{"id":332,"date":"2017-02-15T01:50:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T08:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2021-02-21T17:00:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T00:00:58","slug":"significant-cola-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Significant COLA Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-label\"><strong>Web News Article #:\u00a018-2017<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">02\/15\/2017<\/span> &#8211; <\/span>Career employees represented by the APWU will receive a <strong>16 cent per hour<\/strong> cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) effective March 4, in accordance with the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement (Postal Support Employees are not eligible for cost-of-living increases, but they receive five general wage increases under the 2015-2018 contract). The increase is the result of an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W). The increase will appear in paychecks dated March 24 (Pay Period 06-2017), and will total <strong>$333.00 per year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second cost-of-living increase under the 2015-2018 contract.<\/p>\n<p>APWU COLA benefits \u201cunderscore the importance of collective bargaining rights,\u201d said President Mark Dimondstein. \u201cIt is because APWU members have joined together in a union, and negotiate together, that the contract includes COLA raises based on the CPI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next COLA increase will be based on the July 2017 CPI-W and will be effective in September 2017. Additional COLAs will be based on the January 2018 and July 2018 CPI-W.<\/p>\n<p>The cost-of-living adjustments are in addition to general wage increases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Updated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apwu.org\/resource-types\/pay-scales\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">pay scales<\/span><\/u><\/a> are available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>www.apwu.org<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web News Article #:\u00a018-2017 02\/15\/2017 &#8211; Career employees represented by the APWU will receive a 16 cent per hour cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) effective March 4, in accordance with the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement (Postal Support Employees are not eligible for cost-of-living increases, but they receive five general wage increases under the 2015-2018 contract). The increase is the result of an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W). The increase will appear in paychecks dated March [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":662,"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-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}