Latest / United We Scan / Time for New Leadership

Transcript

Time for New Leadership · United We Scan

0:17
Welcome to the United We Scan Podcast, the podcast by rural
0:21
carriers. For rural carriers, the views
0:24
expressed in this podcast do not reflect the views or opinions of
0:29
the United States Postal Service or the National Rural Letter
0:32
Carriers Association. We ask that you please consult
0:35
your assigned union representative for guidance in
0:38
your local area. Make sure you like this podcast,
0:43
share with your fellow rural carriers, and subscribe to be
0:46
notified each time a new episode is uploaded.
0:50
Please rate this podcast five stars where applicable, and
0:53
leave a comment or question for us below.
0:56
Thank you. Now here are the hosts of the
1:00
United We Scan Podcast. Welcome back, everybody.
1:07
Episode 63. Kristen's now with us.
1:11
To begin with, she's traveling back home from family
1:16
engagement, but she'll be joining us soon.
1:19
So right now it's just me, Bill, and Toasty.
1:23
So how you doing this week, Bill?
1:26
I'm I'm doing fine. I'm antsy.
1:29
I I had a leg operation on Tuesday to clear a a calcium
1:33
deposit in my leg. So I am antsy to get back to
1:36
work. Nothing worse than a bill cooped
1:39
up for five days. And I I I'm just, you know,
1:43
after after seeing some of our posts on the the social media as
1:48
well as accounts coming out of my office, I'm ready to get back
1:52
to work and and stir the pot. I hear that, I hear that.
1:59
How was your week toasty? I've been drowning in political
2:03
mail unfortunately when the route that I'm on has a dueling
2:08
Republican candidates so one didn't vote the way that the
2:12
governor wanted him to vote. So been dealing with that all
2:15
week and of course those come in WSH.
2:18
So been trying to keep up with those.
2:21
Count all of that. I almost full coverage almost
2:24
every day with something and getting done around 8 hours.
2:29
A little bit over, but other than that it's not too bad.
2:33
Weather's getting nice around here, so can't complain about
2:37
that. That's awesome.
2:40
And how was your week, Krista? Well, I just dropped my daughter
2:46
and the stuff off at home and I'm on way to go pick up my dog
2:49
right now. But other than that my my week
2:53
was not too bad. I had my route Monday.
2:58
Tuesday I was supposed to be trained in the new RCA but that
3:02
got pushed to Wednesday, Thursday instead.
3:05
So I ran my route actually Tuesday, Monday and Tuesday and
3:09
Wednesday We did the first day of OJT for the third new sub
3:14
Thursday and I again had let them know about that poor LLV
3:18
with transmission issues on Wednesday, Thursday we were
3:23
about 15 minutes from the end of the row and the transmission
3:26
completely went on us. And I've been telling them that
3:30
for the last month and a half, two months, that that sucker's
3:33
going to go down on me while I'm training.
3:36
And it did. Well, at least you got to teach
3:41
them about owe time and green card time.
3:45
Well-being broken down with a government vehicle.
3:49
Yes, I did. It was about 90 minutes of O
3:52
time for me. Yeah, it was just crazy.
3:55
We waited as that. It was about an hour and a half
3:58
before they were going to have tow company tow one of the other
4:02
LLVS out there and pick that one up and an hour into waiting I'm
4:06
calling going what's going on? And at that point they decided
4:11
then to send somebody else out with the LLV and the supervisor
4:15
came out to pick them up and called the tow company and told
4:19
them just to come pick the the LLV up.
4:21
And so yeah, that's about how that went.
4:29
And then I was off. I yeah.
4:31
And then I was off on Friday and Saturday and of course my annual
4:38
tattoo, Motor City Tattoo Expo. And my bonus son was also in the
4:46
state wrestling championships down at Ford Field and it was a
4:51
good weekend all around. We knew have a new state champ
4:55
in the household, so for Division Two, he completed his
5:00
goal. Other than that, you know, that
5:04
was my week wrapping up. That's awesome.
5:08
Yeah, my week was my week was normal for me in the post
5:13
office. Usual rigmarole and things like
5:16
that. And then this weekend, Saturday,
5:19
I spent several hours just writing up resolutions.
5:23
I've already gotten 9 resolutions written for the next
5:27
National Convention and working on more as I go along.
5:31
Most of mine right now that I was working on start with the
5:34
constitution and just simple things that affect rural
5:37
carriers that the union can fix without having it.
5:41
So binding resolutions and next next week or some other time I'm
5:46
going to start working on non binding resolutions or
5:49
contractual changes, things that require the post office to agree
5:53
to. So those are the things that I'm
5:55
working on. And then today I went and worked
5:58
worked on the model railroad because he had a work session on
6:02
it to fix things and find issues and stuff like that.
6:05
You know, it's a never ending process there.
6:07
And then I did do a breakdown of Don Masten's latest article from
6:14
the desk of the NRLCA president, and he literally just backed up
6:20
everything that I wrote about that happened at SWAC.
6:25
And it was amazing to think that this man thought that he could
6:29
turn around and tell me to make sure I quoted him correctly.
6:34
And then I turned around and quoted him correctly from his
6:37
own article in my breakdown. And I spread it around through a
6:40
lot of different social media sites.
6:42
So if you're on there, check them out, including the United
6:45
We Scan podcast group. So you can check that out too in
6:50
there. So it's #shameless plug, but I
6:56
do have a couple of announcements to make.
6:59
The first one is of course being sure, say, where you're getting
7:04
your information from. You research it and make sure it
7:08
is factually accurate, because there are a lot of sources out
7:13
there, even union sources, that give inaccurate information.
7:20
So you have to make sure you get it from the actual information
7:25
sources like the Union page or sources that take it directly
7:31
from the Union and give it out for people to get.
7:36
Don't just trust that one person's going to give you the
7:39
right answer. Make sure you do your research
7:43
because even union officials get things wrong.
7:49
And my second announcement is I have been getting reports that
7:55
the Atlanta area is having issues with their processing
8:00
plants that Mail's not going out, Radar reports are not
8:05
getting updated with DPS information or any mail going
8:09
out. So if you're in those areas, get
8:12
a hold of us, let us know what's going on.
8:15
We also have people that have been moved into S&D CS just
8:19
before or during this mini mail survey get in touch with us.
8:23
We want to know what's going on in those places.
8:24
We want to know the issues, what's good, what's bad,
8:28
everything that's going on. So get a hold of us, message us
8:31
on the Facebook page. Messes us personally.
8:34
Let us know what you got going on, because as it stands, the
8:40
only information that we get is either the information the union
8:45
allows the craft to get or from first hand knowledge from people
8:52
who are actually involved in that.
8:54
And we actually prefer the first hand knowledge over the edited
8:59
and redacted information that the union gives out to us.
