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Branch 1111 News
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Volume 39Number 447 November 2019
Oakland Airport Trio Celebrate RetirementOakland Airport Trio Celebrate Retirement
Branch Officer Installation November 26 Walnut Creek members, including some who’ve already retired, show up to say farewell to Joe Balogna (in dark jacket). Pictured left to right are Steve Cantreras, Terry Madden, Rod Loquiao, Ron Buscaglia, Kurt Scneider, Kory McNeely, Tony Williams and Robert Narez in chair in front. Branch President Ed Fletcher congratulates and bids farewell to Oakland Airport carriers Edgardo Tablan, Francisco Vallena Jr., and Connie Kwan Branch Officer Installation November 26 Walnut Creek members, including some who’ve already retired, show up to say farewell to Joe Balogna (in dark jacket). Pictured left to right are Steve Cantreras, Terry Madden, Rod Loquiao, Ron Buscaglia, Kurt Scneider, Kory McNeely, Tony Williams and Robert Narez in chair in front. Branch President Ed Fletcher congratulates and bids farewell to Oakland Airport carriers Edgardo Tablan, Francisco Vallena Jr., and Connie Kwan
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BRANCH 1111 OFFICERS
Edward P. Fletcher, President Jose Ochoa, ExecutiveVice President Narciso Paderanga, FirstVice President Terrence Super, SecondVice President Francisco Cabrera, ThirdVice President Julie McCormick, Fourth Vice President John Ferreira, Secretary-Treasurer Mary Phelps, Asst. Sec-Treasurer Keith Massey, Sgt-at-Arms Jacob Morgan,Insurance Officer Jose Corral, Trustee Jerry DePoe, Trustee Ron Jones, Trustee
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS Christina Aviles, Elizabeth Corriea, Rickie Cox, Marisela Fletcher, Ray Garcia, Frances Rodriguez
BRANCH 1111 OFFICE HOURS Monday-Friday: 8 am to 5 pm 402 –37th Street Richmond, Ca. 94805-2134 510-237-5111, Fax 510-237-5181
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Branch 1111 News
Branch 1111 News is the official monthly publication of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), Greater East Bay Branch 1111. Circulation 3,000
Offices Served: Alameda, Alamo, Antioch, Benicia, Berkeley, Brentwood, Clayton, Concord, Crockett, Danville, El Cerrito, Fairfield, Fremont, Lafayette, Livermore, Martinez, Moraga, Oakland, Orinda, Pinole, Pittsburg, Pleasanton, Richmond, Rodeo, San Lorenzo, San Ramon, Suisun City, Union City, Vallejo, Walnut Creek
BRANCH 1111 NEWS STAFF
Editor - John Jekabson: jjbranch1111@gmail.com Assistant Editor –Joshua Pearl: joshpbranch1111@gmail.com
Contributors -- Ed Fletcher, Jose Ochoa, John Ferreira, Narciso Paderanga, Julie McCormick, Liz Corriea, Ron Jones, Jerry DePoe, Francisco Cabrera, Jaspal Hundal, Julie McCormick, Mary Phelps, Terrence Super, Keith Massey, Jacob Morgan
Views expressed in Branch 1111 News do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editor, Branch Officers, or members of National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 1111
Mea Culpa The newspaper staff regrets inadvertently leaving Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Mary Phelpsout of last month’s calendar issue. We apologize for the oversight.
PostmasterGeneralRetiring The Postal Service has announced that Postmaster Megan Brennan is retiring, effective January 31, 2020. Brennan is the 74 th Postmaster General and the first woman to serve in this role. Upon her retirement, she will have served in the position for five years. She began her career as a letter carrier in Lancaster, PA. The search for the 75th Postmaster will commence in a few months.
Overtime Exclusion Period Announced This year the December exclusion period begins November 30, 2019 and ends December 27. Penalty overtime regulations are not applicable during this time
2020 ScholarshipOpportunities Have a graduating seniorat home?Please see pages 8 and 9 for information about local and national scholarships available to the children of letter carriers.
A Salute to Verle Craven A picture our newspaper staff took of Verle receiving an award for his service at our July meeting, was used on page 51 of the Postal Record.
Our CCA’s and PTF’s Need Uniforms! If you have retired and have gently used or new uniform items, we are collecting those items at the Branch 1111 office for them as they go through their evaluation period .
