The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 860 Annual Retirement Banquet

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 860 held their Annual Retirement Banquet at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa on Saturday, July 14, 2012. The following retired members, (photo above) Bottom row L/R - William Simmons, Letter Carrier with 22 years, Tom Ihara, Herbert Nakagawa, Clarence Sasaki, Gold Card members with 50 years service, and Warren Shimizu, Letter Carrier with 28 years. Top row L/R - Howard Komine, NALC President Branch 860, Michelle Luke, awarded the Shop Steward of the Year, Maurice Collette, awarded the Sam Hipa Award and Christopher Jackson, NALC Region 1 National Business Agent. Other retirees not present, Robert Choy, Bert Hamano, Robin Lundquist, Ronald Matsuo, Jean Orian and Sigrid Tokuda.


The guests in attendance were Frank Santos, USPS Honolulu District Manager; Greg Kawasaki, Manager of Post Office Operations; Christopher Jackson, NALC Region 1 National Business Agent; Terry Kaolulo, President of the Hawaii State Association of Letter Carriers; Bruce McDowell, NALC Branch 860 Food Drive Coordinator; Mike Kajiwara, Director of Product Donations - Hawaii FoodBank; Glenn Takara, Hawaii State Vice President; Chuck Lum, President NAPS 214 and Laurie Ramelb, Vice President NAPS 214. 


Bruce McDowell NALC Branch 860. (photo right) This year was Bruce McDowell's last year as the NALC Branch 860 Food Drive Coordinator in Hawaii.  He was presented a gift by Paula Miller, Region 1 NALC Food Drive Coordinator for his hard work for the food bank in Hawaii, Guam and America Samoa. This year, letter carriers throughout the nation collected 70.5 million pounds of food to help provide food to fifty million Americans across the country. Pictured with Bruce McDowell is Mike Kajiwara, Director of Product Donations, Hawaii FoodBank, Inc.


Christopher Jackson, Region 1 National Business Agent just wanted to add that we have to continue to make our company a success by continuing to push Customer Connect, raising the revenue and yes, our first class volume has dropped because of internet and our competitors. Today we have raised over 1.5 billion dollars in Customer Connect and this coming election in November is very important.  We need to elect the leaders who are going to vote for our company to allow us to keep six days delivery, keep our health benefits and our pay that we have now. The Postal Service is making million of dollars. If we were not paying into the pre-funding 5.5 billion dollars a year, we wouldn't be in this situation right now.  All congress need to do is allow us to stop paying into that fund and the Postal Service will get back on track and we can focus and give the service to the american people So don't forget to vote and to all the retirees, god bless and have a nice evening. Photos of this event, "click here."