9:03
So please, if you're involved in some of this stuff, let us know
9:06
what's going on, give us the actual dealings that are
9:10
happening out there. Because unfortunately, as we've
9:15
noticed, even our union officials don't give us all the
9:20
information that the craft deserves to have.
9:24
Wouldn't you agree, Bill? Oh, hundred percent, 100%.
9:29
And yeah, just a piggyback off of you in regards to our
9:34
president. I have to laugh that, you know,
9:37
almost nine months ago we sat here and talked about the MOU
9:41
being worked into the contract. And here we are with our
9:46
president saying basically, yeah, yeah, we're we're going to
9:51
put it in there. And somewhere along those lines,
9:55
regulars are going to be forced to carry on vacant routes.
10:00
And ladies and gentlemen, that'll be today for
10:04
impeachment. I don't know what articles we
10:07
can invoke there, but there's no way that, yeah, we work too hard
10:13
to be forced to do extra labor. We are not city carrier not
10:18
adding on to the end of our routes.
10:20
We work in evaluated system. We work it efficiently.
10:24
We work at cost efficiently, you know, versus the city carriers.
10:28
And we deserve any time that we can work under our evaluation.
10:32
And then you're going to come back and tell us that, oh, since
10:35
we have an hour, an hour, 15 minutes under our evaluation,
10:38
you can go out and help on another route.
10:42
Let me put this simply, kiss my ass.
10:47
It's not happening when I'm president.
10:51
Never will happen. That will never be part of our
10:55
contract. That regulars could be forced
10:58
help on vacant route. That's not part of our contract.
11:03
That's not part of our our work responsibilities and duties.
11:09
We won't tolerate it. I won't tolerate it.
11:15
And unless we can come up with a new way of hiring quickly and
11:22
expediently and getting new new bodies into the workforce,
11:26
having them trained by people like Kristen, you know, and Oji
11:30
is on on site, Until we get the Academies up and running
11:35
efficiently with all the corrective information they need
11:39
at their disposal, all the equipment they need, like James
11:42
pointed out, they can go out and put these SCCS up with brand new
11:46
equipment. Well, where's the old equipment
11:48
going to? You know, your most of your
11:51
growth is not going to be in these areas, going to be outside
11:54
of these areas. It'll be in truly rural America.
11:59
So what are you doing with all this excess equipment?
12:02
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't ever, ever want to see a day
12:07
where we are going to be forced to work like city carriers.
12:12
We do a great job as a craft getting the product to our
12:18
customers, watching out for our customers, watching out for each
12:22
other. And we're entitled to any time
12:25
we work under evaluation because they're not going to turn around
12:28
and say, oh, by the way you worked over your valuation, let
12:32
us pay you for that. That's not happening.
12:34
That's how the contract reads. If you're over get nothing, if
12:38
you're under, you get paid for the full day.
12:42
And we've worked for that, We've earned it and they're not taking
12:45
it away from us. Yeah, I've been.
12:48
I've been shocked at all the information coming from our
12:54
union and the fact that he is so brazen, to be that honest with
13:02
us, about how he's working with management in this instance and
13:08
how he's working for management in this instance.
13:12
I have yet to see an article where he actually fully defends
13:18
the craft. I've seen him basically tell us
13:24
that world carriers have had it too good or too long.
13:28
We worked too few hours for our pay and things like that.
13:35
Where do you get off saying these things?
13:39
And then you turn around and you have your Director of Steward
13:43
Operations telling their carry their their stewards that they
13:51
can't file grievances on behalf of the craft in contractual
13:55
violations. When Article 15 says you can,
14:01
Article 15 of our own damn contract says that the employee
14:07
or the union can file a grievance, and it doesn't say it
14:13
has to be a class action either. That is in a different
14:16
paragraph, which makes it wholly different to the first part.
14:24
The fact that you are sitting there and you are hamstringing
14:28
your stewards from being able to protect this craft and then
14:33
telling them just settle for language so it can be settled at
14:35
the lowest level. Give management a slap on the
14:38
hand, because management doesn't know any better.
14:42
I'm sorry, since management's not bothering to train the rural
14:46
carriers, why not take that time that you're supposed to be
14:49
spending on the rural carriers and spend it teaching your
14:52
management not to violate the contract?
14:57
How much money they could save by just training the management
15:01
on each contract that they're ahead of.
15:07
Exactly. And and this, this goes back to
15:10
Rex, OK. In in Ron Ronnie's letter of
15:13
October 2022, he said specifically that it was
15:17
management responsibility to train for Rex, not give them a
15:22
CHEAT SHEET, not to give them, you know, the six scam speech,
15:26
but to train the carrier. Find me an office where
15:30
management has actually trained and I'll give you 1000 offices
15:35
that never saw a lick of training.
15:39
All we got was a printed out PowerPoint presentation.
15:41
Yeah. All we got told was 6 scans,
15:46
except when I stood up and started telling everybody about
15:49
all the other scans. I even put on a free training,
15:53
unpaid training for anybody that wanted it because I management,
15:59
my management, who is actually good management, listens to the
16:04
craft, listens to the carriers and doesn't push the envelope,
16:08
said, well, you can't put it on here, but if you want to put on
16:12
a training, we'll even tell people what's going on.
16:16
So we set it up, I set it up, I got everything put together.
16:19
I went through it, told everybody what was going on.
16:22
Basically, if you want to know what was talked about in my
16:25
training, go back and listen to our episode on activity scans,
16:28
because that was the training information I gave out to them
16:32
was that activity scanned episode for granted.
16:36
Some of the information has been changed because our union likes
16:41
to change things without telling us again.
16:44
Another problem we have, but the gist of it is we had to do our
16:52
own training because management wasn't going to do it.
16:57
Our union leadership wasn't going to have the union do it.
17:01
So we had to do it on our own and that's why 66% of routes
17:05
lost money. And the union was not going to
17:09
force management to do it either.
17:12
In my office, a test office from the get go of rec OK, 1212 years
17:21
ago, OK, we went up, we got training with the supervisor and
17:26
everything came back it. It basically got put to the side
17:31
for almost three years basically until the new scanners came out.
17:35
But nobody, nobody in the office that I currently occupy,
17:40
Westchester, Pennsylvania, nobody had any extensive
17:46
training. They they went to a three hour
17:49
seminar with with carriers and stewards and to this day doesn't
17:56
know how to run a radar report, doesn't know how to do a get
18:00
where go in the rims and get APTR.
18:04
It it's it's this type of attitude.
18:09
The laissez faire they have in regards to following the
18:13
contractual language that's not being enforced from our D Rs up
18:18
to our NR OS up to the National board.
