The USPS does not treat us with equanimity. (Yes, they work to cheat us at every opportunity.)
They have no respect or consideration for our craft. They speak of us in demeaning terms, and feel we are easy to replace.
Our NRLCA leadership has proven uninterested in our plight, and impotent in it's unsophisticated attempts to carry out it's mandates.
(On the other hand, they'd make a great paperweight! Maybe Postal Tees could sell one, I could give them as carrier gifts!)
When called out for failing to pursue the interests of craft, they blame us for desiring ethical treatment. They refuse to acknowledge their failure. They proceed in a way that suggests they collude with management. They ignore dues paying members who attempt to communicate.
Hourly, evaluated, salaried, RRECS, piece-work, any pay system; you name it, it doesn't matter -- we are being used and abused.
There is very little accountability for those who are defrauding us and physically grinding us to dust.
Perhaps strategies with better results can be found by observing what more successful unions have done.
@Old Fart has many posts with great ideas on this site. Our national officers are resistant to changing their methods, but they are not the ones too beaten up at the end of the day to play with their children or grandchildren.
The USPS elites will continue to use us up, then berate us for completing the free labor too slowly.
The status quo is going to continue to beat us down.
Yes, I'm down in the trenches, so it makes it hard to see the big picture sometimes. These trenches are filling with effluent, and we may disappear as a craft.
