Podcast Episodes

Episode 75: Trapping a lion. Julio Cesar Chavez. Grieving Management removing our hard plastic trays from our cases

Corey discusses a grievance filed in 2014 regarding the placement of hard plastic trays used for mail delivery. Management instructed carriers to store the trays away from their cases, contradicting …

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Episode 74: My Dad, a removal, is your business agent a shepherd or a sheepherder? Dealing with relevancy letters.

Corey discusses relevancy letters, removals, and formal step A meetings. He emphasizes the importance of the formal step A process as a critical juncture for building a strong case. Corey recounts a …

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Episode 73: Reviews. Grieving residual mail in the DPS

The episode is about residual mail and the DPS process. Corey discusses several arbitration cases related to this issue, highlighting the disagreement between the union and management about how resid…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Episode 72: JB, the expert, dealing with Management performing craft work. An expert doing expert things as only an expert can.

This episode is a discussion about how to identify and grieve violations of the union contract when a 204-B supervisor is performing bargaining unit work. Corey emphasizes the importance of keeping d…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Episode 71: Question and answer time with Executive Vice President Brian Renfroe.

A discussion between Corey and Brian Renfroe, executive vice president for the National Association of Letter Carriers. They discuss several topics, including:

The new "TIAREAP" process: This new pro…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Episode 70: Special guest the honorable Mike Caref, Business agent region 3, rubber banded to my microphone. Topics cover non-compliance and failure to follow instructions

This episode features Mike Caref, Business Agent Region 3. Caref discusses remedies for non-compliance grievances and disciplinary actions for failure to follow instructions, particularly regarding m…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Episode 69: Buster Douglas, the mirror and the note from the principal's office. Effectively grieving Management not allowing us to case SPRs and Management attempting to hold us to 5 minutes pm office time.

This episode discusses two prevalent issues among postal workers: management's imposition of a 5-minute PM office time limit and the prohibition of casing Special Handling Parcels (SPRs). Corey empha…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Episode 68: The love affair. Effectively grieving management changing our start times.

This episode focuses on the grievance process regarding management's practice of changing start times. Corey emphasizes the importance of a "searing, zealous, torrid love affair" for letter carriers …

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Episode 67: Beating the Red Line Policy (its coming to a station near you). Talking TIAREAP. A follow up to the knock and drop policy.

In this episode, Corey discusses TIAREAP and redline policy, two policies that affect mail carriers and their routes. He gives a detailed explanation of TIAREAP and reads a document from a friend abo…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Episode 66: William Wallace, picking a fight the 3996 and 1571

Corey starts by acknowledging that he messed up the audio for last week's episode, which was very long, and apologizes for the inconvenience.

He then moves on to discuss a few things he wants to add…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago