James Sauber

Jim Sauber is the Chief of Staff at the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), a position he has held since 2006. He is responsible for coordinating the research, collective bargaining, public policy and legislative activities of the union at the direction of NALC President Fred Rolando and on behalf of the union’s 290,000 members. He joined the staff of the NALC as an economist in 1985 and served as the union’s research director from 1990 to 2006.

He has participated in eight rounds of collective bargaining with the United States Postal Service. He currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Employee Thrift Advisory Council and represents the NALC as an executive committee member of UNI Global Union (UNI), a Swiss-based global trade union federation comprised of hundreds of affiliated postal unions representing four million postal workers around the world. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan (1982) and a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University (1992).