Special Guest for November Meeting National Director of City Delivery Christopher Jackson is coming to our November Branch meeting to install all the new officers and council members
HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU! The following carriers retired recently: Aung Thet of Concord, Rosemary Levy of Oakland Eastmont and Manuel Madrid Jr. of Rodeo-Hercules. We wish many years of leisure to all!
MDA Winners $50 Brookfield Uniforms prize won by John Jekabson and $38 50/50 Raffle won by Oswald Jacobs.
Feeling Generous this Holiday Season? Please consider donating to the Letter Carrier Political Fund. Call Branch for details.
Mary Phelps hard at work.
Recent Union City Retiree Johnny Hedges(center) with shop stewards Yolanda Duenas and Curtis Flores
Reminder: There is no December Branch meeting. Happy Holidays to all.
Branch 1111 News November 2019 PRESIDENT’S VIEW TheSpinning Wheel Must Be Balanced By Edward P. Fletcher, President
In life, there are checks and balances that must be maintained to keep things in order. In short, one thing offsets another. For example, water is used to put out fires. A credit or deposit is used to offset a debit or check written from a bank account. We all must ensure that we will have more credits than debits to avoid being overdrawn. Have you ever driven a car where the tires pull to one side or the other? Have you noticed that your tires have worn out unevenly? If so, that is proof that your car needs a front-end alignment or your wheels need to be balanced. Well, the US Postal Service is no different and must stop spinning its wheels and find balance to succeed. The USPS’s Unbalanced Business Model
Given that Branch 1111 does the majority of orientations for new letter carriers in the Northern Bay Area, I can tell you that the USPS’s approach to hiring is unbalanced and needs an overhaul. The first sign that the air is leaking out of the tire is the fact that attrition rate is still extremely high. Senior carriers are retiring in droves, like flocks of birds heading south for the winter. It is not the simple “circle of life” theory here in the USPS. For example, when I started in 1985, there were a lot of senior carriers who workedway past the Minimum Retirement Age (MRA). Today, so many carriers are leaving the USPS as soon as they reach their MRA. What is wrong with this picture?
We are losing too many long-term career and experienced letter carriers and replacing them with a workforce that has low retention rates. The USPS will continue to expend a lot of resources hiring and training new employees only to have them leave and start the whole process over again. This will also create insufficient staffing levels, excessive overtime, more Contract violations and sacrifice proper service to our customers.
It is time to take the car into the shop for a complete overhaul! What is the fix?
The USPS needs to go back to hiring an all career workforce. Increase the starting wages and benefits while shortening the time it takes to reach the higher pay levels. that sought to halt the Consolidated Casing Initiative. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg concluded that the court lacked jurisdiction to issue the preliminary injunction that the NALC requested, which would have halted the Initiative pending the outcome of the national-level arbitration. The arbitration is presently scheduled to begin November 22, before national arbitrator Shyam Das. The court reasoned that a preliminary injunction halting an employer action pending arbitration is only warranted when the employer’s action would render the arbitration “meaningless.” The court concluded that a preliminary injunction was not warranted here because Arbitrator Das will have the authority (if he rules for NALC) to find that the Consolidated Casing Initiative violates the National Agreement and to order the USPS to end it (nalc.org). What does this mean for us? In short, it was deferred back to the grievance arbitration process to be adjudicated. We will continue the fight against this unbalanced and reckless initiative that I believe is destine to fail.
What should the USPS do with the Consolidated Case Initiative? Simply put, “junk it!” In the Midst of it All, We Must Still Give Thanks It is that time of year again where families are traveling from afar, gathering together, enjoying the holiday feast, telling stories, watching football and giving thanks for our blessings. For those reasons, Thanksgiving has always been my favorite time of the year. So, what am I thankful for? For all of my family members, from the eldest teacher to the youngest child. I am thankful for my brothers and sisters who fight every day in the NALC to uphold our contractual rights. I am thankful to serve the membership of Branch 1111 as your President with all my fellowOfficers. Even though the USPS will continue to spin its unbalanced wheels, we must be thankful for our families and the benefits that we have obtained and we will continue our fight for the benefits, health, and welfare of allLetter Carriers. Happy Thanksgiving!
Case Consolidation Lawsuit Dismissed
Branch 1111 News November 2019 Open Season strongly encourage you to look into what the NALC Plan has to offer and reach out to me if you have any questions you may need answered.
