Postal Service to Begin Contract Negotiations With Its Four Largest Unions

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Postal Service to Begin Contract Negotiations With Its Four Largest Unions

    First Time New Contracts Negotiated Separately With All Four Unions
                               Simultaneously

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Postal Service is about to
begin contract negotiations with its four largest unions. Current contracts
with the National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO (NALC), American
Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO (APWU), National Rural Letter Carriers'
Association (NRLCA), and National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) all
expire at Midnight Nov. 20, 2006. This is the first time the Postal Service
has separately negotiated new contracts with all these unions at the same
time.
    The following schedule has been set for negotiation opening sessions:
    *  Aug. 21 -- NPMHU
    *  Aug. 25 -- NRLCA
    *  Aug. 28 -- NALC
    *  Aug. 29 -- APWU
    "We have worked successfully with our unions in the past to help
transform the Postal Service and we hope to maintain this momentum in the
current round of negotiations," said Doug Tulino, Vice President, Labor
Relations, for the Postal Service. "Our ultimate goal is to continue to
make the Postal Service a great place to work and to reach an agreement
that is fair to our customers as well as our employees."
    The Postal Service employs more than 676,000 bargaining unit employees,
with APWU, NALC, NRLCA and NPMHU accounting for more than 99.5% of these
employees.
    Since 1775, the United States Postal Service and its predecessor, the
Post Office Department, have connected friends, families, neighbors and
businesses by mail. An independent federal agency that visits more than 144
million homes and businesses every day, the Postal Service is the only
service provider delivering to every address in the nation. It receives no
taxpayer dollars for routine operations, but derives its operating revenues
solely from the sale of postage, products and services. With annual
revenues of $70 billion, it is the world's leading provider of mailing and
delivery services, offering some of the most affordable postage rates in
the world. The U.S. Postal Service delivers more than 46 percent of the
world's mail volume-some 212 billion letters, advertisements, periodicals
and packages a year-and serves ten million customers each day at its 37,000
retail locations nationwide.

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