SAN RAMON, Calif. (KGO) — 10/31/24 – A surveillance video has once again solved a whodunit for a Bay Area viewer. An East Bay dad arrived home to find that someone had crashed into his parked car. At first, he suspected his teenage kids who had been driving it that day. Then, he checked his […]
NALC: 10/18/24 -The National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO and the United States Postal Service have reached tentative agreement on a new collective-bargaining agreement for city letter carriers. In accordance with Article 16 of the NALC Constitution, the agreement will be subject to ratification by a mail referendum vote by eligible NALC members. “After almost 20 […]
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ/Gray News) – 10/4/24 – A Postal Service worker in Virginia suffered serious injuries after a tree fell on his truck while he was delivering mail last week. United States Postal Service mail carrier Craig Musil was out on his delivery route when a tree fell on his mail truck on Sept. 27. […]
9/11/24 – USPS – Postal Service employees collected 44 million pounds of food during this year’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive, which was held May 11. The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) leads the annual one-day drive, with help from USPS and other organizations. “Letter carriers showed up again for their communities and helped […]
NALC – 7/26/24 – On July 25, President Biden nominated Val Demings and William Zollars to serve on the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors (BOG). Demings is a Democratic nominee. If confirmed by the Senate, she would fill Anton Hajjar’s seat, which expired on Dec. 8, 2023. Her term would expire on Dec. 8, […]
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 […]
6/25/224 – The American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO welcomes this opportunity to represent approximately 200,000 postal workers in these important negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between our union and the United States Postal Service. For generations postal workers were denied our right to negotiate over wages, benefits, and conditions of employment. Instead, workers […]
NALC: On May 16, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced the Protect Our Letter Carriers Act (H.R. 7629/S. 4356). The Senate companion bill comes after Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Greg Landsman (D-OH) introduced the bill in the House in March, which currently has 71 cosponsors. The bipartisan legislation, which mirrors H.R. […]
NORTH HIGHLANDS — 7/24/23 – A 73-year-old mail carrier is in recovery Monday after he was attacked by a dog in North Highlands while on the job last week. The man typically delivered mail to the dog’s owner from the street, the owner told CBS13 on Monday, but would not share his name and did […]
7/20/23 – A former U.S. Postal Service employee faces federal charges of embezzling from the union that represents Scottsbluff-area postal carriers. A federal grand jury for the District of Nebraska indicted Jacob Wilkins, 42, on three counts, according to information released by the U.S. attorney for the District of Nebraska. Wilkins is charged with one […]