(Federal Computer Week, 9/2/03)

Mail Handlers Cost-of-living adjustment

Operating Services [pdf]

Note: (Note: The National Agreement specifies that the COLA is effective the second full pay period after the release of the January 2006 index. This web page and the 2006 pay period calendar in the National Agreement previously indicated that the COLA would be effective March 4, 2006 provided the January CPI was released by Feb. 17, 2006. As it turns out, the release occurred on February 22, and the second full pay period following February 22 is PP-07 starting March 18.)

Effective with this COLA, employees covered by the 2000 National Agreement and the 2000 Operating Services Agreement will have received the following cost-of-living adjustments totaling $3,078: $457 (March 18, 2006); $728 (Sept. 3, 2005); $208 (March 19, 2005); $624 (Sept. 4, 2004); $208 (March 6, 2004); $291 (Sept. 6, 2003); $250 (March 8, 2003); and $312 (Sept. 7, 2002).

For FECA employees: (Feb. 22, 2006) - The percentage increase in the December CPI-W index from year to year determines the FECA COLA increase. After the first month of the adjustment period for the 2007 COLA, the index rose 0.8%. The 2006 COLA will be 3.5% and will be reflected in the March 2006 benefit checks.

Penalty Overtime Exclusion 2005
As referenced in Article 8, Sections 4 and 5, of the USPS-NALC and USPS-APWU national agreements, the December period (during which penalty overtime regulations are not applicable) consists of 4 consecutive weeks. This year, the December period begins Pay Period 25-05, Week 2 (December 3, 2005), and ends Pay Period 01-06, Week 1 (December 30, 2005).

NALC November 26, 2005 Wage Increase

Mail Handlers November 26, 2005 Wage Increase -The last of six general wage increases to be paid to all mail handlers under the 2000 National Agreement, as extended, is 1.3%, and will be implemented effective November 26, 2005.

APWU: Two Raises Take Effect in March 2006
APWU-represented workers will receive two raises in March — a cost-of-living adjustment and a 1.6 percent salary increase. The cost-of-living (COLA) raise will take effect in the second full pay period after the release of the January Consumer Price Index; the 1.6 percent increase will become effective March 18. Both raises will be based on the wages as of Sept. 03, 2005.

Rural Carrier Guarantee Period
Postal Service managers must effectively manage rural carriers who work under the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) section 7(b)(2). These carriers are paid overtime for all hours actually worked in excess of 2,080, up to 2,240, within the 52-consecutive-week guarantee period.

If a carrier works more than 2,240 hours within the guarantee period, the agreement under FLSA, section 7(b)(2), is considered void, and the carrier must be compensated for all hours worked during the guarantee period in accordance with FLSA, section 7(a). It is important that we make every effort to minimize the number of hours carriers work over 2,080 and strictly monitor these carriers to ensure that no carrier works in excess of 2,240 actual work hours.

Last year's guarantee period was from Saturday, October 30, 2004, through Friday, October 28, 2005. The guarantee period for this year runs from Saturday, October 29, 2005, through Friday, October 27, 2006.

Letter Carriers Cost-of-living adjustment
(08/22/05) All letter carriers will receive a contractual cost-of-living adjustment of 34 cents an hour, $27.20 per pay period and $707 annually effective the pay period beginning September 3, 2005 (pay date September 23, 2005). The $707 COLA is the sixth of eight regular COLAs provided by the 2001-2006 National Agreement between NALC and the USPS

(08/22/05) The COLA will be $728. The adjustment will take effect Sept. 3. The adjustment amounts to a 35 cents per hour increase, which equals $28 per pay period. The COLA increase will be reflected in Sept. 23, 2005 , paychecks (Pay Period 19-2005)

Mail Handlers (RSC M) Schedule

APWU Represented Employees to Receive Biggest COLA Raise in 25 Years
(08/16/05) The eighth Cost-Of-Living Adjustment under the extended 2000 National Agreement will be $728 per year, which works out to $28.00 per pay period or 35-cents-per-hour. The eighth COLA will take effect Sept. 3, 2005 (pay period 19-2005, pay date Sept. 23, 2005

Operating Services [pdf

Latest APWU Pay Scales (effective March 19, 2005)

National Agreement will give employees an annual raise of $208. The adjustment amounts to a 10 cents per hour increase, which works out to $8 per pay period. The seventh COLA will take effect March 19, 2005 (pay period 7-2005, pay date April 8, 2005).

General Pay Increase Takes Effect Nov. 27

APWU, NALC and Mail Handlers

APWU -represented workers on Nov. 27 will receive a 1.3 percent increase in their annual salaries. The increase will be based on wages as of Sept. 13, 2003. This is the second increase under the 2002 contract extension that is based on the 2003 salary level. All previous pay increases under the National Agreement had a “base-salary date” of Sept. 9, 2000.

Effective with Pay Period 26-04, this pay hike will be reflected in paychecks issued Dec. 10 (correction Dec. 17th) . Also effective in that pay period will be a dues increase in compliance with Article 16, Section 2, of the APWU National Constitution and Bylaws.

Based on the 1.3 percent salary increase, the raise in salary means an automatic dues increase of 60 cents per member per pay period for career employees, and 41 cents per member per pay period for transitional employees.

Thirty cents of the 60-cent increase goes to the career employees’ locals, 16 cents goes to the national union’s general fund, and 14 cents goes to the union’s private-sector organizing fund. The new National Per Capita Tax is $7.78 per pay period from each career employee’s paycheck, which includes $7.36 per capita for the general fund and 42 cents for the organizing fund.

Of the 41-cent increase coming from transitional employees, 20 cents will go to their locals, 11 cents will go to the National Per Capita fund, and 10 cents will go to the union’s organizing fund. A transitional employee’s dues deduction each paycheck will be $5.93: $5.63 retained at the national level and 30 cents going to the organizing fund.

Latest APWU Pay Scales (effective November 27, 2004)

see pay charts (current chart not posted as yet)

1.3% ADDED TO Mail Handler BASE WAGES

The fifth of six general wage increases to be paid to all mail handlers under the 2000 National Agreement, as extended, is 1.3%, and will be implemented effective November 27, 2004. pay charts

1.3% ADDED TO NALC BASE WAGES

Administrative Leave and Night Shift Differential

Effective October 14, 2004, Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM) 434.221, Eligibility for Night Differential, and Exhibit 434.2, Night Differential Pay Eligibility Table, are revised to show that the Postal ServiceTM pays night shift differential to eligible bargaining unit employees who receive administrative leave. This change was made pursuant to the national arbitration award by Philip W. Parkinson, dated December 8, 2000, case number J90M-1J-C-95047374. Night shift differential is paid to eligible employees for all work and paid training or travel time performed between 6:00P.M. and 6:00A.M. It is paid in addition to premiums that the eligible employee might otherwise be entitled to receive, and is not paid due only to early clocking in or late clocking out. Under no circumstance can the total night shift differential hours exceed the total hours for the tour. Employees regularly assigned to a night tour of duty receive night shift differential if they are rescheduled to participate in training, if they are on court leave or paid military leave, and if they are in continuation of pay (COP) status or are rescheduled to daytime work in lieu of placement into COP status. Bargaining unit employees may also receive night shift differential on administrative leave hours if they are regularly assigned to a night tour of duty. (source: Postal Bulletin)

Latest APWU Pay Scales (effective Sept. 4, 2004)