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National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC)

National Association of Letter Carriers

NALC

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100 INDIANA AVE N.W.
WASHINGTON, DC 20001

NALC's Locals and Other Affiliated Organizations

UnionUnit Name/LocationMembers
National Association of Letter Carriers National Headquarters
Washington, DC		277,774
National Association of Letter Carriers State Association Ca State Assn of Letter Carriers-Br
San Diego, CA		37,362
National Association of Letter Carriers State Association New York
New York, NY		32,000
National Association of Letter Carriers State Association Illinois
Chicago, IL		16,700
National Association of Letter Carriers State Association Florida
Sarasota, FL		16,213
National Association of Letter Carriers State Association Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA		13,844
National Association of Letter Carriers State Association Ohio
Akron, OH		13,300
National Association of Letter Carriers State Association Texas
Bastrop, TX		12,809
National Association of Letter Carriers State Association Michigan
Brighton, MI		10,437
National Association of Letter Carriers State Association Massachusetts
Abington, MA		10,088
» See All Locals and Other Affiliated Organizations

Source: Office of Labor-Management Standards

Year Covered: 2011 Last Updated: March 20th, 2011

Financial Information

The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), which is enforced by the Office of Labor-Management Standards, requires labor unions to file annual reports detailing their operations. Contained in those reports are breakdowns of each union's spending, income and other financial information.

Total Assets Trend

Basic Financials

  • Total Assets?: $348,729,524.00
  • Total Liabilities?: $108,556,114.00
  • Total Income?: $264,570,011.00
  • Total Spent?: $270,277,718.00

» See Historical Financial Information

Assets (Change from previous report)

  • Cash?: $1,696,669.00 (-77.1%)
  • Accounts Receivable?: $6,116,476.00 (+23.0%)
  • Investments?: $218,228,925.00 (+62.4%)
  • Fixed Assets?: $1,762,933.00 (+62.4%)
  • Treasury Securities?: $42,410,109.00 (-61.2%)
  • Other Assets?: $78,504,271.00 (+195.9%)
  • Loans Receivable?: $10,141.00 (-41.9%)

Liabilities

Income

  • Dues?: $0.00
  • Per Person Tax?: $41,467,213.00
  • Investments?: $170,459,839.00
  • Supplies?: $314,304.00
  • Loan Repayment?: $0.00
  • Interest?: $7,934,484.00
  • Dividends?: $1,398,067.00
  • Rents?: $1,182,884.00
  • Fees and Fines?: $2,000.00
  • Loans Obtained?: $0.00
  • Other Receipts?: $1,356,134.00
  • Affiliates?: $0.00
  • Members?: $40,444,086.00
  • Reinvestments?: $11,000.00
  • All Others?: $189,381.00

Source: Office of Labor Management Standards

Year Covered: 2011 Last Updated: March 20th, 2011

Spending

The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) requires unions to report how they spent their money in a number of categories. For the first five, OLMS requires unions to provide detailed information on any recipient that received more than $5,000 per year.

Total Spent in 2011: $270,277,718.00

Search All Spending

Spending Breakdown

  • Representational?: $14,326,874.00 (5.30%)
  • Political Activities and Lobbying?: $2,282,676.00 (0.84%)
  • Contributions, Gifts, and Grants?: $690,770.00 (0.26%)
  • General Overhead?: $7,475,733.00 (2.77%)
  • Union Administration?: $8,855,677.00 (3.28%)
  • Strike Benefits?: $0.00 (0.00%)
  • To Union Officers?: $2,649,141.00 (0.98%)
  • To Union Employees?: $7,930,700.00 (2.93%)
  • Education?: $0.00 (0.00%)
  • Fees?: $0.00 (0.00%)

Source: Office of Labor Management Standards

Year Covered: 2011 Last Updated: March 20th, 2011

Membership

Total Members: 277,774

Membership Trend



YearMembers
2002297,150
2003294,315
2004290,109
2005292,221
2006289,119
2007287,036
2008293,605
2009284,047
2010285,592
2011277,774

Income per Member: $952.46

Dues

7.61 per bi-weekly

Source: Office of Labor Management Standards

Year Covered: 2011 Last Updated: March 20th, 2011

Officers and Employees

  • Average Total Compensation: $67,167.23
  • Total Employees: 223
  • Employees Making more than $75,000: 74

Top Ten Highest Paid Leaders

NameTitleTotal Compensation
$1,596,387.00
FREDRIC ROLANDOPRESIDENT$222,336.00
JANE BROENDELSECRETARY-TREASURER$181,865.00
GEORGE MIGNOSIVICE PRESIDENT$177,846.00
NICOLE RHINEASST. SECRETARY TREASURER$176,021.00
ERNEST KIRKLANDDIRECTOR RETIRED MEMBERS$175,171.00
DALE HARTDIRECTOR CITY DELIVERY$156,327.00
GARY MULLINSEXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT$152,645.00
MANUEL PERALTA JRDIRECTOR SAFETY & HEALTH$151,937.00
JAMES SAUBERCHIEF OF STAFF$148,817.00

» See All Employees' Compensation and Salary History

Source: Office of Labor Management Standards

Year Covered: 2011 Last Updated: March 20th, 2011

Political Activities

FEC

Overall Contributions

Democrats: $9,534,980.00 (0.8882)
Republicans: $1,133,123.00 (0.1055)

NALC's Political Action Committees

Political Action CommitteeTotal Contributed
National Assn of Letter Carriers$9,734,632.00
National Assn of Letter Carriers$662,761.00
Illinois State Letter Carriers Assn$210,315.00
Letter Carriers Local 9$66,000.00
Letter Carriers Local 343$38,396.00
Letter Carriers Local 193$23,500.00

Source: Federal Elections Commission by way of the Center for Responsive Politics

Last Updated: March 1st, 2011

State-level Political Operations

Democrats: $326,055.00
Republicans: $335.00

Source: National Institute on Money in State Politics by way of Transparency Data.