NALCHBP.org has loads of information available at the click of a button or two. Make the most out of 2020 Open Season and get the most out of your health insurance policy.
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By Jacob Morgan, Insurance Officer
November 11 th through December 9 th marks the time frame for the 2020 Health Care Open Season. Weatherit be an increase in premiums or adjustments to coverage, most every health insurance policy has slight changes every year.
Do you know what the changes to your policy will be in 2020?
Now is the perfect time to sit down and review your current policyand the options available. Many brothers and sisters sign up for a health insurance policy early in their career and become complacent with it. Some may go to their check-ups, have routine procedures and examinations, and pay what bills come to their mailbox without thinking too much about it. They may not know why various charges show up on their explanation of benefits statement or what they even relate to. You may or may not be one of these members. Regardless of how knowledgeable you are about your current health insurance policy, I would encourage you to reevaluate your health care coverage and needs.
If you're unaware of where to start, here are a few questions you may want to consider:
How is my family covered?
What is my deductible?
How much ismy copay?
What is my premium cost?
What is subject to co-insurance?
Are inpatient hospitalizations covered?
Is Chiropractic/Acupuncture care covered?
How will my policy interact with Medicare?
What procedures and examinations are covered?
What is my policy's catastrophic limit (maximum out of pocket per year)?
Of course, as the NALC Health Benefits Representative for Branch 1111, I would love to see everyone switch over to the NALC Plan. Everyone has different needs when it comes to health care and I think that the NALC Plan High Option has the best coverage forthe cost out of many plans out there. I would
Branch 1111 News November2019 Remember Continue to do the hard work that you do and continue to be safe while working. In solidarity!
When?
By Narciso Paderanga, IV, First Vice President
Remember when we had “coffins” full of flats and excessive flats all over and around our cases?
Remember when our office times were more than 3 or 4 hours because of all the letters and flats we had to case? Remember when we had carrier craft positions such as “Routers” who were assigned to assist letter carriers on their routes in casing 3 rd class mail and “lining” of flats, express mail delivery, and collections?
Remember when management didn’t care where we were as long as we finished our routes in 8 hours?
Now, we barely have any letter or flat mail to case, our office time shrunk to about one hour, no Router positions to assist us, and management “pinging” our location every minute of the hour and our street times are as long as six and a half hours or longer.
“Consolidated Casing” Management also wants to cut our wages and/or our benefits such as medical and retirement. It also wants to change our ways of delivery by having a pilot program called “consolidated casing.” According to National Director of City Delivery Chris Jackson in his Postal Record article in May of 2019, USPS intends to consolidate six routes into one casing assignment for one letter carrier to case and pull down while other letter carriers come in, get their keys, scanners and accountable items, then go straight to the street. Management wants to eliminate most of the office times used by our brothers and sisters by thisplan and to make room for the increased parcel volume. Another brilliant idea? I think not. Since management’s unilateral action, your Union has filed a class action grievance at the National level which is scheduled to be heard at National Arbitrationon November 22, 2019 and a lawsuit against the Postal Service in the federal district court in Washington D.C. asking the court to issue an injunction stopping the Postal Service from continuing its Consolidated Casing Initiative until the pending national level grievance is resolved.
Although, the U. S. District Judge concluded that the federal district court lacked jurisdiction to issue the preliminary injunction as requested by the NALC, the NALC will continue to fight this battle at the national level arbitration. Will the USPS’s plan work or not? So far, there has been word that in bigger offices, it has failed but in a low-volume office, it has worked. So, it has yet to be determined. In the meantime, the NALC will continue to enforce the Contract and all of the provisions contained within and will continue to better your hours, wages and working conditions as we face contract negotiations for the upcoming years.
New Richmond McVitty Steward LaNina Wilson-Kennedy at last month’s Branch meeting
Highest Volume Days approaching With a projected 800 million package deliveries between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, the Postal Service delivers more packages to homes than any other shipper.The Postal Service will expand Sunday delivery beginning Nov. 24 to locations with high package volumes. USPS already delivers packages on Sundays in most major cities and anticipates delivering more than 8 million packages on Sundays in December. Mail carriers will also deliver packages for an additional fee on Christmas Day inselectlocations.
