WASHINGTON , DC,, May 21, 2016 — The United States Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) have agreed to extend contract negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement.
Although the contract with the NALC expired at midnight Friday, May 20, the Postal Service and the NALC have mutually decided to extend negotiations beyond the deadline.
The NALC represents approximately 210,000 city letter carriers nationwide.
The Postal Service and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, AFL-CIO (NPMHU) also have agreed to extend contract negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement.
Although the contract with the Mail Handlers union also expired at midnight Friday, May 20, the Postal Service and the NPMHU have mutually decided to extend negotiations beyond the deadline.
The NPMHU represents approximately 44,000 employees nationwide.
The clerk craft is already in arbitration!
Don’t you think that both parties are just waiting to see what Arbitrator Goldberg does with the APWU contract to see if they would be better off settling jointly or going to arbitration themselves?
Keep playing the game Fred. Go get us that 1%!
Why all the negativity about a routine extension of negotiation time? The shocking thing would have been if the parties couldn’t even agree to keep talking. This is good news that the negotiations are continuing. Good work, unions!
Strike!!!!….there is not enough room in prison to house 200k Of us!!
Thanks miss postmaster. .a former letter-carrier too!!….when was the last time you did a hard days work! ….
after they do their circle jerk dance for the sheeple, you will see smoke and mirrors and shadows on the wall for your 1%! oh don’t look over there at the mismgt bonus money and union mgt kickback scam. Uncle Joe Stalin was right about the useful idiots…..now go vote for a DemonKKKat…..they will save the lumpin proletariat! just look at all barry from honolulu did for you lol. this dump needs the Teamsters and a strike!
don’t sell us out rolando
Same strategy as last time that didn’t work, keep extending negotiations for months until management finally calls an impasse and it moves on to arbitration.