pursue a lawsuit against the USPS and the USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for “widespread and systematic intrusions” into the medical records […]
Arbitrator Das, ruling in an NALC grievance in which the APWU intervened, ordered the Postal Service to rescind changes agreed to by the APWU and the USPS in a 2006 MOU “Re: Limited Duty and Rehabilitation Assignments Within APWU Crafts Involving Workers from Other Crafts.” The MOU provided that the reassignment or reemployment of an […]
From National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) The Postal Service has informed President Young that city letter carriers will be included in its new Voluntary Early Retirement offer. The timing for VER applications and deadline for action has not been set, but it will have the same terms as the 2008 “early out” program, Young […]
Getting the facts right on USPS and EFCA Postal arbitration makes case for EFCA Former postal manager David C. Bakke got his facts wrong and misled your readers with his March 17 letter concerning your editorial on the Employee Free Choice Act (“The Union Cudgel,” March 11). “Most” Postal Service contract negotiations since 1971 have […]
According to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decision rendered on March 13, 2009 Ms. [Lynn] Vaughn served as the EAS-20 Manager, Customer Services at the Glenridge Post Office in Atlanta, Georgia. On April 26, 2007, Charles Gracek, Manager, Customer Service Operations, Atlanta, Georgia Post Office, proposed demoting Ms. Vaughn to the EAS-17 position of […]