BusiestMailingandDeliveryDays The Postal Service’s busiest time of the season peaks two weeks before Christmas, when much last-minute shopping starts. Customer traffic is expected to increase beginning Dec. 9, while the week of Dec. 16 is expected to be the busiest time for mailing, shipping and delivery. Additionally, the Postal Service predicts that nearly 2.5 billion pieces of First-Class Mail, including greeting cards, will be processed and delivered the week of Dec. 16.
Being treated with Dignity
and Respect!
By Terrence L. Super, Second Vice President
It’s sad that I even have towrite an article about something like this. Being treated with dignity and respect should be number one when it comes to working for the Postal Serviceor any job for that matter!
When management talks to you or wants to give you instructions, it should be in a respectful way. There have been way too many times when a supervisor or even a postmaster have yelled, gotten into a carrier’s face, and even actually put their hands on a carrier!
This is unacceptable! There is NEVER an excuse to put your hands on, yell, or get in a carrier’s face, violating their personal space. As Stewards we MUST protect the rights of our members in situations like this. If this is going on in your station, “SAY SOMETHING!” I don’t care if the Supervisor tells you to go back to your case, our job as Steward is to de-escalate situations that could potentially become violent. I will back up any Steward that does this.
With that being said, it is important not to make the situation worse. We should calmly try to resolve the situation and not stoop to managements’ level by yelling or screaming back at them. If that were to happen management will attempt to blame us for making the situation worse!
So again, calmly try and resolve the issue and keep our carriers out of trouble. As far as management is concerned 9 times out of 10 itis they who provoke the situation in the first place! If they hadn’t yelled at you or treated you disrespectfully it never would get to that point.
Also, we have the grievance procedure which could allow us to make management take sensitivity training, and/or even remove that offending person from supervising in that particular office. If it gets to a point where it makes other carriers uncomfortable, it could rise to the level of violating the Joint Statement on Violence and Behavior in the Workplace. So again, there are many things as a Union we can do when it comes to issues like this, but we need our members help. In order to file a successful grievance on Dignity and Respect and/or the Joint Statement on Violence and Behavior in the Workplace we need other carriers on the workroom floor to step up and write statements if they hear management yelling or screaming at another carriers.
Because if not, it becomes a “he said, she said case,” which are very difficult to win. I know some carriers “just don’t want to get involved,”but you would wantsomeone to stand up for you if it happened to you………right? So please fellow union members help each other make management cringe whenever they even think about disrespecting you.
We are all human beings and should be treated as such.
Berkeley DDU Safe Driving Awards to Chuck Frajo,,Tina Cruz, David Low, Angel Pagan, and Linda Martinez.
HappyThanksgiving!
FromBranch1111
Safe Driving Awards to Oakland Airport carriers Edgardo Tablan, Danny Martinez and Mike Balolong
2020 Carl J. Saxsenmeier Scholarship Program
The California State Association of Letter Carriers (CSALC) is now accepting applications for the 2020 Carl J. Saxsenmeier Scholarship Program. All applications must be received by the Scholarship Chair by January 3, 2020. The Chair will send scholarship packets to all applicants by the end of January 2020. The scholarships are available to the children or grandchildren of members of NALC Branches within the State of California who have not served in a supervisory capacity in the previous two (2) years from the date of 2019 award announcement. Applicant’s parent / grandparent must be a member in good standing of the NALC for at least one year prior to applying. Applicant must be a high school senior when applying. Saxsenmeier Scholarship awards are issued in the year of graduation and are not renewable.
Jeff Parr Saxsenmeier Scholarship Chair 1177 Levine Dr-Santa Rosa, Ca 95401 707-523-1818
Student’s Name:
NALC Member’s Name:
Home Address:
City / State/ ZIP
Home Telephone:
Cell / Fax:
Email Address:
Applicant’s Signature: NALC Member Signature:
Relationship to Applicant:
Local NALC Branch Officer Signature required for verification of member in good standing:
NALC Branch Officer Signature: Title: Branch Officer Printed Name: Branch Number:
NALC BRANCH 1111 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION Applications are being accepted for the Branch 1111 Katherine Ellis Memorial Scholarship. Applicants must submit the form provided below no later than February 28, 2020
Eligibility requirements: 1)The applicant must be a memberof the graduating class of 2019-2020 2) The applicant must be so or daughter or legally adopted child/ stepchild of a member in good standing with Branch 1111. Any questions about the scholarship should be referred to John Ferreira of the Scholarship Committee at: 510-237-5111
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Please send instructions as to how I can compete for the Scholarship Award. I will be a senior in the year 2019-2020 I am the child of (active) (retired) or(deceased) member ___________________________________ (name)
Branch 44, Manchester NH My Social Security Number is ______-____-______Signature of NALC Parent______________________
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Doherty & Donelon Scholarships
In honor of the NALC’s president from 1941-1962 the William C. Doherty Scholarship Fund will again award five $4,000 scholarships to children of members in good standing. The John T. Donelon Scholarship Fund will award one $1,000 scholarship. Each scholarship is renewable for three consecutive years thereafter providing the winner maintains satisfactory grades.