Last Updated: March 1st, 2011

Lobbying

Federal Lobbying

Total Spent Lobbying: $3,290,000.00

Lobbying Expenditures Trend

NALC's Major Issues

IssueTotal Spent Lobbying
Retirement$2,810,000.00
Health Issues$2,730,000.00
Government Issues$2,570,000.00
Fed Budget & Appropriations$2,490,000.00
Labor, Antitrust & Workplace$2,490,000.00
Postal$2,170,000.00
Veterans Affairs$2,010,000.00
Medicare & Medicaid$1,930,000.00
Apparel, Clothing, & Textiles$800,000.00
Banking$640,000.00

NALC Lobbying Groups

ClientTotal Spent Lobbying
National Assn of Letter Carriers$3,290,000.00

Source: Center for Responsive Politics

Last Updated: March 1st, 2011

Crime, Corruption, and Racketeering

Corruption and Embezzlement Charges

The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) conducts investigations to determine if violations of the Labor-Management Relations and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) provisions have occurred.

Investigations are initiated based on various sources such as complaints from union members; information developed by OLMS as a result of reviewing reports filed; information developed during an OLMS audit of a union’s books and records; and information obtained from other government agencies. Investigations may involve civil matters (such as an election of union officers) or criminal matters (such as embezzlement of union funds).

Type of Criminal ActivityNumber of Incidents
1
Criminal Charges5
Embezzlement Charges13
Guilty Pleas7
Indictments2
Officials Sentenced4

Some incidents may be accounted for in multiple categories.

Source: Office of Labor-Management Standards

Last Updated: March 1st, 2011

Financial Audits

The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) has responsibility under the Labor-Management Relations and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) to conduct audits to determine if unions are complying with the law.

OLMS uses a streamlined audit approach called the Compliance Audit Program (CAP) to audit local unions which utilizes specialized records review and investigative techniques to verify LMRDA compliance.

LocalViolationsView Audit
NALC Local 14279Full Audit Text
NALC Local 3258Full Audit Text
NALC Local 1062Full Audit Text
NALC Local State of Pennsylvania1Full Audit Text
NALC Local 374511Full Audit Text
NALC Local 47841Full Audit Text
NALC Local 152Full Audit Text
NALC Local 332Full Audit Text
NALC Local 442Full Audit Text
NALC Local 2122Full Audit Text
NALC Local 47393Full Audit Text
NALC Local BR 4394Full Audit Text
NALC Local 43197Full Audit Text
NALC Local 22792Full Audit Text
NALC Local 27301Full Audit Text
NALC Local 403Full Audit Text
NALC Local 3976Full Audit Text
NALC Local 627Full Audit Text
NALC Local 6241Full Audit Text
NALC Local 41Full Audit Text
NALC Local 57Full Audit Text
NALC Local 753Full Audit Text
NALC Local 531Full Audit Text
NALC Local Full Audit Text
NALC Local 309Full Audit Text
NALC Local 3677Full Audit Text
NALC Local 2038Full Audit Text
NALC Local 3825Full Audit Text
NALC Local 14Full Audit Text
NALC Local 4800Full Audit Text
NALC Local 1003Full Audit Text
NALC Local 142Full Audit Text
NALC Local 534Full Audit Text
NALC Local 2420Full Audit Text
NALC Local 419Full Audit Text
NALC Local 3071Full Audit Text

Source: Office of Labor-Management Standards

Last Updated: January 1st, 2010

Union Decertifications

Unionized employees can elect to revoke a union's right to represent them through a process called a decertification. In order to decertify a union, a majority of the unionized employees must vote to remove the union in an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

Total Decertification Petitions: 1

Recent Decertification Petitions

Case NumberName/UnionDate Filed
08-RD-01837Legal Aid Society of Lorain County , Inc.
Local 2320 United Legal Workers of Lorain County, National Organizatin of Legal Services Workers		October 4th, 1999

» See All Decertifications

Source: National Labor Relations Board; Case Activity Tracking System

Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Allegations

Unionized employees, business owners, managers, and others often bring labor law charges against unions. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) oversees the porcess of determining if the union violated the National Labor Relations Act.

AllegationCases Filed
Duty of Fair Representation1240
Other Allegations246
Coercive Statements38
Harassment25
Disparagement of Employee12
Threatening Statements11
Union Security Related (including Beck)9
Resignation of Membership (Patternmakers)7
Denial of Access7
Refusal to Furnish Information4
Union Security Related3
All Allegations2
Unknown2
Rules: Coercive2
Refusal to Bargain (Succeeding Contract)1
Requiring Payments other than dues1
Surveillance1
Hiring Hall Related1
Lawsuits1
Violence/Assaults1

Please notes a single case may fall into multiple allegation categories.

Source: National Labor Relations Board; Case Activity Tracking System

Pensions

Associated Pension Funds

These pension funds are tied to the union according to their name only. There is no formal system for identifying all pension funds associated with a union. As a result, some of these pension fund may not be associated with the union.

Pension Name/SponsorMembersFunding Percentage
Massachusetts Service Employees Pension Fund
Massachusetts Service Employees Pension Fund		12,232
Massachusetts Laborers Pension Fund
Board of Trustees of Mass. Laborers Pension Fund		17,10371
Retirement Plan for Hourly Employees of Regalite Plastics Corporation at Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts
Regalite Plastics Corporation		87

Source: Internal Revenue Service.