From the National Postal Mail Handlers Union:
Effective on September 6, 2014, all career Mail Handler craft employees are scheduled to receive both the second and fourth of seven possible cost-of-living (COLA) adjustments as outlined in Articles 9.3 and 9.7 of the 2011 National Agreement. These two COLA increases are based on:
1) the upward change in the relevant Consumer Price Index (CPI) Base following release of the July 2013 Index (this amount totaled $540, and as prescribed in the Fishgold Arbitration Award, the implementation of this COLA increase was delayed by one year); and
2) the upward change in that Index Base following release of the July 2014 Index (this amount totaled $687, but was not subject to a deferral period). Taken together, these two COLA adjustments resulted in an annual increase of $1,227 for all Steps in Table 1 and for Step P of Table 2.
The remaining Steps in Table 2 have received the proportional COLA increase percentages as outlined in Article 9.7 of the National Agreement.
Ya the APWU got $686 and all we got was $1227
Are the two moronic comments posted above mine serious? Are you two dimwits kidding me? When it comes down to it, does it really matter how much clerks get paid as opposed to what us mailhandlers got “screwed out of” or do we really need to “catch up with the APWU”? Please don’t be all pissy if that clerk makes 20 cents an hour than you do,as I will bet it does not effect your quality of life.
Arbitrator Fishy screwed us and we should not be making less than clerks,but clerks hired after their contract was effective will be on a permanent second tier and not catch up to their senior co-workers,thanks to their former president,Goofy Guffey.
Excellent,but we still need to catch up with the APWU.