{"id":2708,"date":"2011-08-29T23:11:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T04:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2011-08-29T23:11:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T04:11:53","slug":"ninth-nalc-contract-cola-totals-978-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/08\/29\/ninth-nalc-contract-cola-totals-978-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninth NALC Contract COLA Totals $978 Annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NALC-News8.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2709\" title=\"NALC News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NALC-News8-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ninth and final cost-of-living adjustment as negotiated under the 2006-2011 National Agreement is $978 annually, based on the July Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) announced Aug. 18 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is effective in Pay Period 20, which begins Sept. 10 (pay date Sept. 30). The COLA was based on the increase in the CPI-W between January 2011 and July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The COLA is equal to just over 47 cents per hour, or $37.60 per pay period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ninth and final cost-of-living adjustment as negotiated under the 2006-2011 National Agreement is $978 annually, based on the July Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) announced Aug. 18 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is effective in Pay Period 20, which begins Sept. 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","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=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2710,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}