Postal workers and their backers rallied Monday to protest what they say is a White House effort to take the U.S. Postal Service private. President Trump says the service needs to be restructured to prevent a bailout funded by taxpayers In May, President Trump signed an executive order creating a task force to evaluate the […]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2018 — Letter carriers who rescued people from raging house fires, saved numerous Houston-area residents from Hurricane Harvey’s raging flood waters and cornered a burglar who had terrified a young girl, are among those to be honored Sept. 26. Jason Moss of Tampa, FL, and John Sylvain, an Army veteran from Fort […]
9/20/18 Today, a bipartisan group of senators led by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced a Senate Resolution (S. Res. 633) calling on Congress to take all appropriate measures to ensure that the Postal Service remain an independent agency of the federal government and not be subject to privatization. The introduction of this bipartisan resolution follows […]
8/28/18 On Saturday, a federal judge invalidated key provisions in three executive orders the Trump administration issued in May, which had made it easier for agencies to fire federal workers and placed strict limits on union activities. (The orders did not apply to the Postal Service and its unions.) In her ruling, Judge Ketanji Brown […]
Fifth COLA set at $645 The fifth contract COLA is finalized today at $645 annually with the release of the July 2018 CPI-W. The sixth COLA will be finalized with the release of the January 2019 CPI-W in February 2019. For more, click here.
8/10/2018 NALC President Fredric Rolando’s statement on the release of the U.S. Postal Service’s financial statement for the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2018, covering the months of April, May and June of 2018: The Postal Service’s quarterly financial report shows the Postal Service’s underlying business strength while also indicating the need to address external […]
In all offices, CCAs who have at least 30 months of relative standing on 9/1 to be converted to career status NALC and USPS have settled a national level grievance regarding CCAs hired over the contractual caps. This settlement (M-01892) provides that all city carrier assistants in all size offices with 30 months of relative […]
This settlement (M-01893) lifts the hold in place instituted by USPS. The carriers affected by the hold in place will receive their step increases as scheduled prior to being held. These carriers will receive any retroactive pay owed back to the time they should have received their step increase(s). After the November 24, 2018 pay […]
7/16/2018 Today, a group of 10 bipartisan representatives introduced a House Resolution (H. Res. 993) calling on Congress to take all appropriate measures to ensure that the Postal Service remain an independent agency of the federal government and not be subject to privatization. The bipartisan resolution was introduced by Reps. Rodney Davis (R-IL) and Stephen […]
6/27/2018 In a narrow 5-4 decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court once again sided with corporate special interests and against America’s working families. In a case called Janus vs. AFSCME, the Court ruled that public sector unions may no longer assess so-called agency fees, the payment required of non-union members to cover the cost of collective-bargaining […]