City Carrier Assistant Retirement Plan

         City Carrier Assistant Retirement Plan         
                                              

       I would recommend that everyone take advantage of this plan. Once you make regular you can transfer the plan to a TSP with no fee. I am working on this transition now and will update anyone on the progress. Again, don't forget the purpose of this blog and continue to motivate others to bring this Buy Back Option up at your local union meetings. Also I have attached a youtube video to inform you more on the plan. Good luck on all of your goals.

Here is the link below:
http://www.nalc.org/member-benefits/mutual-benefit-association/mba-brochures-applications-and-forms/body/CityCarrierAss.pdf

City Carrier Assistant Makes Regular

 

                              HELLO FELLOW CARRIERS



 I am a City Carrier from Branch 1630. I am a former Temporary Relief Carrier (TRC),  Rural Carrier Associate (RCA), a former Transitional Employee (TE), a former City Carrier Assistant (CCA) and I just made Unassigned Regular this Saturday September 19. So all together, I have given the Postal Service almost seven years of my life. I am a part of the NALC and hold several positions in my local branch. My goal for starting this blog is to get all carriers involved whether you are CCA or Regular to push the City Carrier Assistant Buy Back Option. The California State Association of Letter Carriers were the first that I have seen to bring this to the forefront. I believe that all former TE/CCA's could appreciate the opportunity to get the time that they have invested with the Postal Service added to their retirement. The transition from TE to CCA was a difficult bout for everyone in that position. A 27% decrease in pay and no guarantee when you would get a career position. I was also in the United States Air Force before and I feel that if we can buy our military time back we should be able to buy back the time we put in the USPS. If you scroll down to the first posting of this blog, you will see the City Carrier Assistant Buy Back Option that I plan on presenting at my regional convention. The main goal is to get this plan in circulation before the contract negotiations and the NALC National Convention in 2016. I will post a weekly blog on my steps into the career position, the transition for not doing any overtime, having two days off a week, transferring my CCA retirement plan to Thrift Savings, and just the relief of being regular. Feel free to bring this up at your next local union meeting and get involved with the process. Until then, be safe and keep your dog spray near!

City Carrier Assistant Rights

                                            



Here is the website for the rights on the NALC webpage.


       http://www.nalc.org/member-benefits/body/cca_rights_and_benefits.pdf

City Carrier Assistant Job

                            The City Carrier Assistant Job

                                 

CCA / Non – Career Buy Back Option

 

                                

CCA / Non – Career Buy Back Option


Whereas: The law creating the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) does not allow Letter Carriers to buy back non-career Postal Service or federal Government service time if it was served on or after January 1, 1989, and

Whereas: The Postal Service is moving more toward the hiring of city carrier assistants (CCAs) who are
not allowed to make a deposit into any retirement system, and

Whereas: These CCA letter carriers may invest many years with the Postal Service, and

Whereas: The CCA and other letter carriers who have served in a non-career capacity in the Postal Service or another Federal government agency (non-deduction service) would benefit from being allowed to buy back their time with the Postal Service and/or the federal government so they could have credit toward their retirement, therefore be it

Resolved: that if these CCAs become Career Employees, they will be immediately allowed to buy back all service time with the Postal Service, and that CCAs and all letter carriers who have served as TE’s, casuals, or any other temporary carrier capacity, who become Career Employees and current career Letter Carriers will be immediately allowed to buy back all non-deduction service time with the Postal Service and/or another Federal Government agency.



Submitted by the City Carrier Assistants of Branch 1630.