{"id":18232,"date":"2017-02-16T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=18232"},"modified":"2017-02-16T09:13:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:13:14","slug":"apwu-significant-cola-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/02\/16\/apwu-significant-cola-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: Significant COLA Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">APWU News &#8211; 02\/15\/2017<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Career employees represented by the APWU will receive a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>16 cent per hour<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) effective March 4, in accordance with the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement (Postal Support Employees are not eligible for cost-of-living increases, but they receive five general wage increases under the 2015-2018 contract). The increase is the result of an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W). The increase will appear in paychecks dated March 24 (Pay Period 06-2017), and will total<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>$333.00 per year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second cost-of-living increase under the 2015-2018 contract.<\/p>\n<p>APWU COLA benefits \u201cunderscore the importance of collective bargaining rights,\u201d said President Mark Dimondstein. \u201cIt is because APWU members have joined together in a union, and negotiate together, that the contract includes COLA raises based on the CPI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next COLA increase will be based on the July 2017 CPI-W and will be effective in September 2017. Additional COLAs will be based on the January 2018 and July 2018 CPI-W.<\/p>\n<p>The cost-of-living adjustments are in addition to general wage increases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Updated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apwu.org\/resource-types\/pay-scales\">pay scales<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>are available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.apwu.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7249\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU News &#8211; 02\/15\/2017\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Career employees represented by the APWU will receive a\u00a016 cent per hour\u00a0cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) effective March 4, in accordance with the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement (Postal Support Employees are not eligible for cost-of-living increases, but they receive five general wage increases under the 2015-2018 contract). The increase is the result of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232","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=18232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18233,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232\/revisions\/18233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}