THREE LOCAL PRESIDENTS APPOINTED TO COMMITTEE ON THE FUTURE
National President John Hegarty recently made three appointments to the NPMHU’s Committee on the Future: June Harris, President of Local 306 (Illinois and Wisconsin), David Wilkin, President of Local 309 (representing portions of New York and Pennsylvania), and Woody Hendrickson, Local 332 President (Utah) will be joining the Committee.
“Postal employees and the services that we provide are under attack. It is imperative that we continue to challenge and oppose the threatened closures, consolidations, subcontracting efforts, harmful legislation and the degradation of service standards on all fronts now and into the future,” said Hegarty. June Harris, David Wilkin and Woody Hendrickson bring an array of experience to the table and are a welcome addition to the Committee. The Committee will next meet in January of 2015, and the NPMHU is confident that the addition of June, David and Woody will serve to greatly enhance the expertise and forward-thinking capabilities of the group into 2015 and beyond.
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DUES INCREASE TO BE IMPLEMENTED WITH NEGOTIATED WAGE INCREASE
The second of three guaranteed wage increases to be paid to all mail handlers under the 2011 National Agreement will be implemented effective November 15, 2014, and will be reflected in paychecks on December 5, 2014 (PP25-2014). The wage charts resulting from this increase are being printed in the Fall 2014 Mail Handler magazine, and also are available for review and download at the Wage Chart resource link on the NPMHU website at www.npmhu.org. As required by Article XIV, Section 3 of the National Constitution and Article VIII, Section 2 of the Uniform Local Union Constitution, mail handlers will see an automatic membership dues increase of one dollar ($1.00) per pay period, effective with this November 2014 negotiated wage increase. Of this amount, eighty cents ($.80) per pay period will be sent to the Local Union, and twenty cents ($.20) per pay period will be retained by the National Office in the form of increased per capita tax.
