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Mid Week Bonus #8 · United We Scan

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Just a reminder, everybody listening, the views expressed
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especially in this presentation are the presenters and the
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presenters only and definitely do not represent the views,
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opinions and strategies of the United States Postal Service for
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the National Royal Letter Carriers Association.
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Wow, welcome back. Check for a midweek bonus.
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What a doozy this is. We're just going to get straight
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to it tonight. The MOU that was released today.
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Take it away, James. Though this MOU is about the
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route adjustments that they've been prescribing to all these
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carriers that have been on overburdened routes, putting all
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this these overburdened routes boxes onto aux routes.
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So this MOU is a territorial route adjustment system and it
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says the United States Postal Service and the National World
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Letter Carriers Association agree to the following procedure
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for all world routes receiving territorial adjustments,
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including adjustments to relieve overburdened routes,
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consolidations of one or more routes in an office, and
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creation of new routes. This agreement does not extend
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to routes receiving interim adjustments related to new
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growth, loss of delivery points, or route realignments and RE
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measurements. When territorial adjustments are
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completed in an office, all impacted routes, regardless of
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the amount of the adjustment, will have the route evaluation
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set to the standard hours and minutes as they are finalized on
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the ROW Route Evaluated Compensation System Interim
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Route Adjustment Worksheet. Once the territorial route
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adjustment has been implemented, the route evaluation will remain
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what is finalized on the RECS Interim Adjustment Worksheet
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until such time that at 50, at least 52 weeks have passed.
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The route will then be evaluated using the volume data collection
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period and the mini mail survey associated with either the April
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or October effective date as appropriate.
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Base hour changes may be made to the evaluations finalized on the
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Rex Interim Adjustment Worksheet as needed.
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However, a route evaluation reset will only occur as
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outlined above. All rural routes impacted by
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territorial route adjustments completed in 2024 prior to the
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October evaluation will be reset to the standard hours and
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minutes finalized in the Rex Interim Adjustment Worksheet,
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effective retroactively to October 19th, 2024.
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Territorial route adjustments completed after the October
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evaluation effective date will follow the procedures outlined
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in this MOU for any future route evaluations.
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The rural route evaluations implemented on October five will
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be superseded by this retroactive base hour change for
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all rural routes that receive territorial route adjustments in
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2024 prior to October. For those routes where the
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actual standard hours increased and consequently the route
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classification changes to one or more one with more relief days,
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the assigned carriers will be compensated for the difference
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in evaluated hours adjust and or relief days in accordance with
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the Party's pre arbitration decision regarding retroactive
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route adjustments. Conversely, those rural routes
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which receive a retroactive base hour change reducing the
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evaluated hours will be issued corresponding Accounts
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Receivable note invoices. This the provision set forth in
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the MOU do not restrict the parties from negotiating changes
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to the procedure that opportunities arise based on
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future advancements in technology.
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Find Donald L Mastin, President, NRLCA, and Kathy M Perrin,
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Director of Contract Administration for USPS with the
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National Rural Letter Carriers Association.
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The person who signed this with Don Mastin is the very person
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who is negotiating our next contract with him.
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Now, before we get into our opinions on this, from what I've
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read in here, I'm going to kind of explain what's going on.
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Then we can get into the meat and potatoes of what we think of
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this heap of garbage. The territorial route
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adjustments which are cutting routes from the 48K overburden
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status to the 43 are going to be locked in that 43 K status until
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they get a 52 week data set to be able to use wrecks properly
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on these routes. This is retroactive to when they
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first started cutting routes. So according to this, if your
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route was cut and then your route was re evaluated back to
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48 K, you're going to be put back to that 43 K and charged by
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the Postal Service for the money you were paid.
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Conversely, for those carriers who had aux routes that had the
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overburdened portions put on their routes then became full
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routes, that evaluation will be that full route evaluation as it
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was when they placed those boxes on that aux route to make it a
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whole route. That is the only benefit here is
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that the carriers who went on to an aux route that was evaluated
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above the 42 standard hours when they did the cuts and ads will
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be paid at the rate that it was evaluated at when they made the
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cuts. Conversely, the carriers who
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were overburdened, got the routes cut to 43 K and then went
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back to 48K are going to lose a crap ton of money right around
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Christmas. Now people are asking what if
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I'm still having growth on here? This does not affect the interim
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adjustments as you do your LTM mapping every month.
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So if you're adding boxes to your route, you're going to turn
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around and you're going to still get those interim adjustments
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and then that will be your new evaluation.
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So there there is questions on that, but I wanted to let you
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know the interim adjustment process still will be effective.
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So those of you who are scared that you're going to be stuck at
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43 when you're having growth on your route will still get
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adjusted on the other side of it.
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I could see it being held for a year.
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And then because of those interim adjustments, you go
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right back to that 48K mark again.
