Letter Carriers Open Negotiations

by Mike Hall, Aug 28, 2006

Negotiations on a new contract for the nearly 225,000 men and women who deliver your mail got under way when the leaders of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and the U.S Postal Service (USPS) opened talks today in Washington D.C.

NALC President William Young says he hopes improved labor relations and the contributions of Letter Carriers in transforming the Postal Service’s deficit of $11.3 billion in 2001 into an $8.4 billion profit during the past three years will result in an agreement

…that is fair to the nation’s letter carriers, fair to postal management and fair to the American people. We are ready to get to work on building a better workplace for our members and finding mutually acceptable solutions to matters affecting the city carrier workforce through a new national agreement.

The current contract, negotiated in 2001, expires Nov. 20. Young says of that agreement:

Negotiated in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, and the devastating anthrax attacks that followed, the now-expiring contract solidified a major improvement in the quality of labor relations between the NALC and the USPS. The long period of stability it provided allowed the parties to complete a revolution in the way we deal with workplace tensions.

For more information and updates on the negotiations, visit www.nalc.org.

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