Contract ratified! Approved by 9-to-1 margin Rank-and-file members of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) overwhelmingly ratified a new five-year National Agreement with the U.S. Postal Service covering city delivery letter carriers throughout the nation, the union announced today. The vote for ratification was 104,346 to 11,895 according to Joseph DeRossi of NALC Branch […]
(Press Release) The 300,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO) will announce its endorsement for the 2008 presidential election on Wednesday morning, September 12 in a briefing at 11 a.m. EDT at NALC Headquarters in Washington. NALC President William H. Young will be joined by the endorsed candidate at the event. The announcement will follow […]
Message fron NALC: Votes in the rank-and-file ballot referendum on ratification of the tentative agreement for a new five-year contract must be received by the Ballot Committee by 11:59 p.m. on August 27 in order to be counted However, the deadline is being extended to 11:59 p.m. on September 6 for 16,630 members whose ballots […]
The ballots were placed in the mailstream beginning August 6 to 217,505 NALC active letter carrier members in good standing as of April 13, 2007 and must be received by the Ballot Committee by 11:59 p.m. on August 27 in order to be counted. http://www.nalc.org/news/bulletin/PDF2007/Bull07-14.pdf
Tentative Agreement Reached On City Letter Carriers Contract NALC Press Release – The National Association of Letter Carriers reached tentative agreement today with the U.S. Postal Service on a new five-year National Agreement for all 222,000 city delivery letter carriers throughout the nation. The pact, which includes new limits on contracting out of city letter […]
“NALC President Bill Young, joined by National Rural Letter Carriers President Donnie Pitts, sent a letter to members of the U.S. Senate on June 18 refuting a letter from the postmaster general that tried to justify contracting out delivery work and attacked legislation to draw sharp limits on contract delivery. Both union leaders support Sen. […]
Letter Carriers Set July 1 Picketing in New Jersey to Oppose ‘Contracting Out’ by Postal Service PATERSON, N.J.- Members of Paterson Branch 120 of the National Association of Letter Carriers will engage in informational picketing on Sunday, July 1, at the Paterson Post Office to protest a growing policy of the U.S. Postal Service to […]
by APWU President William Burrus on Contracting Out Mail Delivery My testimony last month [PDF] before the House Oversight and Reform Committee revealed differences of opinion between the APWU on the one hand and the other postal unions and management associations on the other, regarding the issue of congressional interference in collective bargaining. The long-standing APWU […]
“NALC’s Letter Carrier Statue in Plankinton Square dedicated at the Centennial Celebration in Milwaukee, WI on August 30, 1989.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/retinalfetish/515120078/
Young Praises Move to Protect Letter Carriers (NALC Bulletin) Sen.Tom Harkin (D-IA) on May 23 introduced in the U. S. Senate legislation to protect city and rural letter carriers from having their work contracted out by the U.S. Postal Service to private firms and individuals. The bill, S. 1457, is titled the “Mail Delivery Protection […]