18:21
This should be a no compete clause in regards putting wrecks
18:26
on hold because you have failed to fill your obligations under
18:32
the contract. This is the detailed and
18:35
contractual language that you were bound by, and you have done
18:41
nothing of the sort. This isn't an easy system to
18:51
understand. There's a hundred different
18:54
standards as compared to the old system which had, what, 25?
18:59
Those were easy to understand. Now you got to go through 3
19:03
pages of your 4241 M to try to find everything and try to see
19:07
if it matches your numbers. Yeah, and then you have
19:14
disputes. You can't file a grievance on
19:16
management not doing something for the mini mail survey.
19:20
You have to file a dispute, which then goes up to district,
19:25
which the district manager has to meet with the district
19:29
manager at the the district level to resolve it.
19:34
And of course, the district manager's going to say, well, I
19:37
know nothing about this because he wasn't the one that did it.
19:41
And then the the district, the district representative's going
19:43
to sit there and go, well, since you know nothing about it, I
19:46
guess we can't resolve this. We're going to just say that it
19:49
doesn't matter and throw it back down to the carrier.
19:52
And that's not how it should work here.
19:54
No action required. Yeah, so it's pathetic.
20:00
And then to turn around. Good.
20:03
Turn around and give us at SWAC the PowerPoint presentation
20:08
about the Mini Mail Survey. They could update the 99 page
20:13
guide, the Q&A and everything else on the website for Rex, but
20:21
they didn't update the Mini Mail survey PowerPoint for the
20:26
conferences like it only took two minutes maximum to fix
20:31
Update the PowerPoint to match everything that they've given
20:34
away to the to the management. But they couldn't update it for
20:39
SLAC or S, AC or any of the other ones.
20:42
Maybe they'll have it updated for Atlantic or Western and
20:44
maybe mid states but it wasn't updated for SLAC.
20:49
What is their priority to screw over the craft it looks like?
20:55
Well, Toasty was talking about, you know, justifying your
20:58
numbers. It Ladies and gentlemen, how do
21:01
you justify numbers when the 5th day of the mini mail survey, the
21:06
supervisor finally puts a end of day report on your case and all
21:12
the numbers for every previous day are there?
21:16
Yeah, you've been sitting there waiting to do it every day
21:18
because of the fact that, you know, you want to be able to
21:21
cute everything every time it comes up as quickly as possible.
21:26
But you're waiting five days for that.
21:28
In the meantime, management's making the excuse that, oh,
21:32
well, we can't get in the RIM, so we can't get that report.
21:35
The radar report's not up. I've heard.
21:38
Heard this across the country in regards to, hey, we can't print
21:43
these reports. Why not?
21:47
We got a request to speak. You want to invite that's.
21:51
That's the crazy thing and management.
21:54
Local management has no clue. District management has no clue.
21:59
Regional management maybe has a clue.
22:02
The only people that have a full clue of what's going on is
22:04
national management and national leadership and they aren't
22:10
telling anybody anything. And that is a problem.
22:15
Transparency is not there. It's time to turn around and get
22:19
our. Our national steward system,
22:22
which was supposed to make information flowing much
22:27
smoother, faster and easier, has resulted in less information or
22:34
no information at all. It's time to turn that around.
22:37
It's time to step up. It's time for our leadership to
22:40
be somebody who cares about the craft, cares about the carriers
22:44
on the ground, especially ones that are getting killed out
22:48
there. Like the one down in Warren,
22:51
though he was a city carrier, shot and killed.
22:57
But yeah, we're more worried about stationary events, missing
23:01
scans, things like that, instead of the safety of the carriers.
23:13
And I I would like to invite whoever's listening for on
23:17
behalf of the National Board to let Don know it's time for him
23:21
to retire. OK, you have milked the craft.
23:25
You have milked the union for enough money.
23:29
You're never going to serve on your route in Sonora, CA.
23:34
Do us all a favor. Step aside.
23:37
Let me be president and let me show you how to take care of the
23:42
craft and not yourself. This is not about your golden
23:46
parachute. This is not about padding your
23:49
retirement income because you got a over evaluated route in
23:54
Sonora, CA that 2 Subs have to service.
23:59
This is not about getting your high threes.
24:02
This is about taking care of the people who pay your damn Check.
24:08
The ones who are suffering under mismanagement, hostile work work
24:14
environments, you know, threat, threats and intimidation every
24:19
day. Helping on other routes.
24:22
Working Saturdays, working their drop days, working on Amazon
24:27
Sundays. If that's at that's in the
24:29
office and having no personal life whatsoever, they're not
24:35
afforded the luxury you have done of having your spouse in
24:39
your house that we paid for in Alexandria, VA They're not
24:44
afforded traveling to the conferences and the convention
24:49
that you are with your spouse and the rest of the members of
24:54
the national board. No, they're slogging away every
24:58
damn day, putting up with the situations like in Atlanta
25:03
during a mini mail survey, putting up with situations where
25:06
they have no RC as whatsoever. The RC as are being sent 50
25:11
miles away. I I sat there and I I laughed
25:15
and cried when somebody said, oh, they're sending me to an
25:18
office that's almost two hours away.
25:21
And and I posed the question, how far?
25:24
Oh, it's almost 100 miles. What in God's name is going on
25:29
that this is happening without the steward system being
25:33
involved? Maybe the carrier doesn't know
25:35
any better because they're under a a threat.
25:39
Maybe they're a new RCA and they're past their two week pay
25:41
period so now they can be sent out to other offices and they
25:45
don't know any better. Ladies and gentlemen, step up
25:49
and help your brothers and sisters, union or non union.
25:52
If they do this shit to one of us, they do it to all of us and
25:56
it needs to stop. Exactly, exactly.
26:04
And our steward system needs to step up.
26:07
Our steward system needs to start turning around and putting
26:11
their foot down on management. I understand that a lot of them
26:15
don't want to deal with management and don't want to
26:18
deal with fighting with management and our conflict
26:21
avoidant when it comes to management.
26:24
But it's time for them to step up.
26:26
It's time for them to grieve the issues that are going on in
26:30
these offices and it's time for leadership to start putting
26:35
their foot down on management. Because the longer we are
26:40
treated like this, the longer management gets away with this,
26:44
the harder it's going to be to come back from it.
26:53
This, this, this. James and everybody listening,
26:57
this is a critical year for contract negotiation and if you
27:02
think anybody on that board who hasn't been on their route
27:06
years, let alone handling the new MDD scanners or the the 4th
27:11
reiteration of Rex understands what we're going through, you're
27:17
fooling yourself and they don't care.
27:21
They've got it made. They will never work their
27:25
routes again. And they're up there because of
27:30
cronyism, politics, I yeah, I don't know.
27:36
But they're not up there for us. That I do know.
27:41
And we need to change that. We need to change it this year.
