Arbitration board issues award – Sets terms of the 2011-2016 National Agreement ‘NALC achieves its major goals,’ Rolando says Jan. 11, 2013 –The three-person board of arbitrators has issued a final and binding award that sets the terms of a four-and-a-half-year collective-bargaining agreement between the National Association of Letter Carriers and the U.S. Postal Service, […]
NALC President testifies to arbitrators: Click here to read NALC President Fredric V. Rolando’s concluding testimony to the three-member interest arbitration board that will set the terms of a new National Agreement between the NALC and the U.S. Postal Service. Rolando’s testimony in particular discusses the unique contributions the NALC and its members make to […]
From NALC Important note regarding think-tank’s postal privatization study: You might have seen or heard media reports about a Washington think-tank’s proposal to study the effects of a possible privatization of parts of the U.S. Postal Service. (Click here to read an article in The Washington Post.) While it’s true that one of the proposal’s […]
OPM’s decision is misleading on two counts. The current near-record low interest rates produce a misleading figure that is likely to change; beyond that, OPM’s use of generic assumptions on wages and mortality (as opposed to ones applicable to postal employees) badly skews the results. Simply using accurate data going in would produce a surplus […]
Statement from Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers: Today’s report makes clear that the financial crisis at the Postal Service is largely political in nature—and that the Postal Service is actually returning to health in operational terms as the economy improves. The deficit from postal operations declined from $4.9 billion in […]
On Thursday, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), the retiring chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, called a bipartisan meeting of House and Senate leaders to discuss his alarming idea to allow the U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday mail delivery service but retain package delivery service on that day. “While I’m sure Senator […]
The interest arbitration board that will set the terms of a new National Agreement between NALC and USPS, chaired by Shyam Das, convened by telephone in executive session on Thursday. The session was held after hearings dates scheduled for Monday, Oct. 29, and Wednesday Oct. 31, had to be rescheduled due to the impact of […]
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, had a great response today to Charles Lane’s piece in The Washington Post attacking the Postal Service. Click here to read Baker’s article posted on BusinessInsider.com.
Oct. 18, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) today issued a statement from its president, Fredric Rolando, on the U.S. Postal Service reaching its $15 billion borrowing limit: “We encourage the media to pause and fully consider the situation before jumping to the conclusion that the U.S. Post Service, having […]
Memorandum of Understanding: The NALC and USPS have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding which will alleviate some of the staffing issues in many delivery units by providing for a) the conversion of over 6,000 part-time flexible city letter carriers to full-time regular, b) the filling of vacant residual CC-01 and CC-02 positions that are […]