National Association of Letter Carriers

“Membership shall be ------------------- (a) regular branch members who shall be nonsupervisory employees in the Postal Service, and regular branch members who the Executive Council has determined were unjustly separated from the Postal Service, retirees from that Service who were regular members of the NALC when they retired, and persons leaving the Service with coverage under Office of Workers Compensation Programs (OWCP). Such retirees, OWCP departees, and non-letter carrier regular members shall have no voice or vote in the branch, in any matter pertaining to the ratification of a national working agreement, local memorandum of understanding or proposed work stoppage; (b) present members of existing Federal Branches may retain their membership; (c) present members who have left the Postal Service, or have been temporarily or permanently promoted to supervisory status, may retain their membership but shall be members only for the purpose of membership in the NALC Life Insurance Plan and/or the NALC Health Benefit Plan. These members shall have no voice or vote in any of the affairs of such Branch, except they shall have a voice and vote at the Branch level upon matters appertaining to the NALC Life Insurance Plan, and/or the NALC Health Benefit Plan, if they are a member thereof, and on any proposition to raise dues. These members are not eligible to be candidates for any State Association, Branch, or National office or delegates to any conventions. They may attend only that part of the meeting which concerns them, such as change of dues structure and information concerning Health or Life Insurance.”

“Every four (4) years, nominations for officers of the Union shall be called by the Chairperson of the Convention on the third day (Wednesday) of the Convention. The Chair shall call for nominations from the floor for each national office separately. Any delegate may nominate an eligible member for anyone of the following national offices: President, Executive Vice President, Vice President, Secretary-Treasurer, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, Director of City Delivery, Director of Safety and Health, Director of Life Insurance, Director of Health Benefits, Director of Retired Members, and a three member Board of Trustees. Nominations of fifteen (15) National Business Agents shall be separately by NALC Regions. Only delegates from the appropriate NALC Region may nominate candidates for the position of National Business Agent for such Region. The newly-elected officers shall assume their offices as soon after 45 days from the date of the certification of results by National Election Committee as is practicable. As soon as practicable after the Convention at which nominations for National Officers have been made, the National Secretary-Treasurer shall furnish to the National Election Committee a list of all members eligible to vote. To be so eligible, a member must be in good standing as of June 1 of the election year. There shall be one membership-wide ballot issued in each of the fifteen (15) NALC Regions authorized and established elsewhere in this Constitution reflecting the names of all nominees for the positions of President, Executive Vice President, Vice President, Secretary-Treasurer, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, Director of City Delivery, Director of Safety and Health, Director of Life Insurance, Director of Health Benefits, Director of Retired Members, three members of the Board of Trustees, and the names of all nominees for the position of National Business Agent for one of the fifteen (15) NALC Regions. The National Election Committee shall then be responsible for mailing ballots to all eligible members as soon as possible. All regular members shall be entitled to one vote for each office to be filled. The voter shall indicate their choice for each of the officers by following the procedure established by the National Election Committee as set forth in the ballot instructions. The voter shall then seal the ballot in the smaller envelope, enclose this envelope within the large one, and mail it to the post office box printed on the larger envelope. Write-in votes shall not be valid. No markings shall be made on the ballot or the smaller envelope other than as indicated.”

“Each Branch having twenty (20) or less members shall be entitled to one delegate and one vote in the National Convention. Branches having more than twenty (20) members shall be entitled to one delegate and one vote for each twenty (20) members or fraction thereof. Each State Association shall be Entitled to two Delegates-at-Large. National Officers and Delegates-at-Large shall each be entitled to one vote only. The delegates from any Branch present at the National Convention shall be allowed to cast the whole number of votes to which the Branch is entitled, provided such delegates agree unanimously as to who among them shall cast such vote. In case of disagreement, the delegates in attendance shall be entitled to such number of whole votes as can be divided equally among them each pro rata. The number of members for whom per capita tax is paid to the National Association for the term beginning October 1 prior to each Biennial Convention shall determine the number of votes and delegates to which the Branch is entitled at such Convention.”

“The completed form 990 is reviewed by the organization's secretary-treasurer prior to signature and filing.”

“The salaries for the president, executive vice president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, assistant secretary-treasurer, director of city delivery, director of safety and health, director of life insurance, director of health benefits and director of retired members are set forth in the nalc constitution (accessible on nalc's website), last amended at the august 2024 convention. The constitution states the per annum salary amount, effective date of the amount, provides for future salary adjustments that are made in line with the same percentage given to top grade letter carriers. The trustees are paid an equal sum per year. The selected chairperson of the board is to receive an additional amount per year for their service as chairperson. The trustees are also entitled to future salary adjustments that are made in line with the same percentage given to top grade letter carriers.”

“The organization does not generally make its governing documents and financial statements available to the public; except as may be required under applicable federal law. The nalc constitution is available on nalc's website under union administration.”

“$3,288,224 represents the annual increase in actuarial value of a qualified defined benefit plan, as calculated by the plan actuary. These amounts reported are not actual outlays of compensation.”

“National officer james yates serves as director of life insurance for united states letter carriers mutual benefit association ("mba"). Three trustees and the president of the filing organization are trustees and officers of mba.”

“Amendments to the nalc constitution: ------------------------------------ amend article 2 allow members in good standing who failed to retain membership into retirement to complete form 1189 to be reinstated. Amend article 10 as to removal of officers to clarify that the executive cive president is the highest-ranking officer after the president and that the vice president would be responsible if both the president and executive vice president are charged.”

“$ 9,115,394 health benefit plan postretirement-related changes (147,191,135) reduction in opm special reserve 734,873 union postretirement-related changes 3,825,868 net gain on subsidiary ------------- $(133,515,000) net other change in net assets =============”