27:51
I can't believe that they would be so brazen to turn around and
27:58
make these statements right in front of craft members, right in
28:04
front of carriers that are out here on the streets doing this
28:08
day in and day out. The fact that that the only time
28:13
the group clapped was when he talked about freeloaders and
28:20
scabs and used a striking term, scabs.
28:27
And yes, some people are going to correct me that that's not
28:29
the only term for it. But in the modern day when it
28:32
comes to unions, the term scab really does mean a person who
28:38
crosses A picket line to work while the union is striking.
28:45
So the question I got to ask is, Don, you said the term scab at
28:49
SWAC and then you talk about the private industry doing striking.
28:54
So are you actually violating federal law by calling for a
28:58
postal strike? Is that what you're doing, Don?
29:03
Oh, remember you also got another clap whenever they were
29:06
talking about the Decertify movement and how shame on them.
29:12
Well, why didn't you listen to what they had to say?
29:14
Why don't you listen to what everyone was upset about, why
29:18
the whole decertified movement was even there?
29:22
Because we don't get anything from the board.
29:24
We don't get any communication. Nobody knew about the mini Mail
29:28
survey until exactly 30 days before, at the very last minute
29:32
that they had to post it. Yeah, the fact that his very
29:42
first article in in the magazine was completely about the
29:47
decertify movement and he turned around and said that it was a
29:51
bunch of non dues paying people. Which totally was a lie, because
29:57
I've talked with many of the people within the decertify
30:00
movement and over half of the people that signed the decertify
30:05
movement are dues paying members and even the board wasn't
30:12
willing to listen to dues paying members.
30:15
Well, I guess I shouldn't actually have to say that
30:18
because it's pretty obvious that they don't listen to dues paying
30:21
members. So why wouldn't they take the
30:25
time to find out why people don't want to pay dues into this
30:30
union? Why are people pulling their
30:32
dues from this union? The answer is simple because the
30:36
union doesn't listen to the people that pay the dues.
30:41
They don't listen to the craft. And Don even admitted he's not
30:46
listening to the craft. When he said he's not going to
30:49
try and use all of the resolutions that the craft put
30:55
up to the board, he said he's only going to take 20 or 30 of
30:58
them into negotiations. Now, I can understand taking
31:02
some of them and setting them aside because they match other
31:06
ones, but the fact that you're blatantly saying you're going to
31:09
throw out most of the resolutions that people put up
31:15
tells me you're still not listening to the craft.
31:20
I don't think they're ever going to listen to the craft.
31:22
They only listen to themselves. And mind you, they he stated
31:26
that they started out with 400 resolution and they they whittle
31:31
it down to 20 to 30 and he says, and I prefer to have it closer
31:35
to 20. Well, you know that other ten
31:39
that are in there might not be representing the majority of the
31:44
craft as a whole, but those 10 May be representing 70% of the
31:50
crap just on different issues. So how do you factor that in
31:57
there, Don? How, how do you balance that
32:00
saying 70% of the people are affected by these 10, but that
32:04
since there's not one issue, we're going to disregard them
32:08
because they don't they they represent the majority.
32:11
You represent everybody. Every single carrier do your
32:19
damn job. Yeah, and I bet, I bet you that
32:28
he's going to try to put in that that change to where regular
32:33
carriers can volunteer to work on other routes.
32:36
Even though it was voted down last year at the National
32:40
Convention, I remember that one being up there and everybody
32:43
voting no on that. I think it was 90% of the
32:46
audience minimum voted no on that.
32:48
If I remember looking around the room didn't get a head count.
32:52
So don't quote me on the percentage, but it was voted
32:55
down and yet he's still going to try and put it in the contract.
32:58
The one I bet he's probably already removed is the one I put
33:02
in to make RC as career RC as where they actually can start
33:07
earning towards retirement like every other craft in the Postal
33:10
Service. You know, Don said he was going
33:14
to be monitoring the NALC closely.
33:16
Well, it's funny that they have that provision in their
33:19
contract, but we don't. And then he also mentioned about
33:25
the PTF position expanding that, but like you said before in the
33:31
pregame chat, it's they're only guaranteed 2K routes and that's
33:37
it. If there's not any K routes,
33:39
especially thanks to RRECS after these past couple accounts, then
33:45
where does that leave all these Rcas who are only getting one
33:48
day every other week, or those on H routes and only take the
33:52
vacation days? Well, that's where you you come
33:57
up with Table 5 for RCRC. You know RC as career that that
34:05
way they they don't get penalized for being, you know,
34:08
the full career PTF position in their dues paying, but they are
34:12
eligible for career benefit. Somebody just said, Bill, don't
34:18
give them any ideas. That's the point we we want to
34:23
give them the ideas. So then we can turn around and
34:25
point to them and say, oh look, they actually listened to the
34:29
podcast and decided to make this change because the Craft wants
34:33
this change and we're talking about what the Craft wants on
34:36
this podcast. So they're going to turn around
34:39
and they're going to take what we say on this podcast and try
34:42
to to put it into their system so they can try and earn back
34:46
the votes that they've already lost over all the bullshit that
34:49
they've talked. No, Yeah.
34:54
And and we welcome the the listening to us because guess
34:57
what, we do represent the craft. You know from an OGI to stewards
35:03
to state officers to local officers to to regular career
35:08
carriers to Rcas, we represent the whole spectrum of the craft.
35:13
So you're not getting a microcosm of just five
35:16
individuals up here talking their heads off.
35:19
Well four because Josh is disposed of.
35:23
But the fact of the matter is that we are the craft, and you
35:28
have no idea what's going on out there.
35:31
If you did, you'd probably have an aneurysm right now because
35:36
you wouldn't want to tolerate that in your office.
35:40
But since you haven't been in your office in 1015 years, who
35:44
gives a rat's ass as long as they pay their dues and you get
35:46
your check right? You mean like the aneurysms that
35:50
we have every week listening to all the problems that are going
35:53
on in this Union? Like I said, you know at least
35:59
40 people at SWAC approached me and and basically verified and
36:05
validated every Horror Story you hear or see on any social media
36:12
type page is going on and it's going on for real.
36:17
This is not you know people making stuff up.
36:20
It it almost word for word verbatim was exactly what you
36:26
read online. And it's scary and it's
36:30
saddening. I mean, yeah, yeah.
36:35
I mean, yeah. Let's go back to the lady that
36:37
was crying at the National Convention a couple years ago
36:41
about how she's being treated at her office.
36:45
How did that go over? I mean, you know, was that
36:48
actually resolved? I would like to know if it was,
36:51
but here's a grown woman crying on the floor in front of 1200
36:56
people about the horrendous atmosphere she works in.
37:04
People are on the floor begging for help from the national
37:08
board. They're begging them to help fix
37:11
the issues in their offices. They're begging for leadership
37:16
to institute Mou 25 on hostile management, violations of the
37:22
Joint Statement on Workplace Violence and harassment, things
37:27
like that. And what does leadership do?
