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. Continue reading From the National Association of Letter Carriers: On July 19, the House Budget Committee released and adopted its Fiscal Year 2018 budget resolution, and it also published a non-binding policy statement. Drawing inspiration from the White House budget, proposed in May, and from a 2010 presidential commission on deficit reduction, the two documents train their sights on postal and federal employee benefits and target the U.S. Postal Service for massive cuts. Continue reading From the National Association of Letter Carriers: On May 23, the White House released its Fiscal Year 2018 budget proposal as a follow up to the “skinny budget” released in March. Continue reading From the National Association of Letter Carriers: On May 10, the U.S. Postal Service released a report on its financial performance for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2017, covering January, February and March of 2017. Here is National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando’s statement about this report: Continue reading HAVERTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) — They work hard to deliver the mail on time year round and a group of letter carriers reached quite the milestone. Continue reading From the National Association of Letter Carriers: The Postal Regulatory Commission’s (PRC) required 10-year review of the way the U.S. Postal Service sets its prices for postage and postal products is underway, with NALC making an official submission to the agency before the public comment window closed on March 20. Chief among NALC’s recommendations is that the PRC should eliminate the price cap on so-called “market dominant” products such as First Class Mail. The cap has failed to provide the means to achieve the most important objective of the 2006 Postal Accountability and Financial Act (PAEA): financial stability for USPS. Continue reading A recent article (theguardian.com, 1 February) made the interesting proposal that the United States Postal Service help distribute food to America’s hungry, but in the initial version the author described the postal service as in decline. In fact, the evidence suggests the opposite. Continue reading As a result of the 2016 election, President Donald Trump has the authority to appoint more than 3,000 officials to lead the various departments and agencies of the federal government. Few agencies are more important than the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a unit of the White House charged with developing the president’s annual budget proposal. Letter carriers’ standard of living depends on health security and retirement security, and those in turn depend on budget proposals governing the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS), the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Federal Employees Health Benefit (FEHB) program. Continue reading Congress returned to business in January to a transformed capitol city. We have a new president and one-party control of the federal government. Fortunately, postal reform has strong bipartisan support and our goals have not changed. Our strategy, of course, will have to change to reflect the new landscape. Continue reading The National Association of Letter Carriers told members yesterday that it was in discussions with postal management over what effect, if any, the hiring freeze ordered by Donald Trump would have on letter carriers. In a message sent via the NALC member smartphone app, the union said that while the parties were still unsure of the possible impacts, the NALC is confident that the order would not prevent contractually required CCA conversions, based on a line in the order stating that it does not abrogate any existing collective bargaining agreements in effect on January 22. The USPS and its unions have yet to make any public statements on the freeze.
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Court refuses to block count of NALC contract ratification ballots
NALC: House committee spending blueprint targets USPS for “massive cuts”
NALC reacts to Trump budget proposal
NALC statement on USPS quarterly financial report
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NALC submits comments in PRC’s rate-setting review
The United States Postal Service isn’t ‘in decline’ – far from it
NALC opposes Mulvaney as OMB director
NALC postal reform update: “A changed political landscape requires a new strategy”
NALC tells members Trump freeze shouldn’t affect CCA conversions
