{"id":4976,"date":"2012-08-20T07:06:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=4976"},"modified":"2012-08-20T07:06:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:06:05","slug":"apwu-cola-increase-due-september-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/08\/20\/apwu-cola-increase-due-september-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU COLA Increase Due September 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/APWU-News5.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4977\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/APWU-News5-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>APWU members will receive a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of $375 per year in September 2013, in accordance with the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement. The raise is the result of an increase in the consumer price index (CPI-W) since January 2012. It is the second COLA under the contract. The expected effective date is Sept. 7, 2013 (Pay Period 20-2013).<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the 2010 National Agreement, the first two cost-of-living adjustments are based on the January and July 2012 CPI-W but are deferred until 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The first COLA under the contract is $62 per year and is expected to become effective on March 9, 2013 (Pay Period 07-2013).<\/p>\n<p>There will be seven COLAs under the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement, with the five remaining adjustments based on the January 2013, July 2013, January 2014, July 2014, and January 2015 CPI-W.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/dept\/ind-rel\/irpayinfo.htm\" target=\"_blank\">more pay information<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU members will receive a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of $375 per year in September 2013, in accordance with the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement. The raise is the result of an increase in the consumer price index (CPI-W) since January 2012. It is the second COLA under the contract. The expected effective date is Sept. 7, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976","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=4976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}