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And they see that on the evaluation and immediately cut
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you again to 43 right after that first year.
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But before I go off, I'll let Kristen go first.
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Also, since the most recent mini mail survey, if your route has
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been adjusted cut after that happens, you'll be hell.
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You'll be locked into that 52 weeks.
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So you won't, you'll have to get a full 52 weeks before your
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route will change. So any of them going on in the
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future will be locked in for a full 52 weeks just to make sure.
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Add that in there too so it's clear.
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But yeah, here's the thing, they saw this coming.
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They saw because didn't they tell us when questions were
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asked at at boosters and conventions and conferences that
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what's going to happen with these routes that have been cut
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due to overburden status with the next mini mail survey?
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And I do believe the responses were going to be they'll
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probably go back up. So why wasn't something like
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this instude prior to the most recent mini mail survey and now
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before Christmas you're going to send out letter of demands and
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screw those carriers over. Honestly, if you're going to do
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this after the most recent mini mail survey, put the 52 week
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hold in effect and make it awash on those carriers that were
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overpaid and make it right with those carriers that are being
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underpaid. That's all I have for the
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moment. Bill.
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When this alert came up my phone I was trying to read it on my
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phone and I said OK. I got to print a hard copy off
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because I couldn't, I couldn't follow the language correctly
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and, and the more I kept reading it, it just my mind just kept
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going down to issued corresponding accounts
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receivable invoices that you're going to have to pay money back.
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How many of us have got paid for being over 57.36 for the last
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six years? How many of us have gotten paid
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for all the extra work we've done that wrecks?
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We were supposed to pay for what we do and now they keep chipping
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away like with the cola labels, parts labels, colas, you know,
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the second trips for hampers and this and that and it it just sat
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there and said, you're kidding me.
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I said because the first thing I I thought of was the 52 week
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data collection was one of the topics we discussed earlier in
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our podcast history in regards to being fair.
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When you make adjustments because of the volume factors,
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the your drive, drivetime speed and you know, other factors when
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you take on other parts of different routes when they were
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squaring them up or when they were basically cutting them.
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And you know, we, we, we talked about this said, you know, if
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you're going to do this and you need a full 52 weeks evaluation
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data in there to make it fair. And, and here it is.
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Wow, they stole another idea off the United we scan podcast.
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But to turn around and say that you're going to send out account
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receivable invoices to the carriers who've been slaving
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away for six years. I don't, I, I don't, I don't
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know what constitutes justification for a blew out by
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carriers. But.
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If this doesn't qualify, I don't know what does it.
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This is just thoroughly disgusting that Don Madsen put
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his name on it and this is the woman he's going to go up
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against in negotiating our contract.
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She's going to eat his lunch and I am thoroughly disgusted.
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I think a lot of carriers are thoroughly disgusted with this
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thing. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm biting my
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tongue from not using profanity because I am so pissed because
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this is so one sided. It's ridiculous.
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You aren't the only one. You aren't the only one.
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I I know I was looking at comments on Facebook after I got
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done with with my route today and seeing the comments on it
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and it it's disheartening to hear these carriers talking
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about how they just got an adjustment down, went back to 48
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and now they're actually making up the money that they had lost
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working so hard under the rec system before the cut.
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And I talked with a carrier earlier who was on a 45K due to
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Rex evaluation that really should have been a 48K.
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Well guess what they they just hit 48 K and they got cut and
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then this MOU comes out. So now all that work they did
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passed their 45 unless they went over 56 for the week they are
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getting paid for and they are getting renumerated for it.
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This is the problem with this 52 week system.
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It's a great tool for telling how we've been for the past 52
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weeks, but the carriers are losing money hand over fist with
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Rex right now. Especially when you have a
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president who thinks we've had it too good for too damn long.
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He thinks that rural carriers have been getting off way too
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early from their routes, so that carriers are now working off the
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clock in order to still get off 3 hours before their evaluation
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time. Carriers are going early and
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working off the clock to do it, but he doesn't care because all
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it's about is the numbers on the spreadsheet.
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And then he's talking with this lady who's our contract
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administrator. I think that this should have
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been between our director of Labor relations and their
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director of Labor. It should not have been our
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president with our contract negotiation person on the other
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side. This is a blatant attack on the
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craft from both the USPS and our president because he's taking
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money out of our carrier's pockets, and I'm not going to
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stand for that. Yeah, to to sit back and put a
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name, a signature on a piece of paper that is literally taking
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money out of the pockets of your carriers, especially as we're
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coming into Christmas time, especially, you know, Table 2
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carriers on lower steps. I mean, that's that that hurts.
