{"id":10072,"date":"2015-02-13T08:35:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10072"},"modified":"2015-02-13T08:35:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:35:52","slug":"nalc-joins-grand-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/02\/13\/nalc-joins-grand-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC joins \u2018Grand Alliance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NALC has joined a wide range of progressive national organizations in a coalition known as \u201cA Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The alliance\u2019s stated goal is to fight for the protection and enhancement of a vibrant USPS, both now and for generations to come. It is made up of a broad group of unions, civil rights, religious organizations and progressive policy advocates that support high-quality public services for all Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new alliance is a good complement to the one the NALC and the other postal unions have been working closely with over the past 18 months,\u201d NALC President Fredric Rolando said, \u201ca group made up of postal union and mailing industry stakeholders with a mission to advance in Congress a multi-point postal strategy that includes a comprehensive solution to pre-funding, freedom to offer new products, fair treatment on pension valuations, strengthened service standards and a moratorium on plant closings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Letter carriers can expect to see advertisements for this alliance in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>The Washington Post<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and<em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And be sure to <a title=\"Video: 64 National Organizations Launch \u2018Grand Alliance\u2019 to Save Our Public Postal Service\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/02\/video-64-national-organizations-launch-grand-alliance-to-save-our-public-postal-service\/\">check out this video<\/a> featuring acclaimed actor Danny Glover, who has deep family and personal ties to the Postal Service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3-NALC-News-Small4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6526\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3-NALC-News-Small4.gif\" alt=\"3-NALC News Small\" width=\"254\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NALC has joined a wide range of progressive national organizations in a coalition known as \u201cA Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service.\u201d The alliance\u2019s stated goal is to fight for the protection and enhancement of a vibrant USPS, both now and for generations to come. It is made up of a broad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10073,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions\/10073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}