Candidates biographies and accomplishments
“City Letter Carriers deserve to be industry leaders in pay, benefits and working conditions. One Union, one pay scale.”
James D. Henry of Garden Grove, CA Branch 1100 was elected to the office of vice president by acclamation in 2022 at the 72nd Biennial Convention in Chicago.
A Los Angeles native, Henry began his postal career as a letter carrier in Pomona, CA, in 1988. His path to becoming an NALC activist began the same year he was unjustly disciplined and his branch came to his aid, resolving the case in his favor.
Thereafter, I knew I “couldn’t stand by and see letter carriers treated unfairly,” Henry said. “I became a shop steward, and my calling of representing letter carriers began.” His appointment as a steward came only six months after he joined the Postal Service.
CLC CANDIDATE FOR RESIDENT NATIONAL OFFICER KIMETRA SIMPSON-LEWIS
Kimetra Simpson-Lewis known to most as “Kim” is currently the Branch President for Dallas Lone Star Branch 132 and has served in that position for the past 8 years. She began advocating for the rights of letter carriers in 1994 when she became a union steward at the Dallas Northaven Station. Before becoming a branch president, she served as a steward, a Food Drive Coordination and a Trustee for Branch 132, as a full-time Formal A representative for the Dallas Installation, and as an Arbitration Advocate and Dispute Resolution Team member for Region 10. She is a graduate of the Leadership Academy Class #7 and is also an active participant in the Letter Carrier Political Fund.
Kimetra has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Arlington in Business Administration with a minor in accounting. Her foundation is rooted in unionism as she comes from a family of union advocates. Her father was the President of the Laborers’ International Union of North American, Local #648, and her uncle was the Vice-President. It is embedded in her blood to stand for what is fair and what is just. She strongly believes in the Union and in the saying “an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
CLC CANDIDATE FOR NBA REGION 6
WALTER MCGREGORY
I began my USPS career in July 2000 in Westland, Michigan, a large multi-station installation, and worked in the Wayne office as a PTF. I immediately joined the NALC and became active in the union, becoming an alternate steward in Branch 2184 after four months. I come from a union household; my father worked for Dodge Ram Truck in Warren, MI and belonged to UAW.
I began my USPS career in July 2000 in Westland, Michigan, a large multi-station installation, and worked in the Wayne office as a PTF. I immediately joined the NALC and became active in the union, becoming an alternate steward in Branch 2184 after four months. I come from a union household; my father worked for Dodge Ram Truck in Warren, MI and belonged to UAW.
My Branch is the second largest in NALC Region 6 (Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan). I have also served as an arbitration advocate for region 6 since 2012, and have been assigned arbitrations outside of our region at the request of NALC Headquarters. I have attended every National Convention since 2004. I have been mentored by longtime Branch 2184 activist Joe Golonka as well as by many other NALC leaders since day one of my NALC career, and I have the leadership skills and experience to be your next National Business Agent.
When asked why I became a NALC activist, this is my response: “I stepped up because I was sick and tired of seeing my co-workers being bullied by management. I love fighting for those who do not know how or will not fight postal management’s abuse.” If you are tired of being overlooked because you are from a small branch or because you are not in the “liked crowd,” then join me in turning Region 6 back over to ALL of our NALC brothers and sisters. You will always know that your regional office fights for you!
My wife Jackie is a letter carrier and the Executive Vice President within my branch and our son Ananias is also a letter carrier within my home installation Wayne/Westland/Canton, serving as a shop steward and NALC activist.