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We're struggling enough as it is that, you know, so it was what,
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a few a few pay periods. So why can't we just make call
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it good and then make those carriers that drop down with
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this last mini minute mail survey, make them whole and then
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just call it good for everybody else and then start the new
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evaluations over again. But to literally say, hey, guess
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what, you're going to have to pay us back it.
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It's bullshit, you know. It's bullshit.
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The, the bullshit is the hundreds of millions of dollars
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they saved over six years and the rule craft being
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overburdened on 48K routes versus the money they're going
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to be taking off of the people now.
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I mean, they're, they're, you know, they might make a couple
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million off of this, you know, being the, the time frame and
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everything. But it all all depends on when
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they actually institute this and how quickly individual offices
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can respond to it. It's in point.
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Westchester has 22 roll or 18 roll routes right now.
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They they've got one PTF going to go to convert to a regular,
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they have a sub who is going to go to APTF in another office,
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and they have another regular who's interviewing for a
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supervisor job. So you're actively losing 3
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carriers there. That leaves you 4 Subs to fill
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the three positions, which means you'll have one sub 18 routes.
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Now after you get done cutting down the 13 overburdened routes,
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you're going to create at least three additional routes.
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You don't have enough vehicles for the 18 routes you have right
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now. Where are you going to magically
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materialize 4 vehicles on top of that?
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End up hiring? You haven't hired anybody new in
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over 8 months. Where are you going to come up
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with these people? Now the kicker was that there
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was a stand up talk this morning that because of the volume of
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packages, the Westchester office which includes the city carriers
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and IT and totals almost 100 carriers in in in all, are only
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going to get 2 hours of machine time on the parcel sorting
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machine and the rest will be done manually because they don't
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have enough clerks to work the parcels.
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So the question was, OK, they're going to pay you wait time.
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Are are they going to make you do second trips, which aren't
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second trips because of the fact that they fail to process the
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parcels in timely fashion. They don't have enough clerks
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for, you know, sorting the mail, the, the flats, bundle flats,
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everything that comes in it. This, this place is going down
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the fucking toilet damn fast. And then this to get hit in the
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face with this or your president basically just said you're
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screwed and you're going to have to pay money back after they
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have gotten away with not paying us billions over the past six
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years. And I'd, I'd, I wish, I wish the
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people who voted for him at the last convention could hear this
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message. This is what you voted for.
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This is the type of representation that represents
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the craft. Mind you, his salary of $190,000
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won't be affected. But the people on table too
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Start signing up for food stamps now because it's going to be a
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lean ass Christmas. The biggest thing about this is
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we warned them. We told them this was going to
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happen. They were going to find another
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way to take more money from carriers.
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They were going to find a way to screw carriers over again.
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We told them that at National Convention in Reno that if we
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don't stop the bleeding, carriers are going to pay dearly
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for it. They voted for him, they put
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them in the office. They were scared of change.
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Well, now that change is going to cost some carriers thousands
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of dollars, especially if they were the first to be adjusted in
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2024. Thousands upon thousands of
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dollars is going to go back into USP s s pockets and they'll
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praise it as cutting the losses that they're having.
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They're going to praise it as helping to get them closer to
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being fiscally responsible off the backs of the rural carriers.
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It is time for us as a craft to stand up, step up, be involved,
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get in there, get into your union meetings, get involved,
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run for delegate, for your state convention, for your National
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Convention. It is time for us to boot the
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people out that think we've had it too good for too long.
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Because I don't know about you, but if I keep losing money here,
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I can't afford to live. There are a lot of carriers
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right now that are so close to the brink of not being able to
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live that something like this would almost definitely kill
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them. I'm not.
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I'm not being facetious here. The cost of living hasn't gone
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down. Look what happened with the
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first mini mail survey and the first evaluations that came out
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and the 66% of the routes that dropped.
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Look what happened to some of our carriers.
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We lost some of our carriers that unfortunately are no longer
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with us because of the stress that caused them then and now
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this, Now you're putting a second wave out there with this
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MOU telling these carriers with their, when their routes went
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back up after being adjusted during the first, during this
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last mini mail survey. Then now they're going to have
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to pay that back when you already said, when your
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representatives had already said at the various conferences and
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conventions and and whatnot. Oh yeah, they'll probably go
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back up during the many mail survey because of the 52 weeks
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of data. You knew it then and you
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couldn't put the 52 week Hold on then, but oops, guess we'll have
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to do it now and then take everything out of the pockets of
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the carriers that we affected. That's bullshit.
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Now you're causing more hardships.
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Now you've got more carriers who have been on the the the line of
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whether they're going to stay or go that have probably just
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made-up their minds of saying fuck you, I'm gone and walking
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out. So now you've got even more
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offices in crisis and short staffed because people can't do
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it anymore. We are the ones with our boots
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on the ground. We are the ones that are out
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there in all the weather delivering God knows what comes
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in half those Amazon packages that we're lunking around.
