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Fredric Rolando, New Letter Carriers President |
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Fredric Rolando, a former letter carrier in South Miami, Fla., took office July 3 as the new president of the Letter Carriers (NALC). He succeeds William Young, who announced his retirement last month.
Rolando has been NALC executive vice president since 2006. His first union post was shop steward at South Miami’s NALC Branch 1071, and he later became president of Sarasota Branch 2148. He was also director of education for the Florida State Association of Letter Carriers and served as a regional officer and national director of city delivery.
Young served six and a half years as NALC president after beginning his letter carrier career in San Luis Obispo, Calif., where he was elected shop steward in 1969. He held several regional and national positions before being elected NALC president in 2002.
In a farewell message in the July issue of the NALC magazine Postal Record, Young writes:
Although I am clearly biased, letter carriers represent what is best about America—our diversity, our commitment to hard work and community service, and our dedication to serving America.
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It is my understanding, from conversations with local postal workers, that the postal service management is attacking the postal union more and more agressively in the runup to the elimination of Saturday delivery. Obviously what is needed is leadership preparing the membership to confront the government and demand more hires to cut overtime hours and increase service creating more jobs. That would mean a break from the bosses parties and a joint effort with the other postal unions to fight for their jobs and the American people and their needs. If Rolando and his crowd are not prepared to do that then the postal union members face more cuts in jobs and benefits and increased work load.