2 Letter Carrier

N.A.L.C. Branch 210

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK

UNION MEETING

HAPPENINGS

SEPTEMBER 2009

50/50 WINNER FOR SEPTEMBER WAS

MICHELLE MILLER

FOR $135.50

MICHELLE IS A LETTER CARRIER FROM ROCHESTER, ZONE 17

CONGRATULATIONS MICHELLE!

The meeting was called to order by President Art Muoio at 7:00pm. A motion to dispense with the reading of the previous meeting minutes was made and passed.

The Labor Day Parade held and those that attended had a great time and enjoyed refreshments provided by the Branch. We would like to see a better turn-out next year. we only had about 25 carriers out of 1400 members of Branch 210 march this year.

Norm spoke on Health Benefits and spoke briefly on the new law passed in NY pertaining to coverage for unmarried children up to the age of 29. Norm researched this issue and it was determined that this is a State l;aw and the Postal Service is not covered under State law. We are a Federal organization and therefore are governed by Federal law, which does not have the same provision as this New State law therefore the extension of benefits to children over 22 does NOT apply to postal workers.

Open Season for Health Benefits this year will be November 9, 2009 through December 14, 2009. If you want to make changes to your Health coverage this would be the time to make those changes. Norm will be holding open houses during the open season period to answer any questions you might have regarding your coverage. Look to your bulletin boards for a flyer soon regarding these open houses.

Kevin Montgomery has recently been appointed to the political COPE Chairman of the Labor Council, President Muoio has now appointed Kevin as our Political Director. Kevin will be informing the branch on legislation that affect letter carriers.

The release of the latest consumer price index shows no increase in the cost of living, therefore there is no accumulation towards the next Cost of Living (COLA).

During this years telethon MDA raised 60.5 Million dollars, Branch 210 contributed raised $5264 of that amount. We will continue to hold the June and December fundraisers as they appear to be successful. The Branch will be holding a Bowl-a-Thon to raise funds for MDA. This event will be held in conjunction with a National bowl-a-Thon on November 1, 2009. It is planned at Clover Lanes in Rochester and will be $25 per bowler. There will be raffles, prizes, pizza, pop and fun. It doesn't matter if you are great bowler or not there will be opportunities for all to win prizes throughout the day.

The Branch would like to thank Mark Rivet for his work as Steward in 14607. Mark has stepped down for personal reasons.

Jack O'Connor notified the membership that he will be holding the Columbus Day golf tournament again this year. the cost is $50 per person and includes Longest drive, Closest to the pin, HOTS, Hamburgs and Sausage all day, and a buffet dinner. $10 per person of your fee will go to Ovarian Cancer research. There will be an 11:00am Shotgun start. The tournament is held at Victor Hills on October 12.

With the excessing of letter carriers in the city delivery zones the carriers excessed (lost their routes or utilities) as per Article 12 of the contract will retain retreat rights to the first opening in the delivery zone where they were excessed. therefore if a delivery zone has excessed an employee any vacant route will only be up for bid for the employees in that delivery zone in the job classification where the employee was excessed. If a regular with a route was excessed then bidding is restricted to route holders in that zone. If a utility is excessed then any utility opening in that zone, bidding is restricted to just utilities in that zone until the excessed employee is returned or refuses to return. After all excessed employees have exercised their retreat rights the jobs will again go up for bid in the City. Not all units are excessing and there will still be some citywide bidding.

On October 2, 2009 the Branch will hold it annual retirees Breakfast to honor our 50 and 60 year members. The breakfast is free to all who want to attend retired or not. Please notify the Union office by September 25 if you plan to attend. The breakfast will be held at the Wishing Well Party House beginning at 9:00am.

the Western NY district has been moved to the Eastern area and as of October 1 we will no longer be under the Northeast area. Our new Postal Area is based in Pittsburgh.

The Union meetings are again general membership and the next Union meeting is scheduled for Wednesday October 7, 2009 at 7:00pm and will be held at the Valencia's Restaurant which is located on Long Pond Road in Gates.

And finally I would like to invite more members to Union meetings to learn what is happening with your Union.

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