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And this is how you thank us. We understand that there is not
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very much we can do right now, but you can.
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We're doing everything we can right now to help grow the
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craft, educate the craft, and get the craft motivated.
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But it depends on you. You need to help us.
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You need to help educate your brothers and sisters in your
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office. Show them this.
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Tell them that this president has turned around and screwed
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carriers who were overburdened for a very, very, very long
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time. Call your call your union reps
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and tell them you don't like what Mastin just did, that they
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can pass it up to him. Spread the word because we want
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National to know they screwed up on this, that their president
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who's supposed to speak on the craft did not speak for the
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craft on this MOU. He spoke for himself and making
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management happy, which seems to be his MO lately.
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Just make management happy so that way we don't have to fight
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over things. Well, I'm sorry, this craft
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needs to fight. This craft needs to step up.
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And it starts right here with the carriers that are listening
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to this podcast and the ones that are brought here because of
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this episode or any other episode we have.
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Because an educated craft is the bane of management.
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Don Masten is expecting our craft not to be educated, is
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expecting us not to know what's going on with this stuff.
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It's time to turn the page. It's time to remove the cancer
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at the top. He is a cancer who thinks rural
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carriers have had it too good for too long.
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He even said that when 66% of carriers lost pay during the
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many mail survey the first time around, that carriers are
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finally getting paid for the work they're doing.
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He said that to the craft at a conference. 66% of carriers
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losing money are getting paid what they deserve.
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I don't know about you, but if you are the president of a
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union, you should be pissed that carriers are losing money.
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You should be pissed that carriers are going to get
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letters of demand from management for this.
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MOUI wouldn't personally assign this because this is hot
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garbage. I know I use that a lot.
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There's a lot better than other words that could be used in this
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situation. But anybody out there who thinks
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they can help change this craft needs to step up.
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And if you feel like you're scared to do so or you're
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intimidated to do so, I got your back.
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So does Bill. So does Kristen.
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Hey, James, here's here's something that just crossed my
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mind on this. RCAS covering these routes, if
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they're paid evaluation because maybe they're in an office where
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they're not getting over 40 hours.
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And are you taken away from our CAS too, that we're covering
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these routes and PTFS that we're covering these routes?
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Considering the MOUI would not put it past management because
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they left that language open, it just says that they didn't.
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Go over 40 hours and they were paid evaluation for the week.
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You're now taking money out of leave replacements pockets as
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well. It it doesn't specify anything
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other than those rural routes which receive a regular.
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Rural carriers, it says rural routes.
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So now you're also taking money out of leave replacements.
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We have a shortage as it is as enough and they are underpaid
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and now you're going to take money out of their pockets as
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well. What if it's at RCA that's been
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holding down that route for the last month or month and a half
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because the regulars out injured or sick or family emergency or
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it's just a vacant route? So yeah, you're taking money out
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of designated 74's pockets as well.
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You're taking money out of PTF pockets, RCA pockets.
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That's complete utter bullshit. Yeah, and just in our comments
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in this live stream right now, which if you guys were a part of
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our Discord, you would know we were recording this live.
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Make sure you go head over to our group page and join the
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Discord server and you can listen to us record live.
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It says as an RCA, if I see a letter, I will be gone.
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I can't afford to pay back anything.
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Unfortunately, they'll still go after you for it even if you
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leave. And that's true for even regular
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carriers. There are regular carriers that
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will not be able to pay this back and then they're going to
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turn around and with that letter of demand, take it from your
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paycheck and. Now you're going to leave the
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carrier short. And now the carrier is going to
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be short on their bills. They're going to not be able to
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pay their electric, their gas, their house payment, their car
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payment, whatever and especially their car payment.
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If they purchase a right hand drive vehicle now, they're going
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to lose the policy for. Everybody, because this is going
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to affect Christmas for everybody, even if they don't
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get the a letter of demand before the holidays.
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Let's say it's after the holidays and it's after the
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first of the year, because we know how quickly they do those.
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Of course, in this case, they might do it right away.
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So now they're already know that they're going to have pay money
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back, so now they're having to put money aside that they
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normally would have spent for Christmas.
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You're robbing from the families, you're you're taking
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people's livelihoods. For some it may not be too much.
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For others it could be devastating just depending on
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where they're at financially. As well as table one, Table 2
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and steps. Either way, it's going to hurt
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in one way or another. Imagine the carriers that, you
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know, are sitting there deciding whether or not to stay in the
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union because they could use that money for, you know, their
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food budget. And now they're going to get hit
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with this. There's there's going to be
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people bailing on this, too. Yeah.
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T. And here's the other kicker on
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this. The money they take out is post
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tax too. Yes and I will say this, if 15%
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is depending on the person, could be anywhere from 300 to
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500 to $700.00. Especially those that work their
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relief days every week because there aren't enough relief
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carriers. Exactly.
