NALC, other postal unions, the Postal Service three postal supervisors' organizations created and signed the Joint Statement on Violence and Behavior in the Workplace in February 1992. They drafted the statement at a meeting of NALC, other postal unions, USPS and three postal supervisors' organizations held in the wake of tragic shootings of postal workers in Royal Oak, Michigan in November 1991.

In the statement, the organizations committed to dignity, respect and fairness for all postal employees as a fundamental human right. They also promised to rid the Postal Service of the harassing, intimidating and abusive behavior that can lead to workplace violence. They also promised to deny rewards to those who violated that right and to remove repeat offenders from the Postal Service.

Six months later the same parties issued a second Joint Statement, committing to continue their dialogue and pursue the first statement's mandate of a safer, more harmonious and productive workplace.

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