5/23/17 – Per Article 16 of the NALC Constitution, ratification shall be a mail referendum vote and the ballot shall be mailed only to regular members of the NALC as defined in Article 2, Section 1 (a), excluding non-letter carrier regular members as shown by the records of the national secretary-treasurer as of 90 days prior to the date that the proposed agreement is reached—which was May 12. Consistent with Article 2, Section 1 (a) of the NALC Constitution, retirees and Office of Workers’ Compensation Program (OWCP) departees shall have no voice or vote in any matter pertaining to the ratification of a national working agreement.
NALC President Fredric V. Rolando has appointed the Ballot Committee for the purpose of monitoring and observing the dispatch, receipt and tabulation of the ratification ballot for the tentative National Agreement reached between NALC and the U.S. Postal Service. The Ballot Committee is made up of 15 NALC members from branches in no fewer than 15 states. The members of the committee are:
- Region 1: Barbara Stickler, Garden Grove, CA Branch 1100
- Region 2: Phillip Rodriquez, Salt Lake City Branch 111
- Region 3: Mack Julion, Chicago Branch 11
- Region 4: Adam Fung, Aurora, CO Branch 5996
- Region 5: Rod Holub, Manhattan, KS Branch 1018
- Region 6: Bobbi Green, Royal Oak, MI Branch 3126
- Region 7: Caitlin Hill, Minneapolis Branch 9
- Region 8: Antonia Shields, Birmingham, AL Branch 530
- Region 9: Anthony Ali, Central Florida Branch 1091
- Region 10: Vanessa Sanchez, San Antonio, TX Branch 421
- Region 11: John Oross, Dayton, OH Branch 182
- Region 12: Eryka Tolliver, Pittsburgh Branch 84
- Region 13: Delano Wilson, Bowie, MD Branch 2611
- Region 14: Christopher Henwood, Rutland, VT Branch 495
- Region 15: Joe De Rossi, Jamaica, NY Branch 562
The Ballot Committee will arrive in Washington, DC, on June 19 to monitor and observe the mailing of the ballots.
Per the NALC Constitution, voting will be to either accept or reject the tentative agreement. Instructions will be included in the ballot mailing, as well as a copy of the complete text of the tentative agreement. Ballots will be due back on a specified date, likely in late July.
So that the tentative National Agreement can be fully discussed with branch and state leaders prior to the ratification voting, the 2017 National Conference—better known as a “rap session”—will be held June 14-15 at Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City, NJ. National rap sessions for state and branch presidents/designees are authorized in non-convention years by the NALC Constitution under Article 3, Section 4 (b).
The rap session will be used to educate branch leaders about the proposed contract. It’s hoped that this will give all NALC members the opportunity to attend a branch meeting following the rap session to learn about the tentative agreement and to get questions answered prior to submitting ratification ballots.
The rap session itself will be held on the morning of Wednesday, June 14. Workshops will be conducted on Wednesday afternoon and repeated in the morning on Thursday, June 15. There will be two three-hour workshops held simultaneously on Wednesday afternoon, each covering various topics of interest and importance to branch and state leaders. Those same workshops will be repeated on Thursday morning so all attending the rap session will have a chance to hear all of the information covered.
Workshop registration will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 13, with a reception in the evening. Additional registration will take place on the morning of June 14 prior to the rap session. The workshops on Thursday, June 15 will conclude by noon.
A limited number of rooms have been set aside for attendees at the Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City & Waterfront Conference Center. Click here for the link to hotel and travel information.
Additional information on exact times and locations of all events to be held at Harrah’s Resort will be provided in the near future.
source: NALC
it is time you marry paper boy’s to grow a pair of balls……the spineless clerks got rid of Cliff Guffy and Mike Morris (Pres & Vice)after they screwed them over………you now have a chance to give the middle finger to Rolando. all a NO VOTE means is they have to go back and do it again….so it goes to an ARB………..these 1% yearly raise’s and COLA’s that track a rigged low CPI have to go. American Airline Dispatchers got a 40% increase to 140K a year. plumbers, carpenters, electricians, nurses, cops, iron workers, jail guards, sanitation……..all get around 3%. if you settle for a crummy 1% while Rolando makes 250K than it is on you. compared to Vince Sombrotto……Rolando is just a punk who needs to get his ass kicked to the curb. have some self-respect and vote this s@@t sandwich down. do you really think the 110,000 Postal Circus Mismanagers get a 1% raise a year…..if you do then you are a fool!
