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Commemorate strike's 40th: Learn about the dramatic March 17, 1970 walkout from those who were there, including NALC President Emeritus Vincent R. Sombrotto, Saturday, March 20, at 1 p.m. at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum's Discovery Center. Museum | YouTube | Bulletin |
| NALC endorses health care bill: The union’s 28-member Executive Council has unanimously endorsed a resolution to urge Congress to approve health care reform legislation and send it to President Obama for his signature. President Rolando called on all House members to support working families' interests when they vote on the bill this weekend. “The time for debate is over. The time for legislative courage is at hand,” Rolando said. Press release | e-Activist message |
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Potter says no need to cut Saturday service with funding fix: Confirming what the NALC has been saying for months, Postmaster General John Potter told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing March 18 that if the Postal Service is repaid $75 billion it has been overcharged for the Civil Service retirement fund, USPS’ financial problems would ease dramatically and there would be no need to eliminate Saturday mail delivery. “If that (recovering the $75 billion and applying it to future retiree health care) were to happen, we wouldn't have to go from six- to five-day delivery,” Potter said. Panel Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) seemed surprised and asked, “You're saying if the $75 billion is found, you wouldn't have to cut the frequency of service?” Potter replied, “Right.” “We’ll have to look into that,” the senator said. Watch the testimony here (beginning at time mark 49:30), and see the NALC fact sheets on retiree health care and the CSRS overcharge here. More |
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AFL-CIO holds Wall Street accountable: Wall Street took $700 billion in taxpayer bailouts and went back to business as usual. It's time Wall Street helped pay to create the 11 millions jobs we need. The AFL-CIO continues its week of actions to hold Wall Street accountable. AFL-CIO website |
Rolando advances union's stance on postal finances, six-day delivery: NALC President Rolando delivered a statement to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Federal Service and General Government in response to the Postal Service's seven-point "Envisioning America's Future Postal Service." Rolando forcefully presented the NALC's position-that Congress holds the keys to keeping the Service solvent by fixing the "unreasonable and unworkable" formula for pre-funding the retiree health benefits fund and by acting to preserve universal service with six-day delivery. Press release | Statement (PDF) |
| Holding on to six-day: NALC reacted quickly when PMG Potter released USPS' "action plan,” making sure everyone knows how disastrous ending
Saturday mail delivery would be.
Many of the plan's ideas are ones NALC embraces.
“Unfortunately, it also endorses
eliminating Saturday delivery, which we
believe is unnecessary and counterproductive,” said NALC President Rolando. Bulletin | Postal Record | Press release |
OIG: $75 billion over-charge for pension liabilities: USPS' Office of Inspector General strengthens the NALC's case that OPM badly miscalculated—by $75 billion—the postal surplus in the Civil Service Retirement Fund. More | Report | Bulletin |
| Three steps to ease USPS financial burden: Congress can take three steps to put the Postal Service back in the black. A new NALC fact sheet explains how. More |
| Reaction to editorials: Rolando recently responded to New York Times and Washington Post editorials endorsing Potter’s call for elimination
of six-day delivery and other aspects of USPS' plan. Although the editorials were slightly different in scope, Rolando
addressed the key points in both responses. Bulletin |
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Food Drive update: Nearly 1,300 NALC branches have signed up for the 18th annual NALC National Food Drive on
Saturday, May 8—the largest one-day drive in the nation, which helps local food banks, pantries and
shelters across America “Stamp Out Hunger.” More | Bulletin |
| Contract training materials: |
Material Reference System (MRS) available online: This prime resource for NBAs, RAAs, branch officers and shop stewards in their duties enforcing the National Agreement can be found here. |
| 2009 JCAM: NALC and USPS have agreed to publish the 2009 Joint Contract Administration Manual. Get it online here. |
| Change your address? Make sure your union can stay in touch with you. Call or write the Membership Department if your address changes. |
| Contract-related or work rule question? Carriers who need information and assistance should contact the national business agent in their region. Locate your NBA here. |
| COR Powerpoint: Joint NALC/USPS presentation and notes on Carrier Optimal Routing (COR) in the Modified Interim Alternate Route Adjustment Process (MIARAP) is available here. |
The latest Route Inspection Kit is available here. A Route Inspection Kit for Windows Vista is available here. |
| The branch merger application is available here. |
| Route protection materials online are available here. |
| Online form for bylaw changes is available here. |
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