{"id":11011,"date":"2015-05-21T07:53:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2015-05-21T07:53:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:53:07","slug":"usps-and-rural-carriers-contract-talks-reach-impasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/05\/21\/usps-and-rural-carriers-contract-talks-reach-impasse\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS and Rural Carriers Contract Talks Reach Impasse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcom.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">PostCom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>On May 20, negotiations on a new labor contract between the United States Postal Service and the National Rural Letter Carriers\u2019 Association (NRLCA) came to an impasse. The parties will continue to follow the current agreement until a new contract is reached through the dispute resolution process. The NRLCA represents more than 116,000 employees who deliver mail primarily in rural and suburban areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Rural-Carriers-Assoc.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1363\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Rural-Carriers-Assoc-300x168.gif\" alt=\"Rural Letterc Carriers' Association\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Rural-Carriers-Assoc-300x168.gif 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Rural-Carriers-Assoc.gif 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From PostCom: On May 20, negotiations on a new labor contract between the United States Postal Service and the National Rural Letter Carriers\u2019 Association (NRLCA) came to an impasse. The parties will continue to follow the current agreement until a new contract is reached through the dispute resolution process. The NRLCA represents more than 116,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011","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=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11012,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions\/11012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}