08/10/2018 – In accordance with the 2015-2018 APWU/USPS Collective Bargaining Agreement (union contract), career employees represented by the APWU will receive a 31 cent per hour cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), effective September 1, 2018. It will appear in paychecks dated September 21, 2018 (Pay Period 19-2018), and will total $645.00 per year.
The COLAs are in addition to general wage increases.
This is the seventh and final cost-of-living adjustment under the 2015-2018 contract:
- $0.00 The first COLA would have been effective Sept. 5, 2015
- $0.00 The second COLA would have been effective March 5, 2016.
- $21.00 The third COLA was effective Sept. 3, 2016.
- $333.00 The fourth COLA was effective March 18, 2017.
- $270.00 The fifth COLA increase effective Sept. 2, 2017.
- $520.00 The sixth COLA effective March 3, 2018.
- $645.00 The seventh COLA effective Sept. 1, 2018.
The COLAs received during the 2015-2018 CBA will total $1,789 per year.
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.
Updated pay scales are available.
no one ever lost money underestimating the stupidity of a postal worker!
so zero cola was good under bath house barry…..he took out food and fuel you fools. he screwed you! inflation was going up from 2008-2016 and you got nothing! Harvard MBA’s your not! we are getting colas becaure Trump is using true inflation measures. (ie-food and fuel was put back in you morons)
keep your diet cola….give me the 40K BUYOUT!
It’s not a good thing that the 2 highest COLA are under the current president.. What this signifies is the Cost Of Living has gone up with the current president and to help compensate postal employees for prices going up at the grocery store, the gas station, buying a car, etc we get these COLA raises.
So Trump supporters are proud that their current presidents policies have raised prices on products we buy on a daily basis? These COLA’s are not coming even close to the increased prices I am seeing on a daily basis.
People are thanking The Liar in Chief for this COLA? Understand that when we get a COLA it means the cost of living has gone up. Real wages are lagging.
AMEN TO THAT SISTER BOONE!!
march 3, 2018 & sept 1, 2018…..best cola’s……..who is president on those dates?
Hey , you Trump supporters ( dummies ) want to give that idiot credit for a small Cola. This is the same man who wants to take your supplement from Fers. Also go to a high 5 instead of 3 , got to strictly a 401 instead of a blended retirement . Mess with your thrift savings, and make you pay more for health care and gut collective bargaining. Trump people you really need to read because a mind is a terrible thing to waste
Trump. His policies have caused a increase in the prices we pay on a daily basis so we get a COLA to help compensate us for the increased prices we see on a daily basis. Are you proud of that?
Fake News…..Trump can not take anything away fron you…..only a vote of Congress can do it. typical third grade, IQ of 70 postal idiot comment!
Show me the money.
I want a bigger raise. Screw this 1% crap
anyone else notice the COLA’s are bigger under Trump. Obama took out fuel and food out of the calculation….oh boy oh boy are the Democrats out for the little guy! wake up sheeple, run, do not walk, off of the plantation!
THX APWU PROUD MEMBER DAYTON OHIO
RETIRED POSTAL SERVICE PEOPLE SHOULD GET THESE COLAS ON THEIR MONTHLY RETIREMENT! SO, MAKE IT HAPPEN, PLEASE! I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY WE DON’T GET THE COLAS? THAT IS NOT RIGHT, WE WORKED HARD FOR OUR RETIREMENT!!