{"id":2590,"date":"2018-02-16T20:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T20:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2018-02-26T20:36:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T20:36:34","slug":"first-cola-increase-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/?p=2590","title":{"rendered":"First COLA Increase of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In accordance with the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement, career employees represented by the APWU will receive a\u00a0<strong>25 cent per hour<\/strong>\u00a0cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), effective March 3. The increase is the result of a rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W). It will appear in paychecks dated\u00a0<strong>March 23, 2018 (Pay Period 06-2018)<\/strong>,\u00a0and will total\u00a0<strong>$520.00 per year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The COLAs are in addition to general wage increases.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sixth cost-of-living increase under the 2015-2018 contract:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$0.00 The first COLA would have been effective Sept. 5, 2015<\/li>\n<li>$0.00 The second COLA would have been effective March 5, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>$21.00 The third COLA was effective Sept. 3, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>$333.00 The fourth COLA was effective March 18, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>$270.00 The fifth COLA increase effective Sept. 2, 2017.<\/li>\n<li class=\"last\">$520.00 The sixth COLA effective March 3, 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The COLAs received so-far during the 2015-2018 CBA will total $1,144 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Postal Support Employees (PSEs) do not receive cost-of-living increases, but have five general wage increases under the 2015-2018 contract. On Nov. 25, 2017, PSEs received a pay increase of 2.3 percent and will receive a 21-cent raise on May 26, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In accordance with the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement, career employees represented by the APWU will receive a\u00a025 cent per hour\u00a0cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), effective March 3. The increase is the result of a rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W). It will appear in paychecks dated\u00a0March 23, 2018 (Pay Period 06-2018),\u00a0and will total\u00a0$520.00 per year. The COLAs are in addition to general wage increases. This is the sixth cost-of-living increase under the 2015-2018 contract: $0.00 The [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}