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So you're talking? That's per pay period since the
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evaluations went back up. And if you're talking 52 weeks
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of of adjustments, that's 26 pay periods.
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Think about that. So we'll go with the $500.00 for
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pay period. That's 10,000 dollars, $10,000
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out of carrier's pocket for for 52 weeks.
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I I don't think that's what it's alluding to.
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No, it's the ones that were cut prior.
26:33
You're. Talking for future monies, but
26:36
you know they're they're not going to be collecting 10,000
26:39
hours off of somebody unless they've worked every drop day
26:43
and and Sunday parcels since the evaluations came out.
26:47
I was going with $500, which is about average per pay period or
26:51
the top per pay period for somebody who only works five
26:54
days a week, 500 per pay period. And I went to 52 weeks because
26:58
10,000 sounds a lot better. Easier to say than actually
27:02
calculating out the true amount that it would actually.
27:05
Be well, it's going to be from when the word else went into
27:08
effect October 7th. It's from October 7th back to
27:12
when your route was cut, yes. So if you're if your route was
27:17
cut before the April mini mail survey, you're going to be
27:20
paying for all those weeks after the April mini mail survey when
27:25
your route went up. Yeah, this is I think most of
27:29
the cuts though, James, were done between the spring and fall
27:33
mini mail survey. Yeah.
27:34
So you're looking at maybe $5000 per carrier, but that's $5000.
27:40
Yeah. That is, that is five paychecks
27:44
for a Table 2 Step, 1 carrier, 5 paychecks.
27:52
It is, it is backdated to October 19th, but still that's
27:57
the following pay period after October 7th.
27:59
So either way, I mean, still people and the amount of money
28:03
somebody could lose would be detrimental because you're still
28:05
going only going back a couple pay periods.
28:07
But the same time that's not good for some people.
28:11
I mean, that could be, you know, a $700,000 loss for somebody
28:16
that might be most of their pay, like a full paycheck.
28:20
Yeah, I've got a hot question for y'all.
28:22
How involved was our Director of Labor Relations, Stewart
28:25
Operations and our new NR OS were they, how involved were
28:30
they with this decision? No clue.
28:34
If if they were. No clue.
28:37
I I will say this. I already sent a text out to one
28:41
of them so. I will say this, I do know that
28:48
a certain NRO was not knowledgeable in this or they
28:52
would have told me, but that is just an assumption on my part.
28:56
I do not know for sure. I bet like the one of our
29:00
chatters just said, I bet they were not even consulted because
29:03
this was a conversation. It's signed by Don Masten and
29:07
the contract negotiator for the USPS.
29:09
So I'm guessing it was something that she threw on the table and
29:12
said if you sign this, I'll give you this.
29:14
It's a possibility, but. James what?
29:17
What did we get out of this? We won't know until they
29:20
actually present us a contract, but like everybody says, Don's
29:24
waiting on the city carriers to decide whether they're going to
29:28
approve their tentative agreement or or shot shoot it
29:30
down. He won't tell us.
29:36
Well, I, I, I haven't seen anything positive about this MOU
29:39
yet. And the fact that matters that,
29:41
you know, for past six years they couldn't cut my overburden
29:44
route. How the hell are they going to
29:46
effectively do this and then turn around and retroactively
29:49
turn around and ask the carrier to say, oh, by the way, you owe
29:53
us this, this amount of money? Yeah, this, this is this is one
29:57
of those times where we've been talking about it.
30:00
We need it spread around, but it's time for the carriers on
30:04
the street to step up. There's a bill to fighting NALC
30:09
out there trying to get people to fight for the NALC.
30:14
It's time for us as a craft to stand up and fight for our
30:18
rights, for what we deserve, and for us to be paid fairly, not
30:24
some stupid MOU that cuts people money.
30:27
I'm sick and tired of having to do these breakdowns and these
30:32
midweek bonus episodes because somebody is too incompetent in
30:37
their position to know carriers come first in his job.
30:42
So I'm telling you what, as of right now, I'm putting my hat in
30:47
the ring and I'm running against Don Masten.
30:50
There you go, James. Because I am sick and tired of
30:54
my brothers and sisters out there getting screwed over by a
30:59
guy who thinks you've had it too good for too long.
31:01
That carriers deserve the pay cuts that they get while he gets
31:05
to fit in our paid for home at national office and sign MO use
31:12
after deal after deal after deal.
31:15
That just cuts the pay of the craft over and over and over and
31:19
over. I'm sick of losing money.
31:22
Y'all are sick of losing money. It's time to go into national
31:25
conventions starting today and tell Mastin it's our union, not
31:31
his. It's time for him to get to
31:34
stepping. This is OK, so you know, 2 full
31:42
pay periods, it's still not the greatest.
