The San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council (CLC) has unanimously voted to picket Congressman Darrel Issa’s main district office in Vista, California (just north of San Diego) on Thursday, Sept 1. NALC President Fredric Rolando has decided to make this a much larger action, and he has sent out a statewide E-Activist. The NALC […]
September COLA announced: Letter carriers will receive their first cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in three years in September. The COLA will amount to 47 cents per hour ($978 annually). Contract COLAs, which have been provided by our collective-bargaining agreements since 1971, are based on changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) every six months. However, due […]
National Association of Letter Carriers Yesterday, in a mandatory stand-up talk, Postal Service management all across the country told letter carriers: “If we were a private company, we would have already filed for bankruptcy and gone through restructuring—much like major automakers did two years ago.” The Service repeated this claim in a press release distributed […]
PRNote: With one month to go,$1019 may be the second largest COLA in bargaining history Ninth contract Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA): $1,019 annually. The projected accumulation toward the ninth and final contract COLA under the 2006-2011 National Agreement stands at $1,019 annually following the June release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for May. […]
Congressman Dennis Ross (R-FL), who chairs the House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service and District of Columbia, has posted a floor statement entitled Postal Service “Overpayment” – Myth v. Fact on his website, where he tried to dispel three alleged myths about the Postal Service’s pensions and retiree health pre-funding burden. Unfortunately, his […]
June 22, 2011 — The Postal Service announced on June 22 that it is suspending its bi-weekly contributions to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) benefits (11.7% of basic pay), because its FERS account within the government-wide pension plan has a large surplus, and because it would like to […]
June 16, 2011 — By all appearances, Glenn Garvin has had a distinguished career as a journalist. But the current T.V. writer for The Miami Herald tripped badly in his debut as a critic of the Postal Service. Indeed, if “Mark a U.S. Postal Service bailout ‘return to sender’” were a pilot episode on television, […]
With Hunger Rising, and School Food Programs Ending, Effort Will Help Feed Needy Families in All 50 States June 4 – In another successful nationwide food drive, the National Association of Letter Carriers collected 70.2 million pounds of food on May 14, at a time when hunger is a growing problem. The NALC’s annual one-day […]
Extends Flexibility to Adjust to America’s Changing Mailing Trends WASHINGTON — It’s official. The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) AFL-CIO ratified March 14 tentative labor contract agreement with the U.S. Postal Service that will save the nation’s mail system $3.8 billion over the four and a half year life of the contract that becomes effective […]
Sen. Carper introduced postal reform bill yesterday May 18, 2011 In conjunction with a Senate subcommittee hearing held Wednesday on the financial condition of the U.S. Postal Service, Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) introduced a new version of the Postal Operations Sustainment and Transformation Act. The POST Act (introduced as Senate bill S. 1010) would fairly […]