No Fourth Cost-Of-Living-Adjustment For Postal Workers

February 21, 2009 by
Filed under: APWU, COLA, NALC, usps 

From NALC:

Fourth Contract COLA: -0-

There will be no fourth cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for letter carriers this period, under the terms of the 2006-2011 National Agreement. That’s because there was no increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) between July 2008 and January 2009, based on figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) February 20,

The next COLA—the fifth under the contract—will be based on any increase in CPI from January to July 2009. The last COLA was $1,497 in September 2008.

There are eight COLAs included in the 2006-2011 agreement.

From APWU:

In January, the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) rose to 612.719, still well below the July 2008 index of 644.303 (upon which our last COLA was based). After the final month of the six-month measuring period, the fifth COLA under the 2006 National Agreement and the Operating Services Agreement will be zero.

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  1. geo bush on Sat, 21st Feb 2009 5:08 pm

    2. Its my money……how dare you want to take it…

    my math is great, ain’t it?

  2. Old Dumbass on Sat, 21st Feb 2009 6:47 pm

    3. If there are no increases this time, why is the PO saying wage increases are driving losses this quarter? Lying bastards.

  3. joe joe on Sat, 21st Feb 2009 9:24 pm

    4. this should work for executives also but of course its not the same when you make sic (six) figures Potter and other a s s e s

  4. Tony on Tue, 24th Feb 2009 12:44 pm

    5. The problem is that we will not recieve anything for the next COLA either.

  5. Senator Widestance on Wed, 25th Feb 2009 5:41 am

    6. Who says?

  6. Hawg on Wed, 25th Feb 2009 11:36 am

    7. Congress gave Potter our last COLA, he does such a wonderful joke sitting in his office while the employees freeze to put up with Nazi Managers.

  7. jilgus on Thu, 26th Feb 2009 11:03 am

    8. Understanding the present economic situ we find ourselves in.It is a sobering fact that we are not only having to do more with less, but must try and do the same with less.It is emotionally draining and so depressing to find oneself in such a downward trend witth barely light at the end of the tunnel.

  8. jilgus on Thu, 26th Feb 2009 11:03 am

    9. Understanding the present economic situ we find ourselves in.It is a sobering fact that we are not only having to do more with less, but must try and do the same with less.It is emotionally draining and so depressing to find oneself in such a downward trend witth barely light at the end of the tunnel.

  9. Numbnuts on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 5:41 am

    10. Now I’m depressed.

  10. Confused on Sat, 28th Feb 2009 11:10 pm

    11. I hear my postmaster say she does less for more!! She says she does too much the way it is. She says she is going to get a headset like they use at Macdonalds so her neck doesn’t get kinked all the time. She spends the entire day on personal calls and gets pissed when a customer comes in and she has to say hold on, then goes back to her call and says yeh another idiot. Some customers come in just to listen to her phone conversations and comment, no wonder usps is in financial trouble!!

  11. take it on Mon, 2nd Mar 2009 4:33 pm

    12. seems to me it cost alot more for beer & marlboros now than it did a yr ago

  12. countryshoals on Wed, 4th Mar 2009 6:45 pm

    13. while we are out working our butts off our postmaster gets payed for sitting around with his feet on his desk while talking on the cell phone or does his excerises and wieght training in his office

  13. Sue on Tue, 10th Mar 2009 7:00 am

    14. I work at the general mail facility in North Reading. They took away our parking lot to build a new building. We now have to walk a quarter mile back and forth to our cars. The walk is one big wind tunnel. Wind from all directions. They could let us walk through the new building that they are not even using but consider it a security risk. This is just plain ignorant. Of course, the new building didn’t disrupt the supervisor parking lot. What goes around comes around.

  14. shaftedagain on Fri, 3rd Apr 2009 12:01 pm

    15. we need a regional C.O.L.A!!! WE ARENT GETTING ANY O.T IN THE NEW YORK METRO AREA AND THE COST OF LIVING IS ASTRONOMICAL!!!A REGIONAL C.O.L.A WOULD SAVE THE POSTAL SERVICE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!AT THE SAME TIME PUTTING THE MONEY WHERE IT BELONGS IN THE BIG MACINTOSH!!!

  15. shaftedagain on Fri, 3rd Apr 2009 12:10 pm

    16. I HAVE TO LAUGH WHEN PEOPLE SAY POSTMASTER POTTER MADE A LOT OF MONEY(800,000) BEING POSTMASTER/CEO!HE IS A CASUAL AMONGST CEOS!!THE BANKROBBER/CEO OF LEHMAN BROS.MADE (410,000,000)SO LETS LIGHTEN UP A LITTLE ON POSTMASTER POTTER.

  16. Pete on Tue, 7th Apr 2009 5:14 am

    17. top 200 company CEO’s just took an 88% cut in salary to just over an average of 2,400,000.00
    Potter is a deal……

  17. Cliff Claven on Sun, 17th May 2009 9:09 am

    18. They raise prices, just enough to be under the wire of inflation–but still takes a hit on your financial and house expenses!

    Look now, people aren’t using plastic as much (many haven’t a job + many got smart and quit), so I see interest ramping up the ladder do to this smart move by consumers!