31:45
Honestly, those two pay periods, you know, make those carriers
31:49
that went back down and that you know, the ones that you got to
31:53
bring back up that the whether it was a new route created or,
31:57
or the routes that had the territory added on them to build
32:01
them up, make them whole. But why do we have to take the
32:06
money back from the carriers because, oh, I guess our systems
32:11
aren't that great. No, they're not.
32:13
We saw this coming, you guys, the national board even said
32:18
earlier this year, yeah, the routes will probably go back up.
32:22
The routes will go back up. The routes will go back up
32:25
because of the 52 weeks of data. So why couldn't they have just
32:28
put the hold, the 52 week hold on those adjusted routes prior
32:34
to the mini mail survey? Hello.
32:36
I mean, this right here shows you again the difference between
32:40
being reactive and proactive and planning ahead and reading
32:45
what's going on. It it enough's enough.
32:48
I find it hilarious that the most passion for the craft I saw
32:54
out of Don Mastin was him actually out there chanting
32:58
Enough is enough when we were in Reno and him being a talking
33:03
head on the media because it didn't affect postal management.
33:08
He doesn't care about you when it affects postal management.
33:11
He only cares about you when he can get out in front of the
33:14
spotlight and put his name out there as the president of the
33:18
NRLCA. The one of the one in the
33:22
listener chat there what this does of any of the routes that
33:25
are being cut currently. Post the follow mini mail.
33:29
Survey those routes during the next mini mail survey until they
33:37
have 52 weeks of data. Their route evaluation will stay
33:41
what they're cut to. So if it's that overburdened
33:44
4748 K that was cut down to a 43 or a 45, if the circumstances
33:49
were right, they will stay until they have a full 52 weeks of
33:53
data, which is what it should have been to begin with.
33:56
But let's not think about that and, you know, get that under
34:00
control before this happens. What I'm really trying to figure
34:04
out overall is the post office can track every single letter
34:09
that goes to every single address.
34:11
They can track every single package that goes to every
34:13
single address. Why the hell doesn't the rec
34:17
system have those numbers when you move these boxes to these
34:21
other routes then the only thing you need to do an evaluation on
34:25
that route literally is the footage, the distance between
34:30
the boxes and park points and door deliveries.
34:34
They know when we have mail that needs to go to a box to be
34:37
scanned for an SPM. They know when a package has to
34:41
be delivered. They know when we have a
34:43
certified for that address. Why is that data not being used
34:47
for wrecks? Why is it that we are so stuck
34:50
in the stone ages with the with the union and management that we
34:54
can't use the very AI data that we have?
34:58
Our evaluations could be made simpler if they just used that
35:03
data. You mean like they did in the
35:06
old mail counts and when they had no they routes back in the
35:09
day? They knew what each box factor
35:11
was, but under racks they're doing it as an average for the
35:15
whole route as a whole and not box by box.
35:19
But yet they know if you had a letter for that box, they're not
35:21
in your DPS. Yep, Yep.
35:24
And they use the informed visibility, not the informed
35:29
delivery, but the informed visibility for your box coverage
35:32
factor. So of course they have those
35:33
numbers, but you know when you put bids out and you take the
35:38
lowest bidder, this is what you get, especially when you've,
35:42
especially when it's been, this has been in the making for what
35:45
12 years or more? 12 years.
35:49
Yep, 12 years this has been in the making.
35:51
This was initially supposed to go in effect in 2015 and didn't
35:55
go in effect till 20/23/2022. Excuse me?
35:59
Initially started. So it took you that long and you
36:04
couldn't have had these stupid little kinks worked out and now
36:07
you're going to cost the carriers?
36:08
It's bullshit. This is complete.
36:11
Being reactive to the situation rather than being proactive and
36:16
seeing that it's coming down the line.
36:18
We all saw it. We've all talked about it months
36:21
ago. Like James elaborated on my
36:24
speech for the National Convention and made the comment
36:28
of that I was speaking that I didn't have experience.
36:32
Well, James, I'd have enough experience not to sign this
36:35
piece of shit document. And I, I also have enough
36:39
experience, you know, just from this podcast to know what's
36:42
going on. So, you know, it's not a matter
36:46
of inexperience. It's just a different type of
36:48
experience. And it's also, more importantly,
36:52
a different perspective, a different set of eyes looking at
36:55
a situation instead of being a career politician on the
36:58
national board because I've had my feet on the ground the last
37:02
26 years. You can't say that.
37:05
My feet on the ground. I mean my feet have been on the
37:08
ground for the last 10 years. I've, you know it, it shows you,
37:15
and I hate to say this. No, no, I don't hate to say this
37:18
anymore. I take that back.
37:19
It shows you how out of touch people are when they haven't had
37:25
their feet on the ground in so long.
