National Association of Letter Carriers

Merged Branch 3825  

Updated: January 27, 2012

P. O. Box 1398 Rockville, Maryland 20849-1398

301-424-5960

e-mail: NALCbr3825 at aol dot com

 

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The Artificial Undertime supporting documents package

Pictures from the 2011 Branch picnic, July 31, 2011.  Thanks to Raj Babra.

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Contract Negotiations.....

January 20, USPS declines to extend contract talks .pdf  
The Resolution Process.pdf

Contract Negotiations Extended Until January 20, 2012

NALC contract talks extended.....New deadline set for Dec. 16, 2011

Letter carriers are in the midst of contract negotiations with the Postal Service. Our current five-year contract was set to expire last night at midnight. For the past week, every day, every night, up to the wee hours of the morning, negotiators for the NALC and the Postal Service were hard at work. And we will be back at the bargaining table very soon – last night we agreed to extend our talks until at least December 7, 2011.

These negotiations, and our bargaining process under federal law, will produce a contract. Everyone will still get their mail, every day, on time, from their friendly letter carrier. And that new contract will recognize and deal with the new realities of postal volume and finances.

We have put forward serious and innovative proposals designed specifically to produce billions of dollars in cost reductions for the Service. We have already started to do the hard work to reinvent this public service to preserve its core function in an efficient and economically responsible way.
           
For example, we are negotiating a new approach to health benefits that could save the Postal Service up to $20 billion over the next ten years if it were applied to all postal employees through a combination of legislation and agreements negotiated by other bargaining units and managerial groups. These savings would derive from the adoption of best practices on disease management and wellness care, improved purchasing power for drugs and other medical services, and the sensible integration of our members' health insurance plans with Medicare benefits, among other sources.

NALC's decades of experience in running one of the best rated health plans in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program have been brought to bear in our negotiations with postal management, and the two sides have engaged broadly on reducing health care costs. We will continue to advance that engagement in the weeks ahead and look forward to successfully negotiating an historic agreement.   Fred Rolando November 21, 2011, National Press Club

NALC contract talks extended
New deadline set for December 7, 2011

USPS, unions still negotiating over pay and benefits

Postal Service, unions extend negotiation deadline

Union Seeks Role in Postal Revamp

Postal Union Turns to Wall Street for Advice on Its Future

NALC Brings in the Big Guns

NALC President Fred Rolando's Statement to Open Negotiations  .pdf

What Postal Service can't win from labor unions it hopes to get from Congress

Postal Service Begins Labor Contract Negotiations With Two Unions

Walt Francis, an expert on federal health care systems who writes the annual Checkbook guide to health plans, blasted the Postal Service's plans as "nonsensical" and "absurd." He suspects the Postal Service's threat to pull out of FEHBP is a ploy to force Congress to relieve its retiree pre-funding problem.  "This proposal is not an indicator of anything except the desperate financial status of the USPS," Francis said in an Aug. 16 email. "Are they just proposing the unthinkable to get the otherwise unattainable [end to the pre-funding problem], or clueless?"  "The notion that the managers of the Postal Service have some ability to design and operate a health insurance program that will outperform the FEHBP isn't credible," Francis said. "The Postal Service managers' claim that the FEHBP doesn't use common private-sector best practices, such as chronic condition and disease management programs or health promotion incentives, is just bogus."

The Complete Article in the Federal Times

A “Workforce Optimization” paper acknowledges its “extraordinary request” to break its labor contracts. .PDF

In a white paper on health and retirement benefits, the USPS said it was imperative to rein in health benefit and pension costs, which are a third of its labor expenses.  .PDF

NALC Committee of Presidents Meeting April 15 & 16, 2012

Save the Post Office

Save America's Postal Service

Going Postal: A photo journal of post offices and places across the United States

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In The News........  

Postal Service Board of Governors to Meet Feb. 9

Chairman Darell Issa Says USPS is Committee’s Priority; USPS Should Cut 260,000 Employees

Six Day Delivery and H.R. 2309

Thrown Overboard: Publishers Feel Abandoned by the U.S. Postal Service

USPS Advises Mailers that In-Home-Delivery Dates will no Longer be the Criteria for Mail Delivery

APWU Warns Members:
Beware of Risks in USPS Campaign
For Voluntary Transfers to Letter Carrier

Postal Service agrees to 5-month moratorium on office closures

Use Technology to Overhaul USPS

As USPS Cuts Loom, Business Owners Brace Themselves

"They're privatizing the postal system piece by piece through outsourcing and downsizing, selling off assets, closing down post offices and driving business to private mail companies" says Steve Hutkins, a professor at New York University. "You can't just convince Congress and the country to privatize the entire system, so they're privatizing it through the back door."

USPS reaffirms plans to cut 28,000 jobs

Postal mismanagement leads to D.C. closings

U.S. Postal Service seeks to end next-day mail

Netflix will be Doomed by USPS Cuts

Magazines Gird for USPS Nixing Saturday Delivery

USPS To Slow Delivery of First-Class Mail

Postal Service Mulls eMailbox Option

U.S. Postal Service Hires Evercore for Restructuring Advice

A failure to deliver solutions to Postal Service’s problem

Amazon’s new locker delivery system now live in New York

Analysis: UPS, FedEx poised to gain from USPS pain

Darrell Issa Turns Against Postal Unions That Once Backed His Campaign

Lawmakers move GOP postal reform bill forward

Shock Doctrine at U.S. Postal Service: Is a Manufactured Crisis Behind Push Toward Privatization?