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LAS VEGAS, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Taxi drivers represented by the Industrial, Technical and Professional Employees Union (ITPEU)/OPEIU Local 4873 have won their sixty-day strike at Yellow Checker Star Transportation (YCS) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The new contract includes an increase in the drivers' share of the meter, reinstatement of eligibility for the four-day work week of 12 hours per day and 10-hour per day shifts, increases in annual bonuses and other benefits. In...
Donations Critical in This Difficult Economy; Effort Will Help Feed Needy Families in All 50 States WASHINGTON, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its 21(st) annual food drive to combat hunger on Saturday, May 11. Letter carriers will collect non-perishable food donations on that day as they deliver mail along their postal routes. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110406/DC78673LOGO) It is the...
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The pending August 1st "default" of the U.S. Postal Service is not primarily the result of a bad market or even bad operations, but of bad legislating by Congress. The only thing that will happen on Wednesday is that the Postal Service will not pay $5.6 billion into a fund for future retiree health benefits -- a fund that already has $45 billion, enough to pay for decades of future retiree health care. (Logo:...
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Postal Service could avoid closings, firings, and cutbacks if the Chair of the House Government Reform Committee would stop blocking a bipartisan bill sponsored by 229 members that gives the Post Office the same 20-30 year pension pre-pay funding requirements as other federal agencies, instead of a Bush-signed bill that requires a 75 year prepayment leaving the Post Office with massive debt, says Robert Weiner, former...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Saturday, workers at Valley City Linen ratified their first union contract ending their 15-month campaign for union representation at the commercial laundry by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 951. In May 2011, Valley City Linen workers elected union representation in an effort to improve their working conditions, authorizing UFCW 951 to represent them in contract negotiations with their employer....
LARGO, Fla., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 12 postal carriers around the country will collect non-perishable food from customers along their routes and deliver the food to local food banks. The National Association of Letter Carriers' (NALC) Stamp Out Hunger campaign - the country's largest one day food drive, will once again replenish food pantries throughout the United States. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120501/CL98787) To help alert the public to this...
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando on today's Senate vote on S. 1789: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110406/DC78673LOGO) "Voting for this bill without major changes is political and economic suicide; cutting more than 100,000 jobs when unemployment is sky-high makes no sense when there are good policy alternatives." "Forcing tens of millions of...
U.S. Postal Service and National Association of Letter Carriers Continue 20-Year Tradition WASHINGTON, April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On May 12, local communities across America will be asked to join the U.S. Postal Service and its letter carriers to combat one of this nation's growing problems -- hunger. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120420/DC91522 ) About 50 million Americans -- including 17 million children -- now live in families that lack...
National Association of Letter Carriers President Details Union's Concerns about Legislation in Letter to U.S. Senators WASHINGTON, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fredric V. Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), has formally called on the U.S. Senate to reject S. 1789 -- the 21st Century Postal Service Act -- because as currently drafted, it provides only short-term fixes. He said that while the measure "might provide resources...
GLEN BURNIE, Md., March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- PlanSmartChoice, an online suite of health plan selection tools, recently named their top ten health plans in the FEHB program. For the second consecutive year the APWU Health Plan's Consumer driven option was among the carriers recognized as a PlanSmartChoice Plus Award recipient. PlanSmartChoice was developed to give postal and federal employees a tool to help them choose the best health carrier for their needs. The award...
