September 19, 2008 COLA
September 19 you will get a COLA increase the largest increase the NPMHU has seen to date!
$1477.00 annually/$0.71 per hour! Do you think The Postal Service would give you this if your union didn't negotiate it? Just one more reason why you should join the NPMHU
You're a Federal worker. That means you can't campaign for any one candidate while on duty. For what else you can and cannot do regarding politcal activity, get to know the HATCH ACT.
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Postal News Page updated Aug 14, 2008 - A Windfall That Will Blow You Away; A Must Read for CSRS Employees
Most people would love to have a financial windfall. A chunk of unexpected money that appears out of nowwhere. But there is another kind of windfall. It is a formula that can eat into the Social Security benefit anticipated by tens of thousands of long-time (CSRS) federal workers, school teachers and employees of some nonprofits. (more...)
Arbitration Advocacy Training
Local 308 would like to announce that they will be holding Arbitration Advocacy Training on Aug 28 &29. The training will be done by Paul Hogrogian Vice President, Northeastern Region and Samuel C. D'Ambrosio Vice President, Eastern Region.
Time & Place TBA
Updated Every Thursday
Sammy the Steward's helpful Advice
Tip #6 - YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS "EQUALITY":
"Under the NLRA stewards and union officers have a protected legal status. This means that when engaged in representational activities, stewards and union officers are  considered to be equals with management. Behavior that could otherwise result in discipline must be tolerated. The National Labor Relations Board describes the equality rule this way: The relationship at a grievance meeting is not a "master-servant" relatinship but a relationship between company advocates on one side and union advocates on the other side, engaged as equal opposing parties in litigation.
The equality rule is consistent with declarations of the United States Supreme Court, which has said the the NLRA, the nations primary labor law, protects "robust debate" and "gives a union license to use intemperate, abusive, or insulting language without fear of restraint or penalty if it believes such rhetoric to be an effective means to make its point."
The equality rule allows a steward to raise his voice, gesture, use "salty" language, challenge managements claims of truthfulness, threaten legal action or raise the possibility of group protests. Vigorous advocacy may not always be necessary, but when it is used, an employer cannot label it as insubordination and impose discipline."
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All Steward Tips are taken from The Union Steward's Complete Guide by David Prosten, and the Shop Steward Manual put out by our National.
Labor Quote of the Week
Richard Trumka - AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer,
Oct. 26, 1995
"While we are always willing to negotiate as equals, the era of union busting, contract trashing, and strike breaking is at an end. Today, we say that when you pick a fight with any of us, you pick a fight with all of us! And that when you push us, we will push back! "
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