APWU: COLA Update For FECA Employees (8/19/14)

For FECA employees: (08/19/14) The percentage increase in the December CPI-W index from year to year determines the FECA COLA increase. The 2014 FECA COLA will be 1.5% effective March 2014. After the seventh month of the twelve-month adjustment period for the 2015 FECA COLA, the CPI-W index has risen 2.335%. via APWU | American … Read more

A Safe Workplace: It’s Not a Matter of Luck

May 1, 2014 – (This article appears in the May-June 2014 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By Tony D. McKinnon Sr., Industrial Relations Director Our members want to be assured that we will leave work each day as healthy as we were when we arrived. And that’s not a matter of luck. It’s … Read more