37:31
We'll get back to you on that. We'll look into that.
37:34
But they never do. The problems stem from the top.
37:42
The problems stem from management top.
37:45
We have management getting daily telecoms from their district
37:52
managers who are just reaming them, a new asshole who are just
37:58
constantly belittling them, treating them like garbage.
38:03
And it's no wonder why a lot of offices management's treat them
38:07
like garbage because the ones just above their managers are
38:11
treating them like garbage. And as they say, shit rolls
38:14
downhill and it's rolling downhill right onto the
38:17
carriers. And the one thing I am deathly
38:22
afraid of is that we have another Royal Oak or another
38:28
Memphis, another one of those. Because leadership at the
38:36
National Union level in all in not just our union, but the city
38:42
union, the clerk union, are not taking the steps to protect the
38:48
carriers. And in today's day and age, it's
38:53
becoming more and more likely to happen.
38:56
And I am deathly afraid of that. I live not too far from Royal
39:02
Oak. We have carriers who work at the
39:05
Memphis post office. We have carriers that work at
39:08
the Royal Oak post office. What's going to finally give to
39:16
get the union to actually step up and protect the craft?
39:23
It's going to take delegates voting for new leadership
39:28
because this leadership doesn't have the balls to do it.
39:34
Hey guys, I'm going to add something on that real quick.
39:38
Not only was carriers plugging and pleading on the National
39:42
Convention floor and Royal Oak in Memphis.
39:46
And what about the carriers that have taken their own lives
39:50
because of how they've been treated at work?
39:52
Or, you know, the ones that have lost the wrecks?
39:55
How about the ones that have attempted to take their own
40:00
lives and have constant PTSD because of the management that
40:04
they have to deal with on a daily basis when they have gone
40:07
to their through their national steward system and nothing has
40:10
been taken care of? And they are literally scared to
40:14
death to go to work every day. But they need that job to make
40:17
them to meet at home. That reminds me of a window
40:22
clerk we had in Westchester and something came up and she was up
40:28
for Apdi and she went home and committed suicide.
40:35
And she was, she was an elderly woman, I'll say late 60s, maybe
40:41
even 70, and still had to work, you know, because of her
40:45
family's situation. And one day, 11 little thing
40:50
just pushed her over and everybody had thought maybe she
40:55
had passed away because nobody had gotten any details.
40:59
And then four days later, we found out she took her own life
41:03
because she was stressed out. She left a note saying how she
41:06
was stressed out about losing her job.
41:11
Folks, nobody should ever be put in this situation.
41:14
There's the gentleman in Tennessee that I've spoken
41:17
about, injured on the job as an RCA and I won't mention his name
41:22
and sat in the parking lot at a gun store considering going in
41:27
and buying a gun. That's what you're pushing
41:31
people into. And don't tell me it's an
41:34
isolated incident. It isn't.
41:36
And if you lose one person, one carrier, 1 clerk that way,
41:42
that's one too many. Nobody should ever get to that
41:46
point. Sure, you can talk about mental
41:49
health issues, family issues, and everything else, but what
41:54
are we if not a family? And why can't we take care of
41:59
each other? We're.
42:03
Talking about this, if you really want to hear what
42:07
management thinks when somebody goes through this, when somebody
42:12
actually commits one of these heinous acts, go listen to From
42:17
8 arbitration. He's doing a series on the
42:19
Memphis issue and the grievance that the NALC filed and he
42:27
actually went and arbitrated this in front of an arbitrator.
42:32
And you can hear the postal inspectors disdain for the
42:37
union, the management's disdain for the carrier and the union
42:45
and how the union with Corey fighting for them is trying to
42:50
expose management's treatment of carriers.
42:57
That is worth a listen to everybody here.
43:00
I know I'm plugging a different podcast than our own, but it
43:03
really will open your eyes. Yeah, I've been lessening that
43:08
past couple of past couple of weeks.
43:11
It's on Episode 2 as far as I know right now.
43:14
But just trying to trying to get through what management is
43:20
basically lying about half the time or they trip over their
43:23
answers or even management's advocate basically leading the
43:29
questions during arbitration. It's frustrating and everything.
43:34
And then also seeing people posting on some of these groups
43:38
about our own OWCP representative for the NAL and
43:44
National Rule Letter Carriers Association, being rude and
43:49
pushing people off and being short with them.
43:54
Like for that carrier in Tennessee, the RCA that got
43:57
injured on the job, that's what he has to deal with too.
44:01
That's what any of us have to deal with if we try to use him
44:03
as our representative. Frustrating.
44:09
That's why if I got injured, I wouldn't be going to our our
44:12
NRLCA guy. I'd be going to Ron Speakman
44:15
first. I'd be getting my information
44:18
from him because he knows OWCP inside.
44:23
Now with the Fed Up podcast, you can go listen to his too.
44:25
He's got some great episodes on there, but the information you
44:30
need to have and how quickly you need it, I'd rather get it from
44:34
somebody who actually responds to you in a timely manner so
44:38
that you can actually get the help you need as soon as
44:42
possible. Because anytime you're injured
44:44
on the job, you need to be cured quickly, efficiently and OWCP is
44:51
neither quick nor efficient. And the whole goal of OWCP is to
44:56
get you back to work as as quickly and efficiently as
44:58
possible. But they make it so difficult
45:01
for you to do. And having somebody on your side
45:03
that can advocate for you and help you through all the whole
45:07
process is the most important part of all of this.
45:10
And our OWCP Rep doesn't do that.
45:14
I'm just disgusted with the whole thing.
45:16
You know, I'm disgusted with the politics.
45:20
I I'm disgusted with the self centeredness.
45:25
Who who's somebody put up there? Do you risk?
45:29
It's not about me. It's not about James or Toasty,
45:36
Josh, Kristen, anybody. It's about the craft.
45:41
And the craft is Bill May, James Brennan, it's Kristen White.
45:47
It's April, Cutter. It's, it's Jacques there.
45:52
And Jacques, it's about all of us and it's it's about us being
45:59
treated as individuals, about being treated and respected as
46:05
human beings. We're we're the last step in in
46:10
the delivery operations. We're the last step of the
46:13
service the United States Postal Service provides to all of
46:18
America. And for some reason, we seem to
46:23
be the dumping ground. Why?
46:26
What? Why is that?
46:29
Now, from my office, in my perspective, I have a bunch of
46:34
supervisors who were never carriers.
46:37
They were all clerked. They are in fear of the postmask
46:42
who's in fear of the district manager.
46:45
Because if they don't get on their telecoms, if they don't
46:47
get their reports done in a timely fashion, if they have any
46:51
issues with integrity scams, if they have any missed scans,
46:55
These are just numbers, folks. We're talking about people's
46:58
lives, OK? And we know the numbers are the
47:03
business. Business is the numbers.
