The members of the National Association of Transporters of Letters reject a provisional employment contract that its leaders have concluded with the postal service.
A total of 63,680 members of the NALC voted against the line agreement for the 2023-2026 and 26,304 contract voted in favor.
The president of the NALC, Brian Renfroe, said Nalc in a statement on Friday that Nalc had informed the management of postal services of the vote.
“In a democratic vote, the will of the members of the NALC was clearly indicated – the treating agreement which represented the best offer that the postal service put on the table is not good enough for the transporters of the letters of the American city. We have earned more and we deserve more, ”said Renfroe.
NALC and USPS will soon return to the negotiating table to resume negotiations and will have 15 days to conclude a new contract agreement.
If the union and the agency cannot reach a new agreement, a third -party arbiter will reach a final compromise between the two parties.
Under the provision agreement, carriers would have retroactive salary increases of 1.3% for November 2023 and November 2024, and would receive another salary increase of 1.3% in November 2025. Payment, and would receive Additional collars every March and September for the duration of the contract.
Given that NALC provided details on the provision agreement last October, letters carriers, in hundreds of publications on social networks, expressed their frustrations about the agreement and organized colleagues to vote against.
Several groups of basic letters carriers have said that annual wage increases of 1.3% and half -yearly cost of living (Colas) described in the provisional did not correspond to the hours and requests for work more and more painful.
Build an Nalc Fighting, a coalition of letters transporters defending a more inclusive collective negotiation process for basic employees, requests a starting salary of $ 30 per hour, the end of compulsory overtime and complete collapse for all members of the negotiation of the members.
Mike Caref, NALC National Commercial Agent representing the transporters of letters in Illinois, urged the members to vote not on the provisional agreement and to put pressure for a better deal by arbitration. In addition to sitting on the NALC Executive Council, Caref arises to replace Renfroe as president of the Union.
“The lower quality provisional agreement has been widely rejected by the rank, provided that the transporters of American letters have enough and that we are solidly in the fight,” Caref said in a statement on Friday.
Under the union’s tent agreement, career carriers would earn around $ 25 to $ 40 an hour, depending on their seniority level. The assistants of non -career city carriers would receive a starting salary closer to $ 20 per hour.
The law on postal reorganization of 1970 obliges USPs to fix remuneration and benefits at “comparable work levels in the private sector of the economy”.
Renfroe told members a recent zoom call last fall that UPS is an “obvious” comparison of the private sector for wages and benefits.
USPS, he added, offers a set of more competitive advantages. But in terms of wages, letters transporters at the bottom of the remuneration scale are paid around 80 to 82% of the wages of an employee equivalent to UPS.
At the other end of the remuneration scale, more transporters of senior letters exceed around 87 to 88% of the wages of an equivalent UPS employee.
Nalc, added Renfroe, generally obtains positive results during arbitration when the USPS is in better financial health, but does not see such gains when the agency is in good financial health. The USPS experienced a net loss of $ 9.5 billion during the year 2024.
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