37:28
Men. When you haven't experienced
37:30
what we've experienced, when you haven't been the ones that
37:33
they're going all right, it's going live.
37:35
Oh, Nope, it's on hold again. What's going on?
37:37
What's doing this? And then let's not even start
37:41
with the the individual offices and management and making sure
37:45
that stuff is getting done like it's supposed to every month.
37:48
Example mapping. I know offices that haven't
37:51
mapped since freaking January or when they initially mapped, but
37:56
somehow management's going in there and fiddling it saying,
37:59
Yep, it's done and the carriers haven't seen nothing since the
38:02
initial mapping. But you know what?
38:04
We're going to take money out of these carriers pockets because,
38:08
you know, instead of coming down on management and putting people
38:12
in those offices that can get that shit turned around and
38:14
changed up, Now we're just going to cut them and not think about,
38:18
oh, look, I guess this actually happened and no, well, you know,
38:23
you're going to have to pay us back.
38:26
Hang on, I know an office that didn't even do the initial
38:29
mapping, nor have the carriers mapped sent.
38:33
Yeah, and. Chris, Chris, you talked about
38:35
being out of touch. And all I can remember is Mike
38:38
Swain, our former Dr. who hadn't been on a route since 2001.
38:44
And when he went back to the Academy, he had to learn how to
38:47
use a scanner. Yeah, the Dr. didn't know
38:49
anything about scanning functions.
38:51
That's for any board member that's up there now.
38:53
Not any. There's a, There's a few that,
38:55
there's a. Couple of them that the ones
38:57
that have been up there forever, you know, Jeanette Dwyer, John
39:02
Mastin, don't know how to do a scanner.
39:04
They'll tell us that they know the scanners and they know the
39:07
stuff that's in them, but they don't actually physically have
39:11
the ability to use one. They'd have to go back to the
39:14
Academy and relearn all the stuff.
39:17
Hell, they probably they said they'd have to do the LLVFFV and
39:20
Metris and NGDV training before they could even go out on their
39:24
route. They probably have to go back to
39:26
the Academy and relearn everything because they've not
39:30
touched a route in decades. Yeah, literally start from the
39:35
bottom up only as a regular, not in RCA.
39:37
You know, that's I've always been for and I'm still going to
39:43
be for. I think anybody who is a full
39:47
time union employee should have to be back on their route at
39:53
least for a a full week once a year at least.
39:58
And it not and it not affect the RCA on the hold down.
40:05
The RCA should get a week's vacation.
40:08
When that national board officer comes back to run the route,
40:11
give that RCA a vacation for a week.
40:14
You know, and that was always big.
40:15
Well, the, the, the loser designated 74 status.
40:19
But you know what, after your, your, your week or whatever it
40:23
is that that's just the bare minimum.
40:25
I'm just throwing that out there.
40:27
I'm not. One way or another, they need to
40:29
be back on the route for at least a week out of the year so
40:32
that RCA goes after that week's up, you head back out.
40:35
RCA goes back on that route after 90 more days.
40:38
Oh guess what? It retroactivates to the day
40:40
they went back on the route. What's so difficult about that?
40:43
You're not taking away that doesn't aided 74 forever.
40:46
So a little bit behind on sick leave, but all the all Rcas now
40:50
are earning annual leave anyways.
40:53
And yes, they can easily override that too.
40:55
And I'm sure if we were to put a resolution forward to make that
40:59
happen, we could include that provision to do so.
41:03
So. We can come up with an MO U.
41:07
Yeah, here, here is what you as a craft need to do today.
41:16
In our current magazine that just came out the November,
41:20
December edition, there is the national delegate registration
41:26
form. Fill it out.
41:27
Become a delegate to National Convention.
41:31
Get yourself out there to your state, get involved with your
41:35
state stuff, get your local, go to your state convention.
41:38
Things like that. Be seen, be recognized.
41:42
Because it's you who needs to be the voice of the craft at
41:47
National Convention all too often.
41:50
Governing body. We're the governing body.
41:54
They're just elected representatives.
41:55
We're the government body. We have the final say.
41:59
And while you're doing that, there is also the resolution
42:02
form. You can use the resolution form.
42:05
We've talked about the resolutions in an episode,
42:08
previous episode. You can make resolutions to
42:11
change the constitution of the National Rural Letter Carriers
42:15
Association. You could do resolutions to
42:17
change your state constitution. And you can do resolutions of
42:21
things you want to see in the contract, Use them, get
42:24
involved. You need to step up for yourself
42:30
and your brothers and sisters of the craft because they and you
42:35
are the reason the rural craft exists.
42:38
The rural union exists. Step up, help us help the craft.
42:43
Because it's time we put somebody up at the top that
42:46
listens to the craft instead of management.
42:50
Someone who takes your concerns and uses them to get what the
42:56
rural craft needs against management.