47:06
But at some point there has to be some type of connection with
47:12
human being. Not reports, not percentages,
47:18
not, you know, completions. And and and everything else,
47:24
we're talking about the interaction between human being,
47:27
treating them respectfully, with dignity, the same way you expect
47:32
to be treated. But that's not what's happening
47:36
in the post office. And I can't say it's
47:40
intentional, but it's pretty damn close to being intentional
47:44
in how they treat everybody, the city carriers, the clerks, the
47:50
rule carriers, even the custodian, you know, to a
47:53
certain degree in my office. But the problem of it is that we
47:59
should be working together. We shouldn't be fighting each
48:03
other. But for some reason this seems
48:07
to be their mentality to try to beat us up, try to rob us of
48:13
what we're entitled to, of trying to take money out of our
48:17
pockets to to basically dehumanize us and turn us into
48:21
robots. OK, I've seen the plants where,
48:24
you know the clerks are being replaced by robots that are sort
48:28
and parcels and taking them over to gaylords and being shipped
48:30
to, you know the different offices or different routes.
48:34
But that's the modernization of of modern America.
48:38
OK, all all this AI and robotics, machinery, it's all
48:45
part of being lean, mean, efficient and profitable.
48:51
But the problem of it is you still have to work with people.
48:57
And they have seen the forgotten this They they they put their
49:00
own interests above ours. Now there's no problem with the
49:04
supervisor bringing in their kid who's two years old on a
49:08
Saturday, or there's no problem with another supervisor bringing
49:12
in two of your teenagers and having them throw parcels on a
49:16
parcel sorting line. But God forbid you have to take
49:22
a day off because your child's sick.
49:25
Or you have to take care of an elderly parent because God knows
49:30
we can't do with you without you on your route.
49:34
Isn't that funny? We can do without management,
49:37
but they can't do without us. What does that tell you in the
49:41
line of importance where rural carriers should be placed at?
49:47
We're the number one line. You guys aren't even in the
49:53
picture, so get off our backs, work with us, treat us decently
50:02
and you'll reciprocate in kind. If not, the carriers are out
50:08
there who have the knowledge and experience we know how to make
50:12
your life a living hell. Not saying that we will, but we
50:17
can. Like I tell every customer that
50:21
gets a little snotty with me, I just remind them I know where
50:24
you live and they look at you and they laugh and it's like, oh
50:28
shit, he does. Don't mess with the best craft
50:35
in the United States Postal Service.
50:39
Exactly. Treat us with humanity and we
50:42
will treat you with humanity. Treat us like garbage and we're
50:46
going to bury you in paperwork. We're going to bury you in so
50:50
much paperwork. Your kids are going to need help
50:54
with the paperwork because this craft is the most important
51:00
thing to each and every person on this podcast.
51:04
We wouldn't be doing this if we didn't care about the craft.
51:09
We wouldn't be sitting here and using our personal time for no
51:14
pay to talk to the craft and help the craft and get the craft
51:19
where they need to be. Because we actually care that
51:23
much about you, the carrier, to do this.
51:29
And I don't care if you are just a lowly arc RCA or regular rural
51:37
carrier, retired rural carrier, if you're an ADRADR, even if
51:43
you're in the national steward system, the regionals or even
51:47
our national board, we want you listening to this craft just
51:51
like we listen to this craft. We're telling you exactly what
51:55
the craft is telling us. So listen, pay attention, get
52:02
the answers you need, Research and make sure that whatever is
52:07
happening you know about, because an educated craft is the
52:13
bane of management. I have to agree, I am home now,
52:20
so if there's anything you guys want me to speak up on, please
52:23
let me know before we end. Oh, go for it.
52:27
I mean, you've been listening to the whole thing pretty much.
52:29
So if you've got any opinions, let us.
52:31
No, not quite, not quite. I had a few dead spots there, so
52:37
I didn't hear as much as I was hoping to.
52:40
Sorry guys, I haven't been on all that too much tonight, but I
52:43
was driving home and had to go get my doggy.
52:46
So, well, what's your opinion on leadership and the training
52:51
systems that are going on in the SD in DC, things like that?
52:57
I I'm curious. I'm going to reach out to my
53:00
girlfriend and find out how things are going for her in New
53:05
York. So I can definitely be able to
53:11
find out from her how that's going.
53:14
Other than that, you know I haven't heard anything great per
53:19
SE as of yet. Anyways, from the carrier's
53:22
perspective, I know walking distances are a pain in the
53:25
butt, but other than that, it's pretty much what I've heard
53:28
lately and I I honestly, I can't even put an opinion out there
53:37
without even hearing first hand. Well, what's your opinion on
53:42
them putting these new casing equipments in the S&D CS and
53:48
then scrapping all the old equipment from the offices that
53:52
they pulled the carriers from? My opinion, which I've stated
53:55
before on that I if there's academies that need equipment,
53:58
they should be using that old equipment and taking them to the
54:00
academies. I mean, why not We, we, if we
54:05
have the old equipment available, these academies that
54:08
are short equipment, it's right there.
54:11
Why not just send it up to where it needs to go?
54:15
Number one, Yeah, new equipment, great, be great.
54:19
If all of us could get new equipment, I know quite a few of
54:22
us that could use it. But I think honestly, in order
54:24
to sufficiently train and some of these academies that don't
54:29
have the proper equipment, then that's where it needs to go.
54:36
You know, in my office we still have some of the old static
54:38
shelf cases where they can only fit in, you know, for six rows.
54:44
There's no adjustability whatsoever to them.
54:47
That's how old some of our equipment is.
54:50
Yeah, yeah, ours is too. We have.
54:52
We have. We have one of those.
54:54
We have we have one case in our office that was brought over
54:58
when they consolidated the two RMPOS, the routes and and we
55:05
don't even have the proper plastics to put on to to do
55:09
labels. So I can't tell you how thick
55:12
those labels are on there because it's impossible to tear
55:16
them off after so much and and they're stuck on and all the
55:19
other labels that we have that fit the rest of the cases don't
55:22
fit that case. I mean just the the minor stuff
55:26
like that is it's ridiculous and even me, you know I asked for
55:31
for my case because I want you know one inch for every you know
55:36
address. Not only is that something I
55:38
prefer, but it also would help my RCA that's assigned to my
55:42
route. You know some of those that are,
55:44
you know that I have to have you know half inch slot for these
55:48
addresses to fit it all in. I asked for either a wing or I
55:53
want you know 6 shelves because I only have 5 and I was told
55:58
Nope can't get a wing. I'm still waiting to find out if
56:01
I can get the shelves or not. Yeah, God forbid they give you
56:07
the equipment. Do the job efficiently.
