5/10/16 NALC President Fredric V. Rolando’s statement on the U.S. Postal Service’s financial report for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2016, covering January, February and March. (Click here to jump below to a summary of press coverage.) The $576 million quarterly operating profit announced today by the Postal Service is positive news for an […]
The Postal Service has temporarily suspended most of its plans to close and/or consolidate up to 82 additional postal facilities as part of Phase II of its Network Rationalization plans. One part of the NPMHU’s opposition to this plan is the processing of a National-level grievance, claiming that the Postal Service has violated Handbook PO-408 […]
2/12/16 NALC has scored a significant victory in national arbitration involving the authority of regular panel arbitrators to provide a remedy when the Postal Service wrongfully causes a letter carrier to lose accrued annual leave. In an award issued Feb. 3, 2016, National Arbitrator Dennis Nolan has rejected the Postal Service’s attempt to set a […]
December 1, 2015 The national parties have reached agreement on a jointly-developed summary overview of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA). This document (M-01866) provides the mutual understanding of the national parties on issues related to leave covered by the FMLA. It fully replaces and updates the FMLA language agreed upon and […]
City letter carriers will receive a 1 percent general wage increase this month. The paycheck boost, which will take effect Nov. 14, is the third under the terms of the 2011-2016 National Agreement between NALC and the USPS finalized by arbitrator Shyam Das (the “Das award”). It is the last of three general wage increases […]
The U.S. Postal Service today released its financial report for Fiscal Year 2015, covering the period from Oct. 1, 2014, through Sept. 30, 2015. Here is a statement from National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando: The $1.2 billion in annual operating profits reported today by the Postal Service is terrific news that augurs […]
Update: According to a NALC Representative there is no agreement between NALC and USPS However, according to an article in the September edition of the Postal Record –NALC does support moving retirees to Medicare Parts A and B: Although work remains to be done on key issues, such as adjusting postage rates and service standards,there […]
From PostalReporter.com reader: A USPS letter soliciting a retired city carrier to be a Holiday City Carrier Assistant. At $16.07/hr their pay is slightly more than a regular CCA, which is $15.63/hr. Holiday CCAs are limited to working 28 days from December 5th to January 1st. Holiday city carrier assistants are subject to the following: […]
August 13, 2015 – On Monday, the U.S. Postal Service released its financial results for the fiscal third quarter of, and the first nine months of, 2015. So far, things are looking good for fiscal 2015. While the Postal Service posted a small operating loss of $197 million for the third quarter, on a year-to-date […]
NALC President Fredric Rolando statement on USPS quarterly report Today’s results show the impressive Postal Service financial turnaround continuing in full force. After three quarters, the operating profit for 2015 stands at $1.2 billion, compared to $1 billion for the first three quarters of 2014. The relatively small operating loss of $197 million for the […]