Rural letter carriers agreement

from NALC On July 3, the Interest Arbitration Board chaired by Arbitrator Jack Clarke issued its award setting the terms of a new four-and-a-half-year national agreement between the Postal Service and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association. Although the award addresses numerous issues unique to the rural letter carrier craft, the wages and benefits awarded […]

Praise for letter carriers’ participation in Cities’ Readiness Initiative

A Postal Regulatory Commission hearing today focused partly on the Cities’ Readiness Initiative, a program that uses the Postal Service’s universal network and the voluntary participation of letter carriers to protect Americans in the event of a biological incident, such as a terrorist attack. Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. […]

Stand up for the Postal Service and your job against H.R. 2309

On Sunday evening, NALC President Fredric Rolando held a tele-townhall call with the NALC membership about the dangers of the House of Representatives taking up the job-killing postal bill, H.R. 2309. If the bill becomes law, it would dismantle the USPS and destroy 200,000 jobs – perhaps including yours. Sometime in the next three weeks, […]

Shyam Das named arbitration chair for next NALC-USPS pact

The NALC and the Postal Service have agreed upon the selection of National Arbitrator Shyam Das as chairman of the three-person arbitration board that will set the terms of the next collective-bargaining agreement between the union and the USPS. “We will vigorously defend letter carriers’ wages and benefits and seek to advance our bargaining goals […]

NALC: New Guide to Route Inspections Now Available

The 2012 NALC Guide to Route Inspections was created to assist shop stewards and branch officers in identifying contractual violations that take place during management’s unilateral six-day route counts and inspections / adjustments, and with filing successful grievances on those violations. The sections in this guide take you through the inspection in chronological order and […]

The Case Against S. 1789

Overview: It’s a short-term fix, not a long-term solution The Senate bill will not fix the Postal Service because it provides only short-term financial relief from the uniquely unfair and excessive burden to pre-fund future retiree health benefits and it fails to offer a viable business model for the 21st century. See Lazard report on […]

NALC responds to closings announcement

The postmaster general announced on Thursday, May 17, that he would move forward with the closing of hundreds of mail-processing plants. That followed his announcement on Wednesday, May 9, that rather than proceed with post office closings he would sharply reduce hours in thousands of rural post offices. In response to the latest announcement, NALC […]

House action amounts to federal pay cut

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives, on a mostly party-line vote, approved a budget measure Thursday that would require federal employees in both the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees Retirement System to contribute 5 percent more of salary toward their pensions—in effect, a 5 percent cut in pay phased in for current workers […]

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