{"id":24031,"date":"2018-08-11T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T13:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=24031"},"modified":"2018-08-11T08:21:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T13:21:58","slug":"seventh-and-final-cola-under-the-2015-apwu-contract-agreement-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/08\/11\/seventh-and-final-cola-under-the-2015-apwu-contract-agreement-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh and Final COLA under the 2015 APWU Contract Agreement Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<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<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">APWU News &#8211; 08\/10\/2018<\/span>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/span>In accordance with the 2015-2018 APWU\/USPS Collective Bargaining Agreement (union contract), career employees represented by the APWU will receive a\u00a0<strong>31 cent per hour<\/strong>\u00a0cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), effective September 1, 2018. It will appear in paychecks dated\u00a0<strong>September 21, 2018 (Pay Period 19-2018)<\/strong>,\u00a0and will total\u00a0<strong>$645.00 per year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The COLAs are in addition to general wage increases.<\/p>\n<p>This is the seventh and final cost-of-living adjustment under the 2015-2018 contract:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$0.00 The first COLA would have been effective Sept. 5, 2015<\/li>\n<li>$0.00 The second COLA would have been effective March 5, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>$21.00 The third COLA was effective Sept. 3, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>$333.00 The fourth COLA was effective March 18, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>$270.00 The fifth COLA increase effective Sept. 2, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>$520.00 The sixth COLA effective March 3, 2018.<\/li>\n<li class=\"last\">$645.00 The seventh COLA effective Sept. 1, 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The COLAs received during the 2015-2018 CBA will total $1,789 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Postal Support Employees (PSEs) do not receive cost-of-living increases, but had five general wage increases under the 2015-2018 contract. PSEs received a pay increase of 21 cents on May 26, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Updated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/resource-types\/pay-scales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pay scales<\/a>\u00a0are available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU News &#8211; 08\/10\/2018\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0In accordance with the 2015-2018 APWU\/USPS Collective Bargaining Agreement (union contract), career employees represented by the APWU will receive a\u00a031 cent per hour\u00a0cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), effective September 1, 2018. It will appear in paychecks dated\u00a0September 21, 2018 (Pay Period 19-2018),\u00a0and will total\u00a0$645.00 per year. The COLAs are in addition to general wage [&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-24031","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\/24031","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=24031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24033,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24031\/revisions\/24033"}],"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=24031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}