To be eligible, applicant must be the son, daughter or legally adopted child of a letter carrier NALCmember in good standing-active, retired or deceased. Stepchildren and grandchildren are eligible if they live with the letter carrier in a regular parent-child relationship. All applicants must take the SAT or ACT in either their junior or senior year. For more information, go to www.nalc.org or the current issue of the postal record.
Branch 1111 News November 2019 Carrier Reporting Requirements By Julie McCormick, Fourth Vice President I have recently seen an increase in discipline in my areas for carriers working “unauthorized overtime”. The union has been successful in fighting this discipline and having it thrown out, I just wanted to reiterate some of the reporting requirements for letter carriers. For some of you this may not be news to you, but this should be especially useful to our brand new employees who are still navigating the murky waters of being a new letter carrier. M-41 Section 131.41 and 131.42 requires carriers to verbally inform your supervisor and/or manager when you believe you cannot carry all the mail distributed to your route in eight hours or within your normal schedule. This is not an option. Anytime you are of the opinion that you cannot finish your assignment within 8 hours, you must notify management. M-39 Section 122.33 requires your supervisor to provide you with a PS Form 3996 when you request it. When you fill out your 3996 for your own assignment in the morning, it is important to fill it out completely. In Section “J” of the 3996, this is where you write down the reasons why you cannot complete your assignment within eight hours. Generalization such as “heavy volume, heavy parcels, route overburdened, etc.” are not acceptable reasons. Please see our Branch website at www.branch1111.org under the tab “carrier resources” you fill see a form that lists reasons you can use to write in section “J” on your 3996. As we all know, yoursupervisor will either approve all your time, some of your time, or none of your time. Either way, do not argue with management, it will not help, just say you will do your best and ask them what they would like you to do if you are not able to deliver the mail in the allotted time. Always ask for a completed copy of your 3996. After submitting it to management, let your shop steward know immediately if they refuse your request. We get paid to deliver the mail and not make decisions. Put the decision back on management! During the course of your day, if you are still of the opinion you will be unable to complete your assignment within eight hours, call your supervisor at your usual afternoon reporting times (every office is different but follow local instructions).
Let your supervisor know how long you believe it will take you to finish your assignment. Ask whether they want you to bring back the mail or finish the route. If your supervisor refuses to tell you what to do with the remaining mail or if you are unable to finish your assigned duties in the amount of time your originally thought, return to the office in the allotted time and ask for further instructions. Follow whatever instructions your supervisor gives you. If you have additional issues, please contact your local Shop Steward or Full-Time Officer. I would like to remind all of our members that we have a Branch website! The link again is www.branch1111.org. Please check it out, as it contains upcoming Branch events, news, information, etc. There are sections of the website dedicated to local shop stewards, the NALC Health Benefit Plan, Branch events, and much more. We are also starting to upload the monthly newspaper on the website as well! So not only will there be a hard copy mailed to members, it will also be available anytime digitally at your fingertips! I hope all of you have an excellent and safe Thanksgiving!
FTOs Francisco Cabrera and Julie McCormick greet new CCAs Frank Garibay of Brentwood and Tiffany Miller of Oakland Laurel Station
Branch 1111 News November 2019 USPS Awards Zebra Technologies Scanner Contract Worth $570 Million LINCOLNSHIRE, Illinois Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA) last month announced that the United States Postal Service (USPS) awarded the Company an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to supplyTC77 touch computersto scan, track and trace packages across its carrier network.
