2 Letter Carrier

NALC BRANCH 210

POLITICAL NEWccc

UNION MEETING

HAPPENINGS

NOVEMBER 2007

50/50 WINNER FOR NOVEMBER WAS

TONY POLIDORI!!!

FOR $181.00

TONY IS A LETTER CARRIER FROM ROCHESTER 14619 (THURSTON)

CONGRATULATIONS TONY!!

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.

Greg Karalias gave the membership report in which he read 14 new members had joined the branch this month.

Norm LeFrois gave a Health Benefits report: Norm told the members that the new TE's if they choose to join the NALC are eligible to purchase any of the insurance programs offered by MBA. This includes all the Life Insurance plans as well as the Maturity Income Plan. The MBA has announced that the interest rate for the Maturity Income plan for the period of October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008 is 5.75%. Norm stated that the NALC insurance Department is going to soon announce a new plan to better serve the active Letter Carriers and their insurance needs. When we get word about this new plan information will be sent out to the members.

Norm is going to be offering (2) two open houses for you to go and ask him questions regarding your insurance needs. These open houses will be Thursday November 15, 2007 at the GMF Cafeteria from 8:30am-1:00pm, and the second is Tuesday December 4, 2007 at the Wishing Well Party House @1190 Chili Ave 14624 1:00pm-4:00pm. Norm will review your current insurance plan and help you make sure your needs are addressed.

During this open season please make sure when making a choice for insurance that you take into consideration not only premiums but also coverage and co-pays.

Are you going to retire?? We recently have had a few carriers call the office as they forgot to send in their applications to join after retirement, remember if you are retiring you must fill out the 1187 that is sent to you after you retire in order to remain a member, IT IS NOT AUTOMATIC. the window to join is limited and once National drops your membership it can not be regained.

As per our contractual agreement we will be receiving back pay for the 1.4% pay increase back to November of last year, that back pay will be for all hours worked up to Pay period 20 when the pay increase went into affect and should include Overtime worked. The Back pay will be in your regular Paycheck on November 30, 2007.

The Lyons NY merger has been approved by headquarters and therefore Lyons NY is now part of Branch 210. Shawn Wells is the Steward in Lyons and his fellow members to the Branch.

Nominations for Branch 210 Officers for the three year term of 2008 through 2010 took place at the meeting and all Officers were elected by acclamation. The chart below shows the results of the nominations.

President Art Muoio

Vice-President Kenny Montgomery

Director of City Delivery John Wilson

Treasurer Sam Hogan

Secretary Tony Polidori

Financial Secretary Greg Karalias

Director of Insurance Norm LeFrios

Sgt. at Arms Carl Cleveland

Trustees Mike Dilal

Ken Mahns

Walter Simoni

AFL-CIO Delegates Dave Melville

Gary Broman

Joe Dimaria

Mike Masters

Walter Simoni

Luis Oliver

President Muoio appointed Jack O'Connor as the Benefit Trust Officer for the 2008-2010 term.

Steward elections will be held in January 2008, if you are interested in running for Union Steward in your unit either notify your present steward or contact the Union Office by Monday January 7, 2008 and we will arrange an election for your unit.

The penalty exclusion period for this year is December 1st through December 28th 2007. During this period every year there is no Penalty Overtime (V-time) any overtime that would normally be penalty (V-time) is apid at the regular overtime rate of time and a half.

TE's are beginning to be hired here in Rochester as part of the new contract, these employees are eligible to be Union members and in most cases they have joined our Branch, if you know of any TE's that have not yet joined try to get them on board.

Branch 210 has arranged a defensive driving course through AAA. There will be 2 classes held and each class consists of 2 evenings. The first class is Monday and Wednesday January 21 & 23, 2008 and the second class is Monday and Wednesday January 28 & 30, 2008 both classes are 6:30pm - 9:30pm and are at the AAA office in Penfield, 2156 Penfield Road near the corner of Rt. 250 and Rt. 441.

On November 10, 19 PTF's will be converted to Regular. They should all be reporting to their new stations 11/10/2007 as they have all chosen their bids assignments.

Beginning in pay period 1 2008 the National dues structure is set to increase dues by 64 cents.

The CFC campaign is about to begin, if you are not sure who to donate your contribution to, the union recommends the Postal Employees Relief Fund. the code number is 10268. This fund helps Postal Workers in times of tragedy.

Branch 210 would like to welcome Vern Lamboy as the new steward in Spencerport.

Branch 210 will be again running the MDA raffle in the month of December. Ask your steward for tickets.

The next Union meeting is scheduled for Wednesday November 7, 2007 at 7:00pm and will be held at the Wishing Well which is located on Chili Ave 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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