{"id":20624,"date":"2017-08-16T08:21:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=20624"},"modified":"2017-08-16T08:21:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:21:36","slug":"apwu-second-significant-cola-increase-of-2017-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/08\/16\/apwu-second-significant-cola-increase-of-2017-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: Second Significant COLA Increase of 2017 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APWU News &#8211; 08\/11\/2017 &#8211; In accordance with the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement, career employees represented by the APWU will receive a 13 cents per hour cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) effective September 2. The increase is the result of an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W). The increase will appear in paychecks dated September 22, 2017 (Pay Period 19-2017), and will total $270.00 per year.<\/p>\n<p>The next COLA increase will be based on the Januay 2018 CPI-W and will be effective in the second full pay period after the release of January 2018 CPI-W. The last COLA increase of the 2015-2018 CBA will be based on the July 2018 CPI-W and effective un the second full pay period after the release of the July 2018 CPI-W. The cost-of-living adjustments are in addition to general wage increases.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth cost-of-living increase under the 2015-2018 contract:<\/p>\n<p>$0.00 The first COLA would have been effective September 5, 2015<br \/>\n$0.00 The second COLA would have been effective March 5, 2016.<br \/>\n$21.00 The third COLA was effective September 3, 2016.<br \/>\n$333.00 The fourth COLA was effective March 18, 2017.<br \/>\n$270.00 The fifth COLA increase effective September 2, 2017.<br \/>\nPostal Support Employees do not receive cost-of-living increases, but they have five general wage increases under the 2015-2018 contract. On May 13, 2017 PSEs received a $0.20 per hour pay increase. On May 26, 2018, they will receive a $0.21 pay increase.<\/p>\n<p>Updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apwu.org\/resource-types\/pay-scales\">pay scales<\/a> are available.<\/p>\n<p><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; 08\/11\/2017 &#8211; In accordance with the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement, career employees represented by the APWU will receive a 13 cents per hour cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) effective September 2. The increase is the result of an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W). The increase will appear in paychecks dated September 22, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20624","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\/20624","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=20624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20625,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20624\/revisions\/20625"}],"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=20624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}