News & information

October 2013

The Postal Record, Vol. 126, No. 10

Cover story

• NALC’s Grassroots Activists: Be a part of the movement to save the Postal Service

News and features

• AFL-CIO Convention finds labor in need of new friends, new blood
• NALC and USPS agree to memorandum of understanding on filling residual vacancies
• NALC celebrates 50th anniversary of historic March on Washington
• Living wage efforts take aim at fast food, big-box retailers
• NALC’s Believe it of not! Extreme delivery
• Inside Headquarters: NALC’s Membership Department
• Proud to Serve
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

• President's Message

  A stronger labor movement = economic growth = a stronger USPS

• AFL-CIO Convention finds labor in need of new friends, new blood

  At its quadrennial convention in Los Angeles, the AFL-CIO sought new ways to boost organized labor’s relevance in a U.S. economy where only 6.6 percent of the private-sector workforce is enrolled in a union.

• NALC's grassroots activists

  Be a part of the movement to save the Postal Service

• Filling residual vacancies

  NALC and USPS agree to memorandum of understanding

• Living wage efforts take aim at fast food, big box retailers

  In cities across the nation, low-wage workers are walking out over pay that doesn’t pay their bills. Fast-food workers have stood in picket lines demanding that their voices be heard.

• NALC's Believe it or Not!

  Extreme Delivery

• Historic march on Washington

  NALC celebrates 50th anniversary

• Inside Headquarters

  NALC's Membership Department

• Proud to Serve

  Honoring heroic letter carriers.

• Vice President

  That's not fair

• Executive Vice President

  What does and does not work

• Secretary-Treasurer

  Convention 2014: Convention Call, amendments and resolution info

• Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

  Legacies

• Director of City Delivery

  New MOU Re: Residual Vacancies-City Letter Carrier Craft

• Contract Talk

  CCA uniform allowance rules

• Director of Safety and Health

  Tune in to each other on the workroom floor

• Director of Retired Members

  FERS annuity supplement

• Director of Life Insurance

  The philosophy behind insurance

• Director of Health Benefits

  Health Benefit Plan history

• MDA Coordinator

  Risk vs. rewards

• Compensation Department

  Possible health benefits refund problems

• Director of Education

  Are you a leader?

• Letter from the Editor

  Your work helps fall legislative fight