The House of Representatives is expected soon to pass a six-month continuing resolution to keep the government in operation after Sept. 30, the end of Fiscal Year 2012, and indications are that the Senate will pass it as well. “Thanks in part to our activists’ lobbying efforts,” NALC President Fredric Rolando said, “the bill maintains […]
The following is courtesy of the Illinois State Association of Letter Carriers (ISALC Facebook Page) CONTRACT UPDATE – Interest arbitration began on Thursday (Sept 6). The USPS opened by offering a proposal that contained the following: NO raises, NO COLAs, NO Layoff Protection, a 25% TE workforce, and a two-tier wage scale. Yes, brothers and […]
Interest arbitration for a new National Agreement between the National Association of Letter Carriers and the United States Postal Service began formally on Thursday, Sept. 6. The hearing convened at NALC Headquarters in Washington, with the union’s entire Executive Council in attendance along with a contingent from the USPS. The three-member arbitration panel, consisting of […]
Statement from NALC President Fredric Rolando on Thursday’s quarterly financial statement by the U.S. Postal Service August 9, 2012 — Today’s figures reflect the congressional role in the Postal Service’s red ink and the need for Congress to address the damage it has done. The USPS reported that $3.1 billion of the $5.2 billion loss […]
July 27, 2012 — The pending Aug. 1 “default” of the U.S. Postal Service is not primarily the result of a bad market or even bad operations, but of bad legislating by Congress. The only thing that will happen on Wednesday is that the Postal Service will not pay $5.6 billion into a fund for […]
from NALC On July 3, the Interest Arbitration Board chaired by Arbitrator Jack Clarke issued its award setting the terms of a new four-and-a-half-year national agreement between the Postal Service and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association. Although the award addresses numerous issues unique to the rural letter carrier craft, the wages and benefits awarded […]
A Postal Regulatory Commission hearing today focused partly on the Cities’ Readiness Initiative, a program that uses the Postal Service’s universal network and the voluntary participation of letter carriers to protect Americans in the event of a biological incident, such as a terrorist attack. Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. […]
On Sunday evening, NALC President Fredric Rolando held a tele-townhall call with the NALC membership about the dangers of the House of Representatives taking up the job-killing postal bill, H.R. 2309. If the bill becomes law, it would dismantle the USPS and destroy 200,000 jobs – perhaps including yours. Sometime in the next three weeks, […]
The NALC and the Postal Service have agreed upon the selection of National Arbitrator Shyam Das as chairman of the three-person arbitration board that will set the terms of the next collective-bargaining agreement between the union and the USPS. “We will vigorously defend letter carriers’ wages and benefits and seek to advance our bargaining goals […]
NALC President Fredric V. Rolando’s letter to the editor of Politico was published on Friday, June 8. He calls “unrealistic” the 2006 congressional mandate that the Postal Service pre-fund retiree health benefits for the next 75 years, and do so in 10 years, which accounts for 95 percent of the Postal Service’s red ink this […]