Letter Carriers Bring in Top Financial and Policy Experts to Advise upon Postal Reforms Aim is to Continue High Quality Universal Postal Service and Middle-Class Jobs WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) today announced the retention of investment bank Lazard Group, LLC and former assistant to President Barack […]
October 13, 2011 — The GAO is simply wrong in denying the overpayment, and in doing so it differs with the USPS, the Office of Inspector General (of the Postal Service), the Postal Regulatory Commission, two independent actuaries, and legislators from both parties and both chambers of Congress who’ve addressed the issue in current legislation. […]
NALC vows to continue the fight to maintain six-day delivery and “Save America’s Postal Service” Overview On Sept. 19, President Obama sent a $3 trillion deficit reduction package to the special joint committee of Congress established by the debt limit law to find ways to reduce the federal budget deficit. The package included a number […]
The ninth and final cost-of-living adjustment as negotiated under the 2006-2011 National Agreement is $978 annually, based on the July Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) announced Aug. 18 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is effective in Pay Period 20, which begins Sept. 10 […]
NALC President Rolando sent the following letter to PMG Donahoe August 15, 2011 Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe United States Postal Service 475 L’Enfant Plaza, S.W. Washington, DC 20260-0010 Dear Postmaster General Donahoe, I write to state in the strongest possible terms our outrage at DSPS lobbying the Congress to break our labor contract, and to […]
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 to the recent […]
NALC to defend members, ‘America’s Postal Service in 2011 contract talks NALC Press Release Washington — The National Association of Letter Carriers promised to vigorously represent the country’s most trusted federal employees and to defend the long-term viability of America’s most trusted federal agency, the United States Postal Service, in negotiations for a new labor […]
From NALC 8.12.2011 The ‘Big Lie’ about postal ‘bankruptcy’ 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 […]
NALC President Fredric V. Rolando has issued a statement to denounce Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s latest “radical” legislative proposals: Today, city letter carriers across the country received a mandatory stand-up talk from supervisors as part of a concerted campaign by top postal management to convince Congress to slash postal employees’ health and pension benefits and […]
Below is a column by NALC President Fredric V. Rolando published in The Baltimore Sun on Thursday, August 11. Reducing postal service is not the answer Post office financial woes have nothing to do with mail delivery and everything to do with a misguided retiree health policy By Fredric Rolando Few institutions touch more Americans […]