Career APWU members will receive a $937 annual increase in pay in September, APWU President Cliff Guffey has announced. “This substantial raise is the result of the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement, which preserved cost-of-living adjustments for our members,” he said.

“Cost-of-living increases are an important part of our pay package,” Guffey noted. “Combined with percentage pay raises, they help our members achieve financial security.”

The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will be effective Sept. 7 and will be reflected in Sept. 27 paychecks. The raise amounts to $36.04 per pay period and reflects increases in the cost-of-living from January to July 2012, and from January to July 2013.

The September COLA will be the second this year. The first increase, in March, totaled $207.
Additional cost-of-living adjustments will be made in March 2014, September 2014 and March 2015.

In additon to the COLA, APWU members also will receive pay increases of 1.5 percent effective Nov. 16, 2013, and 1 percent effective Nov. 15, 2014. A 1 percent across-the-board pay increase was effective Nov. 17, 2012.

Postal Support Employees (PSEs), who are not eligible for COLAs, will receive additional raises of 2.5 percent effective Nov. 16, 2013, and 2.5 percent effective Nov. 15, 2014. PSEs received an across-the-board increase of 2 percent on Nov. 17, 2012.

Updated pay scales are available at www.apwu.org. Printed copies, showing the September COLA and the November across-the-board raise, will be included in the November-December edition of The American Postal Worker magazine.