Nothing will change until we stand up and vote NO. Get the word out to your members. Or actually just get out of the union. Maybe that might wake up the union brass. Probably not, but maybe. The union officials, including Fred, should get the same thing we get in the contracts. Anyone really think they do? VOTE NO!!
Other fed employees are given 3.2% raise in 2018 by lawmakers. We fought 15 months for less than half of that!!! Time to get out of Union if this I all they can do for us
Vote NO on this piece of shit contract! If this garbage contract gets ratified either the majority of letter carriers are the biggest bunch of morons in history or the voting system of the sorry corrupt NALC is rigged. I would like to believe it is rigged. But we will see
Having COLAs that do not keep up with health care premiums is wrong. We really needed some much stronger language that guaranteed our retirement packages, protected the annuity supplemental that would not be subject to reform legislation, and a higher raise for the much harder work load and overburdened routes management refuses to adjust or hire sufficient help.
The CCA program needs total elimination. It has only made service sloppy, encouraged some of the worst behavior I’ve ever seen in letter carriers, and thanks to management’s blind stewardship and obsession with playing numbers games that are geared for their bonuses, which they did not earn nor do they deserve, no emphasis is placed on proper forwarding or returning of undeliverable mail. Right up to my retirement at the first of this year, I would commonly come back from a few days off or vacation when a CCA was on it, and the mail that came in while I was gone was not forwarded, they didn’t know what to do with mail that was returned out on the street, some being there a couple years and should have learned through osmosis if nothing else, but ran like hell and usually carried swings every day. Management did not and does not give a shit about accurate mail delivery, nor does it care about timeliness or professionalism unless they take the irate complaint. It’s run, run, run, and the NALC should have been on top of this.
The contract will be ratified, make no mistake. All it takes is support from the larger branches who get all the attention while small branches are regarded as pains in the ass because they don’t generate much dough or are in states that have no influence in voting results. The NALC is weak, and needs some real leadership. We need some real guts in D.C. and if the current executive officers and NBA’s can’t represent us any better, then we need to get people who will.
Yes the CCA program needs to go, just because they are cheap labor, management keeps all of them, now grant it a lot of them are very good, but there are some that think that they are owed something. Down here in south Florida, there are a lot of driving routes or cluster box routes, that’s all they want to do, the first time they hear they have to walk, they start feeling sick, and tells management if they have to go walk they will go home sick, I say not only send them home, but keep those lazy SOB”S home, we don’t need workers like that. Also in my opinion, all carriers should start in walking offices first, if those offices are available. If the new carriers can make it walking there is a good chance they will be good. When the senior carriers are gone, I’m just praying the newbies will pick up the pace, or the USPS will be in big big trouble
There is no way you can justify this contract….the response that “you could have better?”…is ridiculous…all this wait,all this hush-hush…..and we got the same ad the clerks?….rolando did a horrible job….ive been a carrier for over 30 years….we had the leverage this time(which is rare)…and it was blown
Let it go to arbitration!!!! Did nalc in negotiations ever use arguments that carriers brought in 100’s million dollars through customer connect. We have alot more responsibility and accountability parcel pkgs making job much harder. If this gets ratified your telling nalc execs your happy with peanuts for a raise future negotiations that’s all they will bargain for! Make these highly paid union members to finally fight for it’s members. We deserve better than union constantly selling us out to mgt
NO This contract amounts to No raise If you read that our percentage of healthcare goes up it nullifies any raise in pay. We Letter Carriers have worked harder then ever and carry bigger loads (parcels) then ever before. USPS is making lots of money on our backs, managers are back to getting big PFP bonuses. NO NO NO This is a joke Fred, right?
I think I hear Fred laughing for some reason
I know many carriers are complaining that the contract stinks. Well I an quite sure you could have done better. With President Donald Dump cutting retirement benefits, and cutting many jobs in government agencies, one is lucky to get anything. And the carriers that voted for their leader, I only hope that you enjoy the cuts to your retirement. Remember you asked for it! At least the rich will have more money to hoard, the wall will make America great again, and more military toys to play with.
Vote NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Hope it’s big fat NOOOOOOOOO!!