HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

      2025 was a good year for Branch 2184. We are caught up and are moving grievances through the grievance procedure in all our offices without delay. Just today while working at the hall, the branch received two favorable Step B removal decisions for attendance. Both removal cases were rescinded in their entirety, and the discipline was removed from the member’s records. Great work, Branch 2184 stewards on putting together case files that kept two members with their jobs as carriers.

 

BRANCH ROUTE INSPECTIONS

 

      As of the beginning of the year, our branch has not been scheduled for any route inspections by management. Our Route Inspection Officer Dave Reise is currently reviewing data from the Canton route inspections from 2025.

 

2026 VACATION SELECTIONS

 

      All 2184 offices should be done with the 2026 vacation selections by now. Please notify the union hall immediately if your office has not completed the vacation selections.

 

CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS

 

      The current contract ends in a few months, May 22, 2026. Contract negotiations start later this month between our employer and NALC for our next contract on 02/25/2026.

      We will keep you all informed as we receive information and updates relating to contract talk between the parties.

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GRIEVE ALL DISCIPLINE

 

      Brothers and sisters, we encourage you to exercise your right to grieve all discipline that you receive from management whether you feel it is warranted or not. Management has certain criteria they must meet when issuing discipline. More times than not, management fails to meet the required Just Cause and Burden of Proof and the discipline is rescinded in its entirety or modified to a lesser suspension.

      We also encourage carriers to be present at the Informal A meeting of the grievance procedure to hear what is being said by the parties.

 

CCA UNIFORM BANK

 

      The branch is always in need of slightly used uniforms and winter gear for our new brothers and sisters. If you would like to contribute to our CCA uniform bank and you are an active carrier, please bring in your uniforms/carrier gear to your office and give it to your union steward. He/she will bring them over to the hall. If you are off on your NS Day or a recently retired carrier and are in the neighborhood, stop by and have a cup of coffee with the President or whatever officer is working that day, and drop off your donation(s). We will make sure you get your name mentioned in the next 2184 Union Courier.

      CCAs only need to be employed in one of our twenty Branch 2184 offices for forty-five (45) days, after which the CCA can call the union hall to make an appointment to come over and shop at the CCA Uniform Clothing Bank.

 

Thanks to the carriers who have come by the union hall recently to donate uniforms for our CCAs.

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-- Jacqueline McGregory

Executive Vice President

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