2025 BRANCH 2184 FOOD DRIVE
 

      The total amount of food collected by Branch 2184 this year was 168,951 pounds. Allen Park collected 7,860 pounds, Belleville 7,085 pounds, Dearborn Main 6,177 pounds, Dearborn Annex 13,065 pounds, Dearborn Heights 3,550 pounds, Dundee 1,964 pounds, Flat Rock 4,650 pounds, Grosse He, 1,707 pounds, Inkster 3,984 pounds, Lincoln Park 9,000 pounds, Monroe 8,588 pounds, Northville 4,208 pounds, Plymouth 11,393 pounds, Rockwood 5,318 pounds, Taylor 10,705 pounds, Temperance 4,600 pounds, Trenton 8,750 pounds, Canton 12,223 pounds, Westland 15,758 pounds, Wayne 1,366 pounds and Ypsilanti 27,000 pounds.

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      Overall, the Food Drive was a success once again. A special thank you to our station Food Drive Coordinators that went that extra mile to make this year’s annual food drive a successful event, and thanks to everyone for all their assistance and work with the Food Drive.

 

2023-2026 NATIONAL AGREEMENT AVAILABLE ONLINE

 

      On March 21, 2025, National Arbitrator Nolan issued an award that set the terms of the 2023-2026 National Agreement. Paper copies will be available at a later date, per information on the NALC Nationalwebsite. For now, the online version of the National Agreement is available on the NALC website, at NALC.org.

 

FULL-TIME CARRIERS DESIRING OVERTIME MUST SIGN NEW ODL LISTS

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      It is very important that all full-time career carriers that signed an Overtime Desired List, whether it was the last quarter or twenty years ago, and you never got off the list, to know the following.

 

Beginning with the next postal quarter on July 1, full-time letter carriers will have more options and those that want to be on an Overtime Desired List MUST re-sign the list or lists that they want to be on. The signup period for the next post quarter is June 16 through June 30.

 

      As before, carriers can sign the Work Assignment List indicating their availability to work up to 12 hours only on their own assignment and only on a regularly scheduled day. The new language does not change the rules regarding the Work Assignment List. Current Work Assignment (WA) List carriers that wish to remain on the Work Assignment List DO NOT have to sign it again, it carries over into the next quarter, (July, August, September), 2025.

 

      Under terms of the new contract, letter carriers who wish to be on the ODL can choose to volunteer to work up to 12 hours on their scheduled days only, or they can volunteer to work overtime up to eight hours only on their non-scheduled days. If they desire to do both, they can do so by signing both of these lists. Letter carriers who want to work up to 12 hours on their scheduled days only are available to work up to the daily limitations on each of their regularly scheduled days. On their non-scheduled days, they are treated like other letter carriers who are not on the ODL.

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      For letter carriers who have selected the list option to work overtime up to eight hours only on their non-scheduled days, they can work only on their non-scheduled days up to a maximum of eight hours. On their regularly scheduled days and for work beyond eight hours on their non-scheduled days, they are the same as non-ODL letter carriers.

 

      If a letter carrier chooses to sign both of these lists, they may do so, and if so, they are volunteering to work up to 12 hours per day on both their scheduled and non-scheduled days. In essence, it is the same as the ODL that has been in place for many years. There is no longer an option for carriers to indicate their preference to work up to 10 hours in a day.

 

      As under previous contracts, letter carriers have the right to sign the ODL or Work Assignment List during the two weeks before the beginning of the calendar quarter. Previously, once a letter carrier signed the list, they never had to sign it again as long as they remained in the same installation and did not remove their name from the list. Again, because of the changes to the ODL, letter carriers who are on the list during the current quarter must sign one or both of the new ODLs if they want to remain available for overtime. The next quarter begins on July 1, so every full-time letter carrier who wants to sign one of the ODLs should indicate their preference during the two-week signup period.

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-- Jacqueline McGregory

Executive Vice President