1/23/2020 In all offices, CCAs who have at least 30 months of relative standing on February 15th to be converted to career status NALC and USPS have settled a national-level grievance regarding non-compliance with the contractual caps on the employment of City Carrier Assistants (CCAs). This settlement (M-01906) provides that all city carrier assistants in […]
On Sept. 20, 2019, negotiations for a new collective-bargaining agreement between NALC and USPS came to an impasse. The current collective-bargaining agreement remains in force pending final resolution of the parties’ collective-bargaining dispute. The next step is a mandatory 60-day mediation period required by statute. The parties will use the mediation period to continue negotiations […]
Contract COLA: 3rd COLA Will Be $270 Annually The July 2017 Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W, 1967=100) was 710.766, an increase of 12.186 points over the 2016-2019 National Agreement’s July 2014 base index of 698.580. Each full 0.4 point increase above the base index equals a 1-cent-per-hour increase. As […]
7/28/17 –NALC – Today, the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC, denied the request of two NALC members for a preliminary injunction that would have deferred the counting of ballots on the proposed tentative 2016-2019 National Agreement between NALC and the U.S. Postal Service. Thomas Houff of Richmond, VA Branch 496 and David Noble of […]
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 […]
5/20/16 Following 90 days of bargaining over the terms of a new National Agreement—culminating in a week of intense negotiations—NALC and the U.S. Postal Service announced tonight that the bargaining period would be extended beyond the midnight expiration of the 2011-2016 contract on May 20. During the extended period of negotiations, the terms and conditions […]
5/16/16 The full negotiating teams of the National Association of Letter Carriers and the U.S. Postal Service convened this morning in a downtown Washington, DC, hotel to open a final week of collective bargaining prior to the expiration of the 2011-2016 National Agreement this Friday, May 20, at midnight. NALC’s team consists of the 28 […]
2/19/16 NALC President Fredric Rolando and USPS Postmaster General Megan Brennan met today at NALC Headquarters in Washington, DC, to formally open negotiations for a new collective-bargaining agreement. The present 2011-2016 agreement, covering more than 204,000 active city letter carriers employed by USPS, is set to expire at midnight on May 20. Here is President […]
Sept. 25, 2014 –The NALC and USPS have agreed to extend the ongoing Article 8 equitability test until December 31, 2014, in the twenty-two districts currently participating). The test was established by a June 3, 2013, agreement resulting from the National Article 8 Task Force.
NALC and USPS have entered into the Memorandum of Understanding Re: Article 12.1 – Probationary Period – Bidding, which allows full-time career city letter carriers who are serving a probationary period to bid for vacant duty assignments in accordance with Article 41.1 of the National Agreement. Re: Article 12.1 – Probationary Period The parties agree […]