Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEpisode 78: Defeating the hour office time; a short literary composition expository in nature authored by Richard Ray and Sean Killeen
A letter carrier, Richie Ray, successfully grieved a new policy that imposed a blanket 60-minute office time for all carriers, regardless of mail vol…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 77: My state of our Union address
The episode highlights various grievances and concerns raised by members of a union regarding the lack of representation and support from their leade…
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 76: The Shepherd Mike Caref going behind the scenes on upcoming contract negotiations
In this episode, Corey talks about contract negotiations with a guest, Mike Caref. Corey then goes over the 2023 contract negotiations, talking about…
3 years, 4 months ago
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 sto…
3 years, 4 months 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 junc…
3 years, 4 months 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 disagreemen…
3 years, 5 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 …
3 years, 5 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, …
3 years, 5 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 failur…
3 years, 5 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 c…
3 years, 6 months ago