The USPS will start deploying 300,000 TC77 mobile devices as its next-generation Mobile Delivery Device in the first half of 2020. Crains Chicago Business reportsthe contract is worth $570 million. Zebra’s Android ™ based TC77 mobile computers will help the USPS optimize operations in the on-demand economy while providing customers with the speed, accuracy and realtime tracking they expect. The ultra-rugged TC77 features Zebra’sMobility DNAsuite of software tools that increase worker productivity, simplify management and strengthen the security of Zebra’s Android-based, enterprise-class computers. Zebra will also provide accessories, software, help desk support, repairs, maintenance, and software development. “We are honored to work with the world’s largest postal service and are excited to provide our innovative mobile technology, services and support to the USPS and its customers,” said Anders Gustafsson, CEO, Zebra Technologies. “We look forward to building on our relationship with the USPS and providing a performance edge to its letter carriers.”
KEY TAKEAWAYS The USPS awarded Zebra an IDIQ contract to provide 300,000 next-generation Mobile Delivery Devices. Starting in the first half of 2020, USPS will use the Zebra TC77 touch computer to scan, track and trace packages across its delivery network and provide real-time information to its customers. The mobile devices will help the USPS’ letter carriers as it expands its package delivery products and services. One Way to Honor Vets? Protect the Postal Service Now I lead the Detroit Area Local for the American Postal Workers Union. Our 1,500 members include many veterans, some of whom I served with myself. Across the country, nearly113,000 veteransnow serve as postal workers. With former military members accounting for over18 percent of our workforce, the Postal Service employs vets at three times their share of the national workforce. Why? For one thing, military values like hard work, showing up on time, and taking pride in your work set you up perfectly for postal jobs.
For another, USPS gives veterans like myselfpreferential hiring treatment. Disabled vets, like many I work with, get special consideration too. And once they get here, they getgenerous medical leave and benefits, including wounded warriors leave, among other hard-earned benefits won by our union. Unfortunately, these secure jobs for veterans are now under attack.
A White House report has called for selling offthe public mail serviceto private, for-profit corporations. And aTrump administrationtask force has called for slashing postal jobs and services for customers. In particular, they want to eliminate our collective bargaining rights, which would jeopardize all those benefits we’ve won for veterans and other employees. They also want to cut delivery days, close local post offices, and raise prices, which would hurt customers. Instead of slashing and burning the USPS, we need to be expanding and strengthening it.
One idea is to let post offices expand into low-cost financial services. Veterans arefour times more likelythan the national average to use payday lenders for short-term loans, which typically charge exorbitant interest rates.
But if post offices could offer affordable and reliable check cashing, ATM, bill payment, and money transfer services, we could generate all kinds of new revenue — while protecting vets and their communities from predatory lenders.
From discounting care packages to employing disabled veterans, our Postal Service plays an important part in the lives of our service members. USPS does good by Americans who’ve dedicated a portion of their lives to armed service, and by the millions of Americans who rely on them.
I hope you’ll join me in applauding these veterans — and the Postal Service. Let’s build the USPS up, not tear it down. By Keith Combs
12 I’m a veteran from a family of veterans. After serving in the Marine Corps, I got a good-paying postal job that put me on a solid path to financial security.
Keith Combs is a 30-year postal worker and president ofthe Detroit District Area Local of the American Postal Workers Union. This op-ed was distributed by OtherWords.org
Branch 1111 News November 2019 NALC Branch 1111 Balance Sheet As of September 30,2019 LIABILITIES & EQUITY Total Liabilities 1,488.75 Net Revenue 39,993.82 3900 Unrestricted Net Assets 944,258.86 Equity $982,252.68 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY $983,741.43
ASSETS
Current Assets
Bank Accounts 100 -Petty Cash 128.30 126 PPCU-50 76,755.77 Mechanics Bank Accounts 113,432.30 PPCU-Acct 70 25,603.57 United Bank Accounts 333,868.93 Total Bank Accounts $549,788.87
Other Current Assets
Total Current Other Assets $848,804.56 Total Current Assets $1,398,593.43 Fixed Assets 189 -Accumulated Depreciation -112,256.57 190 -Accum Deprec -Furn./Eq. -68,743.00 191 -Accum Deprec -Computer Eq. -11,561.00 192 -Accum Deprec -Copier -6,896.60 193 -Accum Deprec -Building/Improv-153,573.66 197 -AccumDeprec -Storage Shed -430.00 198 -Accum Deprec –Prior -61,391.17 Total Fixed Assets $-414,852.00 TOTAL ASSETS $983,741.43
Oakland Civic Center retiree Glenn Law joining the last punch bunch
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