{"id":38030,"date":"2025-06-16T14:26:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=38030"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:27:45","slug":"national-rural-letter-carriers-association-approves-contract-with-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/06\/16\/national-rural-letter-carriers-association-approves-contract-with-usps\/","title":{"rendered":"National Rural Letter Carriers\u2019 Association approves contract with USPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6\/16\/24 &#8211; The National Rural Letter Carriers\u2019 Association membership has ratified a new three-year labor contract with the Postal Service.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will run through May 20, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the agreement include annual general wage increases, semi-annual cost-of-living adjustments, measures designed to assist with rural carrier associate retention, and maintenance of the operational flexibility achieved by using noncareer rural carrier associates and assistant rural carriers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis agreement is economically responsible, fair to our employees and serves the best interest of our customers,\u201d said Acting Postmaster General Doug Tulino. \u201cThe agreement aligns with the Postal Service mission to provide reliable, value-driven mail and package delivery service to all Americans in fulfillment of our universal service obligation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The union, also known as the NRLCA, represents more than 130,000 rural letter carriers nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usps.com\/2025\/06\/16\/national-rural-letter-carriers-association-approves-contract-with-usps\/\">USPS News Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/USPS495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-30360\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/USPS495-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/USPS495-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/USPS495-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6\/16\/24 &#8211; The National Rural Letter Carriers\u2019 Association membership has ratified a new three-year labor contract with the Postal Service. The agreement will run through May 20, 2027. Highlights of the agreement include annual general wage increases, semi-annual cost-of-living adjustments, measures designed to assist with rural carrier associate retention, and maintenance of the operational flexibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38030","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=38030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38033,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38030\/revisions\/38033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}