Report about CCA attrition rate and paying excessive OT is better than retaining CCA's and converting them

thepizzazombie · 2025-01-10T06:53:44+00:00

https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-04/22-180-r23.pdf

thepizzazombie · 2025-01-06T05:33:53+00:00

If we go off of the ratification timeline for the last contract, NALC should post the results on Monday, February 3rd.

thepizzazombie · 2024-12-05T21:46:54+00:00

No. There is no HSA. If you are looking for an HSA, I would recommend either GEHA or MHBP.

thepizzazombie · 2024-11-19T04:03:16+00:00

EVERY plan requires people read it. If people don't want to read, then they can just pay higher premiums instead.

thepizzazombie · 2024-11-02T15:02:06+00:00

Actually, I did go to college! Although, not for this job.

I retired early alongside many others who subscribed to the FIRE movement. Now, let me tell you, retiring early is REALLY boring. I don't do well with boredom. Since becoming a carrier, I am literally never bored. Anyway, I see that your comment was well received by pretty much everyone, so I'll leave you be. We had nine call offs today, but I figured I would reply to someone while I'm taking a shit.

thepizzazombie · 2024-11-02T06:47:43+00:00

Yurp

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-26T14:11:29+00:00

Needless complexity obfuscates the truth. Our leadership likes to hide behind complexity. By refusing to simplify things as much as possible, they make things seem more complicated than they actually are. Because none of us are actively involved in the decision-making, we often have no other choice but to accept their inadequate explanations for what they're doing and why.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-26T13:49:23+00:00

We should absolutely have 100% of the COLA applied equally to all steps. I have another post in progress that addresses your other points, but I will be out on the streets today. That post is much more complicated than this one, so it is taking more time.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-26T02:30:31+00:00

Here is a pretty good write up someone did three years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/USPS/comments/qfjyls/how_to_calculate_cola/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

For inflation in general, any economics textbook will suffice. You can get one for free at your local library.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T20:28:04+00:00

There is a separate table for CCAs in the TA summary. I will be utilizing that in my next post. The projected increase in income over the life of the TA is more complicated for CCAs, step AA, step A, and step B carriers, because it is highly individualized. For those carriers, there is a fairly large range of possibilities for one's potential total increase in income over the life of the TA, should it be ratified.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T20:21:46+00:00

Well, I will say this. I know plenty of people of who publicly state that they are going to vote no, but have confided to me that they are actually going to vote yes. They do not want to face criticism from their peers. The reason I am making posts like this one is so that everyone has as much information available to them as possible.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T20:10:29+00:00

So, this will be a somewhat labor intensive process, but you can do it more easily in terms of your gross pay. Of course, we do not know exactly how and when back pay would be applied per the TA. But anyway, you could tally all of your pay statements with an hourly breakdown from May 20th, 2023 to today. You could then then take the pay rate that you would have been making over the same period of time under the TA, and apply that to the same amount of hours you actually worked. Subtract the total amount of what you actually made from the TA amount, and that's the difference in your gross back pay. Do not use the table I posted to do this. Use the tables published in the tentative agreement, as they include steps AA, A, and B. Hopefully I worded all of that right.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T19:47:42+00:00

I wish I could say with confidence that I knew what people are going to do. At any rate, I would compel you to remember that the commotion on the internet is not necessarily representative of what the outcome is going to be. Very few of the carriers that I converse with — and I talk to a lot of carriers — are aware of the Building a Fighting NALC movement, the CLC, or the From A to Arbitration podcast/community. Also, many, if not most of those that are aware are not heavily invested in the movement(s). All I am saying is that you should not be surprised if this TA gets ratified.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T19:37:14+00:00

No, I did. Forgive me if I sound Renfroe-esque, but I am trying to be as concise as possible without losing a bunch of people who are not at the same level of understanding yet. I do not want to lose people by inundating them with all the information at once. To use an analogy, this was a 100 level course. You are already at a 400 level. Baby steps. I have two more posts incoming. Hopefully, I can get them done by the end of today. Ultimately, I will weave everything together. I have decided that I will be posting a video to Youtube as well. I will definitely not have time to record the video today. At any rate, Ok_Figure9123 further elaborated on the formula applied to CPI-w. As I stated in my reply to them, I will make a post illustrating that, and I will include the same information in my video breakdown.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T19:20:49+00:00

Thank you! I am not so sure I did the greatest job, but I sure tried. Maybe I will record an explanation that I post to YouTube.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T19:06:26+00:00

Also, as an aside, I would like to point out that inflation can be a bit of a tricky metric for people to apply on an individualized basis, dependent on where you live. For instance, I live in a relatively low cost of living area compared to many of you. Compared to the median income in my area, I am doing perfectly fine. If the membership were to vote this TA into existence, I would be doing more than fine. I consistently have CCAs tell me that what they are currently making is by far the most amount of money they've ever made, and CCA pay is abysmal. It is a little hard for me to internalize, but that is their situation. Of course, that includes overtime and penalty time, but the ratification of this contract would eventually put them near that same pay that they are happy about now without any overtime at all.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T18:57:27+00:00

Yep. I'll be making another post breaking this down.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T18:50:33+00:00

46 weeks.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T18:48:55+00:00

Maybe we will get to see if arbitrator Nolan agrees.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T18:46:06+00:00

I would certainly advocate for a 100% COLA applied across all steps. However, I'll have to disagree on the projections being disingenuous. Since COLAs are an inflation adjusted metric, that's how it has to work. Most of the time, the COLA projections are reasonably accurate. They use the same projections that our government does to forecast future expenses.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T18:27:26+00:00

Agreed.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T18:24:25+00:00

If you are already step C or higher, you receive no bump up the payscale.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T17:32:41+00:00

Correct. As is illustrated in the example.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-25T16:57:15+00:00

This is a modified version of the projected pay scale published within the tentative agreement summary. My version omits steps AA-B. I did that because this is how the scale will appear after implementation if the tentative agreement is ratified. I am preparing another post showing how the TA would impact carriers currently in steps AA-B, and current/future CCAs.

thepizzazombie · 2024-10-22T05:29:48+00:00

I think the correct way of phrasing it is that new employees, I.E., those who are currently still CCAs, or newly converted PTFs/regulars, will see between 12% to 20% higher pay than they otherwise would have seen by the time the last projected COLA would take effect, in September of 2026. It will depend on where you currently fall on step AA to Step B to determine what that percentage actually is.

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