56:11
Oh, I know. I mean we're we're not asking,
56:14
we're not asking for yeah a Volvo right hand drive delivery
56:18
truck or anything you know with all-wheel drive and you know 280
56:23
horsepower and all we're we're looking for equipment to do our
56:27
jobs. That's it, what's the big deal.
56:31
We were in our office, one of our newer routes that has a lot
56:34
of new subdivisions on it. They didn't have a whole right
56:38
side because there was no equipment, could be asking for
56:42
equipment, asking for equipment, couldn't do anything.
56:45
They finally took away the three M case, try to put it there.
56:48
Well, it only has three shelves that are static.
56:51
You can't add any more shelves. So they finally got one right
56:55
before count, and they're having that carrier coming at six
56:58
instead of 8:00 like everyone else so they can try to get
57:02
through their route because mapping's all messed up on it
57:04
now. Yeah, it's funny.
57:11
We had cases in my office. Go ahead.
57:17
We had case. We had cases in my office that
57:19
had wings on them. They moved everybody to from 5
57:23
shelves to six shelves, got rid of all the wings and sent them
57:28
to somewhere else and they disappeared.
57:32
And now we have a have a route that we had to get a case
57:36
shipped in from another office because they couldn't find
57:40
another one. And I think it came from
57:42
Ipsilanti to get to my office and because they closed one of
57:48
the Ipsilanti offices and merged them into another office.
57:52
So they had a few case pieces left.
57:54
So we got one of those for them. They're the only case in our
57:58
office that has 5 cases. Everybody else only gets three
58:05
and a lot and a lot of them are packed up and that person
58:07
actually needs another wing to be able to have the one inch
58:11
slot minimums, but they won't give them that wing to do that.
58:15
I had my former postmaster when she came in.
58:20
All except for all the routes that had a wing except for the
58:23
one. She made them double sell the
58:26
addresses to get rid of the equipment because she didn't
58:29
want it. And then yeah, so that's what
58:36
we're we're looking at. You know, it's because she
58:39
didn't like the extra wings sticking out.
58:45
Or you get rid of the the the four drawer filing cabinet out
58:49
of your postmaster's office because it wasn't the right
58:53
power. And then she ordered a new one.
59:00
Hold on, hold on. Great use of.
59:03
It still, it still worked as a filing cab, but it wasn't the
59:07
right color. I didn't know we were going for
59:11
office motifs here. Like, no.
59:16
One, No one sees it anyways. I mean, St.
59:20
Postmaster got rid of all the coffins and all the shelves that
59:23
people had for hold mail and put these little particle board
59:26
shelving things in. One we had to completely redo
59:29
because she's the closest to the door.
59:31
So any of the moisture from people's boots going by and and
59:35
anything like that pretty much made the sucker fall apart on
59:38
its own. Go ahead, Toasty, get them.
59:47
I don't know. I'm just thinking back to last
59:49
year when postmaster generals in front of Congress.
59:54
How many of those Congress people were saying rule America
59:57
needs the post office. If you watch through though,
1:00:01
like it's three hours. It's a long, long video, but
1:00:07
over half of them complain about understaffing about boxes, blue
1:00:13
boxes being taken away, collection boxes being taken
1:00:16
away and moved it. It's frustrating that.
1:00:21
Nobody's even paying attention to those Congress people who are
1:00:24
representing their constituents who get complaints all the time
1:00:29
about especially postal stuff. Like my own congressman sat up
1:00:35
there and he's actually on the oversight committee and said I
1:00:38
thought this job was going to be about bills and about veteran
1:00:41
and helping veterans and a majority of his calls are about
1:00:44
postal. It's just proof that even the
1:00:51
public is realizing that they're losing trust in the postal
1:00:58
services plan. And I'm going to tell you this,
1:01:01
I was just talking with somebody the other day about this and how
1:01:05
Masten was touting Dejoy's 10 year plan and how great these
1:01:10
S&D CS are with clean brand new equipment, clean buildings and
1:01:15
things like that. And I'm looking at it going,
1:01:18
yeah, he's working towards a plan where eventually we're not
1:01:22
going to be delivering to all of these houses.
1:01:25
Mass has said that we're slowly becoming a parcel delivery
1:01:29
service. So we're going to become the
1:01:31
United States Parcel Service. Well, I'm sorry.
1:01:34
This past week I've had the most mail I've had since before
1:01:38
Christmas, and it's not even political mail in mind, but I've
1:01:43
had more mail in this past week during the mini mail survey that
1:01:46
I have before Christmas. Can you explain that one to me?
1:01:51
That we're apparently becoming a parcel service, but yet I still
1:01:54
have more mail now than before Slack.
1:02:00
The numbers don't add. Up my my office is reporting
1:02:04
that all of a sudden all the markups are not coming back to
1:02:08
us again during the mini mail survey.
1:02:12
And I said, well how bad is it? The one carrier said, Bill, I
1:02:18
had 9 Miss Sorts and we have, we have two zip codes in our office
1:02:24
and I said, which one yet And they said 80 And I said, OK, I
1:02:30
said what about the A twos? Oh they had the normal stuff.
1:02:32
So apparently they ran the eight OS through the machine twice,
1:02:38
probably because of the fact that a carrier had turned around
1:02:41
and tried to put up that they had 1000 Miss Sorts in there. 3
1:02:48
trays of DPS. I'm sitting there going folks.
1:02:53
You know you can fudge the answers sometimes, but at that
1:02:58
point you got to realize there's something wrong with this
1:03:01
picture. Don't don't try to cheat the
1:03:05
system that much, OK? Be ethical about it.
1:03:10
But the Miss sorts and everything that haven't shown up
1:03:14
and the the the fact that the your all your mark UPS are not
1:03:17
coming back. Isn't that amazing How all of a
1:03:20
sudden it it it starts during a mini mail survey and the day
1:03:25
after we'll right, we'll be right back the first base and
1:03:28
you'll be getting all your stuff back?
1:03:35
All right, you guys about ready to wrap this up for the night?
1:03:39
Well, Chris is. I was going to say that.
1:03:47
So Kristen, you want to start us off with your final thoughts for
1:03:51
the night? Well since I'm going to have to
1:03:54
go back and listen to this after it's done and I post it up.
1:03:58
So I apologize for not being present for most of the night
1:04:02
guys but you know it was my family weekend away and what
1:04:06
not. But yeah we got one more week
1:04:10
left of the mini mail survey. Be interesting, I know my RCA,
1:04:16
the few days that I was able to kind of check and see he was
1:04:18
doing a good job. I will put this out there that
1:04:21
management finally let him run the route Thursday completely on
1:04:25
his own while I was out doing the OJT.
1:04:27
Didn't have anybody help him. He got back to the office 30
1:04:31
minutes under evaluation on a nine hour route.
