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The week-long event at the Hawaii Convention
Center will bring together carriers from all 50 states,
the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands
and Guam. The 300,000-member union, founded in 1889, represents
active and retired city letter carriers employed by the
U.S. Postal Service.
NALC President William H. Young will preside
over the convention and deliver the keynote address at the
opening session on Monday, July 19.
Among speakers scheduled to address convention
sessions are: U.S. Reps. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) and Danny
Davis (D-IL); Arturo Rodriguez, president of the United
Farm Workers union; Dale Holton, president of the National
Rural Letter Carriers Association; Deborah Bourque, national
president, Canadian Union of Postal Workers; Philip Bowyer,
Deputy General Secretary, Union Network International; Michael
J. Critelli, chairman and CEO, Pitney Bowes, Inc., and H.
Robert Wientzen, president and CEO, Direct Marketing Association.
Delegates will discuss issues critical
to the future of the U.S. Postal Service and its continuing
role in delivering mail throughout the United States, including
proposed postal reform legislation currently under consideration
in the U.S. Congress. They will also consider various resolutions
and proposed amendments to the NALC Constitution and elect
NALC delegates to the American Federation of Labor-Congress
of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).
Registration will be held Saturday, July
17 and Sunday, July 18. General sessions will begin Monday,
July 19 and continue daily from 10 a. m. to 3 p.m. through
July 23.
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