Oversight committee mark-up of ‘new’ postal bill postponed May 07, 2014 – NALC The mark-up of Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) latest postal bill has been postponed indefinitely. “We’re glad to see the hearing on this counterproductive bill postponed,” NALC President Fredric Rolando said. “With the Postal Service now operationally profitable, any bill that diminishes service […]
Alliance sends letter to House committee leaders NALC – April 2014 The presidents of the four postal employee unions—NALC, APWU, NRLCA and NPMHU—wrote a letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) to share the unions’ views on President Obama’s budget proposals for 2015. Click […]
April 10, 2014—On April 3, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service arrested Emmanuel Alphonse and Steven Toussaint. The two are accused of laundering money obtained from stolen identity tax refund fraud. These latest arrests bring the total number to nine for subjects charged in connection with the murder of South Florida Branch 1071 letter carrier Bruce […]
April, 8, 2014—Following today’s House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the Obama administration’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget request for the United States Postal Service, National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando released the following statement: Today’s hearing focused on the Obama administration’s proposals to slash postal services, proposals that were first developed during […]
NALC and the Postal Service have agreed on extensions and modifications of three memorandums of understanding. The first, Re: Full-time Regular Opportunities – City Letter Carrier Craft (M-01834), extends the August 30, 2013 MOU Re: Residual Vacancies – City Letter Carrier Craft (M-01824) through May 31, 2014 and, effective June 1, 2014, incorporates changes to […]
The Postal Service has announced the deployment of a new Mobile Delivery Device (MDD) to be used by letter carriers. The device, from Honeywell, will transmit scan data in real time and will replace the current Intelligent Mail Device (IMD) and paired cell phone. For detailed information on the new MDD, read an advance copy […]
NALC President Fredric Rolando has sent a letter to the leaders of the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Census, registering the union’s concerns about the subcommittee’s March 13 hearing on USPS finances. “This hearing was yet another example of how anti-USPS and anti-worker forces in Congress are trying to manufacture a […]
NALC President Fredric Rolando has joined with the leaders of several other labor organizations in signing a letter from the AFL-CIO to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The letter signals the federation’s disappointment with the DCCC in its effort to defeat Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) in this fall’s mid-term election. “The role of the […]
NALC news March 14, 2014—Buffalo-Western New York Branch 3 letter carrier Leo Sucharski, 76, died on Sunday, March 9, following an injury he sustained while on duty. Three days earlier on March 6, after delivering the mail, Sucharski had returned to his Eastside Station post office and parked his two-ton truck in the parking lot. […]
NALC – March 11, 2014 The Postal Service has announced the deployment of a new Mobile Delivery Device (MDD) to be used by letter carriers. The device, from Honeywell, will transmit scan data in real time and will replace the current Intelligent Mail Device (IMD) and paired cell phone. For detailed information on the new […]