{"id":14972,"date":"2016-05-12T20:10:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T01:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14972"},"modified":"2016-05-12T20:10:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T01:10:40","slug":"npmhu-issues-contract-update-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/05\/12\/npmhu-issues-contract-update-6\/","title":{"rendered":"NPMHU Issues Contract Update #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>USPS Delivers Financial Presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NPMHU &#8211; 2016 No. 6 \u2013 May 12, 2016<\/p>\n<p>This past week the Postal Service presented the NPMHU bargaining team with its official, on-the-record Financial Presentation.\u00a0 This did not include a proposed wage or benefit package for the 2016 National Agreement, but rather focused on the Postal Service\u2019s current financial situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The presentation was slightly dated, primarily relying on data from Fiscal Year 2015 (ending on September 30, 2015) and the first quarter of FY2016 to reach its conclusions.\u00a0 It also focused on the termination of the exigent rate increase that led to a reduction in postage rates last month.\u00a0 However, it appears that the projections made in the presentation were fairly accurate.\u00a0 Outlined were the Postal Service\u2019s views on the root causes of its financial instability, the steps it has taken thus far to deal with this financial situation, and the additional actions that it believes are still necessary to cope with the formidable financial challenges that lie ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npmhu.org\/topics\/contract-updates\/body\/2016-Contract-Update-6.pdf\">Read 2016 Contract Update #6<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a>(pdf)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13103\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo.jpg\" alt=\"npmhu1-logo\" width=\"360\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo.jpg 360w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPS Delivers Financial Presentation NPMHU &#8211; 2016 No. 6 \u2013 May 12, 2016 This past week the Postal Service presented the NPMHU bargaining team with its official, on-the-record Financial Presentation.\u00a0 This did not include a proposed wage or benefit package for the 2016 National Agreement, but rather focused on the Postal Service\u2019s current financial situation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14972","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\/14972","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=14972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14973,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972\/revisions\/14973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}