{"id":379,"date":"2009-05-05T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=379"},"modified":"2009-05-05T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T18:02:36","slug":"nalc-president-young-announces-pending-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2009\/05\/05\/nalc-president-young-announces-pending-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC President Young Announces Pending Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-378\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nalc.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-378\" title=\"nalc\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nalc-150x150.gif\" alt=\"NALC\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NALC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NALC President William H. Young surprised many in attendance by announcing that he plans to retire soon \u2013 probably before the end of the year \u2013 at which time under the Constitution he will turn the reins of the union over to Executive Vice President Fred Rolando.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have served as a full-time officer for this union for half my life \u2013 31 of my 62 years,\u201d Young said. He said he has not yet set a definite date. \u201cIt is my privilege to be the president of the greatest union in America,\u201d Young<br \/>\nadded.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Garden Grove, California Branch 1100 President Charlie Miller led a letter carriers\u2019 cheer for Young.Young\u2019s announcement came at the Sunday morning Rap Session, which followed a day of workshops led by national officers on the route adjustment process, city delivery and contract administration issues, community service and Postal Service finances \u2013 all affected by the economic crisis that has swept the nation and caused concern for both the Postal Service and the NALC.<\/p>\n<p>Post Comments Below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nalc.org\/news\/bulletin\/PDF2009\/Bull09-08.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">See NALC Bulletin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NALC President William H. Young surprised many in attendance by announcing that he plans to retire soon \u2013 probably before the end of the year \u2013 at which time under the Constitution he will turn the reins of the union over to Executive Vice President Fred Rolando. \u201cI have served as a full-time officer for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","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=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}