NALC President Fredric Rolando issued this statement after the NALC Executive Council unanimously recommended approval of the tentative settlement: “I’d like to thank all the officers and staff-as well as our counterparts in postal management-who worked so hard to reach this tentative National Agreement. It also keeps in place the existing protections against subcontracting and layoffs.
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19, 2022, a new top step (Step P) (which is $444 annually greater than Step O) will be added to the career letter carrier pay scales. The agreement also provides for the automatic conversion of city carrier assistants (CCAs) to career status no later than after 24 months of relative standing, providing full fringe benefits to non-career carriers.
The tentative agreement provides four annual general wage increases and seven cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs). “I want to thank the many officers, witnesses, staff, attorneys, specialists and the members for their many efforts in this long battle that helped bring it to a strong conclusion.” “We also succeeded in stopping management’s deeply concessionary demands to end no-lay protections, increase percentages of non-career employees and create a new lower third tier of career employees,” shared Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman. “But we have achieved a number of our major goals including retroactive annual pay raises, maintaining of full (and retroactive) COLA, narrowing the gap between the lower and higher career pay scales, the career conversions of thousands of PSEs and maintaining tremendous job security. “No interest arbitration is ever totally in favor of one side or the other,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. Experts and Officers also testified for the union, and a team of economists presented a strong case and rebuked management’s attempts for union concessions. The contract was 20 months in the making, with local union input, negotiations, mediation, a strong contract campaign and a well-prepared and presented arbitration case. Dozens testified about their work. With the Nolan proceeding suspended, Neutral Arbitrator and Interest Arbitration Panel Chair Stephen Goldberg issued his final decision on the terms of the new union contract. The agreement came after months of multiple bargaining sessions, with a three-member panel chaired by Arbitrator Dennis Nolan via online video call attempting resolution, but ultimately ending in temporary suspension until a ratification vote takes place. Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers came to a provisional understanding on a 44-month national labor agreement. A major new union contract that covers 200,000 postal workers represented by the APWU is effective now. The U.S.
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