42:59
All too often you hear them being friendly.
43:03
You heard Don Be friendly with the joy at National Convention
43:08
and the joy joking about being friends with Mastin on stage.
43:13
Step up. Help your craft.
43:15
Help your brothers and sisters. You are needed.
43:19
You are wanted also be the voice for the voiceless like we are.
43:26
All right, guys, we're going to wrap this up.
43:28
Tonight. Yes, please.
43:30
So that's all. We're.
43:31
Going to call it a night now. I think we've all gotten our
43:35
frustrations out for now. But yeah, that's go read the
43:40
MOU, print it off, hang a copy up on your rule, rule board in
43:44
your office. Just know, I mean, I, I get the
43:48
52 week stay on the newly adjusted routes.
43:53
I completely understand that that's fair.
43:56
When it comes to the mini mail survey and the 52 week work, 52
44:01
week data and all that stuff. What really just get gets my go
44:06
is the fact that, yeah, it may only be a couple pay periods,
44:10
but you're still taking money out of the pocket of the
44:12
carriers. Make make the other one, make
44:14
the other side whole as needed. But why do we have to take the
44:18
money out of the pockets of our carriers, The ones that have
44:21
worked so hard and worked so long being overburned,
44:24
overburdened and not compensated fairly for that.
44:28
And then OK, they got the relief only for because of the data
44:33
tracking to go back up and now you're going to take money back
44:38
out of their pockets. That to me is the hardest hit
44:42
right there. I mean it, it sucks, but I am
44:46
going to close that out unless either one of you guys have
44:48
anything else to say tonight. I do.
44:51
I do. Go for it, you know it.
44:54
This doesn't directly affect me since I've I've retired, but I,
44:58
I may make a, a return. But the fact of the matter is
45:02
that, you know, when I read this, I got to the line of
45:06
accounts receivable invoices and I'm sitting there going, are you
45:10
fucking kidding me? You're, you're, you're just
45:14
going to find another way. RIP us off.
45:17
And we have no transparency on Rex.
45:19
We have no transparency on our national board.
45:22
But this is just so sickening. And to think that everybody
45:28
who's listening, you know, if this doesn't motivate you to
45:32
become a national delegate to vote these people out of office,
45:37
I don't know what will besides the next contract.
45:40
And when that comes up, God help national board because they will
45:45
get lit up. We get anything remotely similar
45:49
to NLNALC contracts and agreement.
45:55
I, I'm saddened for all of you because of the fact that this is
45:58
just, it's heart wrenching. It really is it.
46:02
They're doing nothing for the craft.
46:05
And yet every year they vote the same individuals in.
46:11
And it makes me sick because I know the effort that myself,
46:15
James and Kristen would put in if we were on the national board
46:19
right now. And I know that this piece of
46:22
paper would never cross my desk, get a signature on it, not ever.
46:28
Not until they got transparency done, not until they got the
46:31
adjustments done, not until they got the, you know, the
46:34
overburdened routes paid for. If you can go from a 40 to a 48
46:40
and you have hourly and minute adjustments for each step up,
46:44
then you can create new steps to pay these people for the routes
46:47
that are overburdened. And I'm not just talking about a
46:51
couple hours. I'm talking people who are up in
46:52
the 60s and 70s on their overburdened routes.
46:56
And this just makes me sick. And I'm, I'm sad for every rule
47:00
carrier that has to tolerate this kind of shit.
47:03
I'm just, I'm praying for y'all. You know, it's, it's dark out
47:07
now. The weather's coming in cooler.
47:11
Snow will be coming along soon, ice, sleet and everything else.
47:15
And, you know, your job just gets, you know, more dangerous
47:17
during these winter months. And I pray for all of you to be
47:20
safe and get home your loved ones because you are the most
47:24
important delivery of the day. And if you're going to RIP me
47:27
off, Don, get it right, OK? God bless you all and we'll see
47:31
you on Sunday. You had anything else, James?
47:34
Yes, I am running for. President now, and I am still
47:39
going to be here for every single one of you that listens
47:42
to this channel because you guys are the number one people in
47:49
this craft. Every single one of you is my
47:51
brother and sister and it is time for us to step up and take
47:57
our craft back. People at the top need to
48:02
understand that their one and only job is to listen to this
48:07
craft on the ground, listen to what's going on with them, and
48:11
then their second job is to ensure that we don't lose money.
48:17
In this day and age, people cannot afford to lose money, but
48:22
we have seen it time and time again that they keep taking and
48:27
taking and taking well. It's time for this craft to step
48:31
up and take their positions from them because this craft is
48:35
number one. And when we stand together,
48:38
united as one craft, one body, we show them we're all in this
48:45
together. All right, guys, that's.
48:48
A wrap for tonight and we'll be back Sunday night.