Build a Fighting NALC

09/05/2026

06/03/2026

🚨 CONTRACT UPDATE: WHAT MEMBERS ARE HEARING 🚨

The following information includes a mix of officially reported bargaining updates and reports from members who attended recent meetings. Some items remain UNCONFIRMED until official proposals or contract language are released.

According to notes shared from the recent Collective Bargaining Conference and member discussions:

📌 USPS and NALC have not reached a tentative agreement and negotiations have moved into mediation. The current contract remains in effect while bargaining continues.

📌 Reports from attendees indicate USPS is targeting a package in the neighborhood of $4.5 billion, while some proposals sought by carriers would cost substantially more.

📌 One reported proposal included:
* 1.5% general wage increases for three years
* $750 payments
* Shortened step progression to 40 weeks

📌 Discussion reportedly took place regarding an all-career workforce. Some attendees stated a package reaching approximately $30/hour starting pay and $50/hour top pay was estimated to cost around $12 billion.

📌 4/10 schedules were reportedly discussed, with attendees claiming survey results showed significant member interest and that additional polling may occur.

📌 Multiple attendees reported discussion of AI or data-driven route adjustment systems that would rely heavily on workload and DOIS-type data. Many carriers immediately raised concerns about management influence, route growth, and reduced carrier input in the adjustment process.

📌 Additional reports included:
* No Lead Carrier program
* Continued disagreements over overtime issues
* Discussions involving casing and route evaluation changes

What IS confirmed is that NALC entered formal negotiations in February, the contract expired May 22, and the parties are now in mediation after failing to reach a tentative agreement.

At this point, carriers should separate confirmed facts from meeting reports and rumors. However, if the reported discussions are accurate, many members will likely be focused on three major issues:

1️⃣ Pay and step progression
2️⃣ All-career workforce proposals
3️⃣ AI/DOIS-based route adjustments and inspections

As always, the details matter. Until official language is released, nothing should be considered final.

What concerns you most about what is being reported?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bkBMiw7W0wqTZOuGuKFUjqoCRbKvv2qBeRo0uodYJ7s/edit?usp=sharing

05/05/2026

BFN Minneapolis chapter and NALC Branch 9 members at the 2026 May Day Parade.

We led the crowd in chants calling for ICE Off Postal Property, to Fund the Postal Service NOT War, and for the Right to Strike.

We demand money for jobs, education, housing, and healthcare, NOT war!

05/04/2026

BFN Minneapolis chapter and NALC Branch 9 members at the 2026 May Day Parade.

We led the crowd in chants calling for ICE Off Postal Property, to Fund the Postal Service NOT War, and for the Right to Strike.

We demand money for jobs, education, housing, and healthcare, NOT war!

03/10/2026

Let’s plan a day of action for the end of our contract. Please register for the March 15th Zoom meeting:
www.NextGenerationCarriers.com/may22

Discussion/Speaker:
• 'Save USPS from Mis-Management' day of action(John Murphy)
- Cross craft solidarity(APWU Mike Bates)
- Organizing a day of action(NALC James Capone)
- What comes after? (NALC Mike Caref)
- Discussion/Comments/Concerns on the various topics.
Current action items to be voted on:
- Vote on Day of Action(Friday May 22nd? / Saturday May 23?)
- Vote on what comes after(March on USPS HQ? / Statewide rallies?
- Vote on next meeting(3.29.26? / 4.5.26?)

02/23/2026

Build a Fighting NALC members were out with our NALC branches across the country for the February 22 contract rallies raising our program for $30/hour starting wage, End Mandatory Overtime, All Career Workforce, Top Pay in Six Years, the Right to Strike, and more!

BFN led the fight for Open Bargaining in 2024, and has played a key role in making sure our national leadership has followed through on the contract campaign resolution. Closed door negotiations that keep the membership in the dark will not produce a strong contract. BFN calls for the need to mobilize the membership to build public support for our demands as negotiations being. February 22 rallies were just one step in the right direction.

Photos 1-4 • Minneapolis
Photo 5 • Boston
Photos 6-8 • Portland
Photos 9-10 • Des Moines

01/25/2026

BFN Twin Cities and Branch 9 members joined thousands of people in frigid cold in downtown Minneapolis today to demand ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

As long as ICE continues operations like these, they create a major safety hazard for letter carriers and the communities we serve. ICE makes delivery unsafe. End the occupation of Minnesota now!

We demand Justice for Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and all communities brutalized and terrorized by the ICE occupation of Minnesota.

BFN Twin Cities demands:
- ICE Out of Minnesota!
- Arrest and Convict all ICE agents involved in the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti!
- ICE Off Postal Property!

Build a Fighting NALC (BFN) is a rank and file reform caucus of NALC members fighting for $30/hour starting wage, an all career workforce, the Right to Strike, and more! If you’re a letter carrier and want to get involved in the fight to transform our union, DM us!

01/22/2026

ALL OUT FOR FEBRUARY 22 CONTRACT RALLIES!

Build a Fighting NALC (BFN) has been calling for and organizing contract rallies on February 22 for several months. It’s good that national NALC leadership has taken up this call, but rank and file NALC members need to get organized to fight for the demands we need in the next contract.

BFN calls for:
- $30/hr Starting Wage
- All Career Workforce
- Top Pay in 6 Years
- End to Mandatory Overtime
- Right to Strike

We need all of this and more to fight for the contract rank and file letter carriers need.

We call on NALC members to raise these demands and more in speeches, on signs, banners, and in chants at February 22 rallies across the country. To put pressure on national leadership, and make it clear the rank and file is getting organized to fight for a strong contract.

01/21/2026

Hundreds of postal workers, union members, and community supporters came out on Sunday, January 18 for the "ICE Out of Minnesota!" rally in Minneapolis.

Postal workers demand safety on the job, and stand in solidarity with immigrant communities.

The demands of the rally were:
- ICE Out Of Minnesota!
- Arrest and Convict ICE Agent Jonathan Ross!
- ICE Off Postal Property!

01/14/2026

Join postal workers and community supporters on Sunday, January 18 at 11am at the Lake Street Post Office to demand ICE OUT OF MN!

A month ago we rallied and marched to demand ICE Off Postal Property, after ICE agents were using postal parking lots to stage their operations in South Minneapolis.

Since then, the Trump administration has mobilized nearly 2,000 federal agents to the Twin Cities.

After the killing of Renee Good on January 7 by ICE agent Jonathan Ross protests have exploded in Minneapolis and across the country. The labor movement needs to join the fight, to end the occupation of Minneapolis and terror campaign against our immigrant communities.

We Demand:
- ICE OUT OF MN!
- Convict killer ICE agent Jonathan Ross!
- ICE Off Postal Property!