NALC – 6/30/24 – As NALC continues to finalize preparation and work out details for interest arbitration with USPS and the mutually selected chair of the interest arbitration panel, Arbitrator Dennis R. Nolan, the parties continue to negotiate in an effort to reach a tentative agreement.
For many years, NALC and USPS bargaining representatives have “locked down” in a hotel to engage in intensive, around-the-clock talks, including in the current round of collective bargaining. To build on recent progress in negotiations, NALC and USPS representatives have agreed to spend an additional week in early July in a hotel to work toward reaching agreement on the few economic and non-economic issues that remain unresolved.
NALC President Brian L. Renfroe said:
“We are pleased with the recent progress and potential opportunity to reach a fair agreement that rewards all letter carriers and compensates us for our value and the critical role we play in the Postal Service’s success.
Our goals in collective bargaining remain steadfast. While our interest arbitration case is strong and we will not hesitate to utilize that process fully if necessary to achieve our goals, we remain committed to exhausting every possibility to achieve a tentative agreement that meets our goals for our members to consider for ratification.
As we continue the negotiations process, I appreciate the hard work and diligence of NALC’s officers, staff, branch leadership, and the rank-and-file members of our union for their activism, input, and support that shapes NALC’s bargaining priorities.
From resolutions that start at the branch level and become our official bargaining positions to the thousands of letter carriers that communicate current issues and their priorities, this activism is the foundation of what we have historically achieved in this process and will achieve in this round of collective bargaining.”
I’m my opinion, we as carriers do our jobs. We are the ones in all the dangerous elements, gradually degrading our bodies so these higher ups can get their fat bonuses while constantly pushing us harder and harder with no more benefit to us. DeJoy’s overall compensation package in 2023 was $480,000! Yet we seem to constantly be struggling in all facets and taking the brunt of these failures. Yet I can barely afford to survive but take all the abuse that made him that salary. It’s disgusting. For someone who clearly isn’t doing his job properly and effectively, he sure is making a ton of money. The president of the United States makes an annual salary of $400,000….please explain this.
I hope in the negotiations the constant disgrace that letter carriers experience by the way management treats them is addressed. Along with all the man hours wasted by the supervisors on constantly trying to find ways of writing up employees on the many issues that get dismissed through the grievance process. If they would concentrate on reducing delivery times through adjusting routes according to their volumes. Instead of conductuping investigative interviews everyday that take time away from carriers doing their jobs the amount of overtime hours would greatly be reduced