1:04:36
I mean I can't complain about that one bit.
1:04:41
I've talked to my Co worker when I went and picked up my dog, he
1:04:43
was doing just fine moving right along Saturday.
1:04:47
So yeah, I'm just waiting to see when I get to finish the OJT
1:04:51
with the other one. Now that we're down the LLV,
1:04:53
that's with the jump seat in it. So on that note guys, one more
1:04:59
week left of any mail survey, Everybody can stay safe out
1:05:02
there. I will definitely be back next
1:05:05
week for a full episode. Next week is also a spring
1:05:08
booster for James and I, so that should be interesting to see
1:05:10
what we hear and find out as well.
1:05:13
And yeah, I'll let you guys finish this up for tonight.
1:05:19
Chum, Steve, your final thoughts.
1:05:23
Kind of going off of what Bill was just finishing up with, be
1:05:27
ethical, Be honest. Don't give management anything
1:05:31
to try to bring back on you. Especially when you're trying to
1:05:34
file these disputes and grievances because they'll try
1:05:37
to take it. And you give them an inch,
1:05:39
they're going to take a mile. Just breathe.
1:05:43
Count what you need to count. Let's get through this.
1:05:47
And. See each other on the other
1:05:48
side. We got one week left, like
1:05:51
Kristen said. And then after that, not too
1:05:55
much stress. Just keep doing the job.
1:05:58
Keep going at it. Bill, your final thoughts.
1:06:08
Well, after reading our President's latest edition of
1:06:14
Forming the Craft, I have to say that I'm really disappointed
1:06:20
that you would even consider the MOU being extended.
1:06:25
I'd have to say I'm disappointed in considering that you're going
1:06:28
to put this into the contract. I'm really disappointed that you
1:06:33
don't know that we're not on call seven days a week.
1:06:38
I mean the the glaring deficiency in in understanding
1:06:41
the craft is prevalent to the point of saying, OK, you're not
1:06:48
only in bed with the United States Postal Service, you're
1:06:51
incompetent to the point of impeachment.
1:06:55
The only problem is with the articles of impeachment that
1:06:57
were posted up is that you have basically two positions out of
1:07:02
three that would be a national board member or appointee.
1:07:08
So that that would fly in the face of actually being fair in
1:07:14
regards to that action. But guess what?
1:07:18
It's it's an option to be considered.
1:07:21
And the other option is both the delegates that represent your
1:07:25
point of views, send them to the National Convention, Let them
1:07:29
vote on the next president. It doesn't have to be me, but it
1:07:34
can't be done. Can't be done.
1:07:37
Madison folks, if we go down this path, God bless you all
1:07:42
that are that are going to be left in this situation because
1:07:47
it's going to go downhill, that there's got to be a change in
1:07:50
leadership. There's got to be a full scale
1:07:52
change on the national board, not just the the president, but
1:07:56
the other four positions, you know, well, basically three
1:07:59
positions that need to be corrected.
1:08:03
Hopefully there is somebody that is a NRO might step up.
1:08:08
I won't say his name, but I think he's the best promise for
1:08:12
the future. He's not fully indoctrinated in
1:08:16
the, I'll say Gang of Nine mentality and from all areas of
1:08:26
of concern and discussions I've had with him and others about
1:08:30
him, he's a stand up individual. But that might come down the the
1:08:36
the Pike a little long, you know, a little ways down the
1:08:38
road. But we can't, we can't vote Don
1:08:43
back in there, can't keep going down this road.
1:08:47
It's been going on for almost 20 years now and look where we're
1:08:51
at. It's been 12 years since the
1:08:55
inception of the idea of Rex and look where we're at.
1:09:00
Look where we're at as a craft vision management and the union
1:09:05
has caused among the people who work on the floor with you, we
1:09:10
should be helping each other, not at each other's throats.
1:09:15
You got another week in the mini mail survey.
1:09:18
Like I said, be ethical. You know you have to live with
1:09:21
yourself. Do the right thing.
1:09:24
Do the job as best as you can to your ability.
1:09:26
Fight for everything you think you're entitled to.
1:09:30
Remember 2 best words that during the mini mail survey.
1:09:34
Carrier discretion. And with that, go out and have a
1:09:38
safe week. Do your job diligently.
1:09:41
Watch out for your customers and your neighborhoods.
1:09:44
Make sure you get your ass home because you're the most
1:09:47
important delivery of the day and we don't want any situation
1:09:51
popping up in the future where we lose a carrier or carriers in
1:09:57
offices because of what's going on in the United States Postal
1:10:01
Service. Watch out for each other.
1:10:04
Get home to your loved ones. God bless you.
1:10:11
Thanks for all this and Kristen for letting me run things
1:10:14
tonight. I concur with everything that
1:10:17
people have said here tonight reading the article today.
1:10:22
If there is any person that is listening to this that still
1:10:25
supports Don Mastin to be President of this union after
1:10:30
his comments at SWAC that I posted online and the comments
1:10:33
he posted in his article this month, then you need to really
1:10:40
re evaluate what he means to his craft because he is taking us
1:10:45
down a dark Rd. that we're not going to be able to come back
1:10:49
from. And if we continue down this
1:10:52
path there won't be a rural craft anymore.
1:10:55
We'll be a city craft. And at that point, we might as
1:10:59
well join the NALC because we're going to be exactly identical to
1:11:04
them and we'll be harassed just as much as the city carriers are
1:11:09
with our office times 20 minute load times, street times left to
1:11:14
fill out 3990 sixes, talking about how we're going to be back
1:11:18
in eight hours. And then management's going to
1:11:20
use Dulles and T Wrap to punish us because the computer says
1:11:26
that we're going to have so much under time that we can take more
1:11:29
off of other routes, things like that.
1:11:33
So right now, the biggest thing we need is we need delegates.
1:11:37
Delegates for National Convention last year, only 10%
1:11:43
of the voting craft return their ballots.
1:11:48
If 20% of the craft that didn't vote last year voted this year,
1:11:54
you can change the way the delegation is at National
1:11:58
Convention. You just have to step up.
1:12:02
I'm going to tell what Josh says first, he says.
1:12:05
If you get overwhelmed, take a step back, take a deep breath
1:12:10
and step back in. Because at the end of the day,
1:12:14
no matter what, we're all in this together.
1:12:23
Have a good night everybody, and we'll see you next week.
1:12:39
My name is Bill. I am chill.
1:12:42
I don't. Oh, you said rap.
1:12:44
I'm sorry. Be there, Bill.
1:12:51
I know you got the will, but you really got to try and keep it
1:12:55
chill. Oh gosh, we now turned into a
1:12:59
really bad rap session. Oh.
1:13:02
Gosh, I got a guy named Josh. He's so posh.
1:13:08
All right, somebody stop us.