So after 10 months of fighting for my backpay for my misposted route, the NRLCA denied my appeal for arbitration. They are really trying their best to cover up this RRECS mistake. They continued to deny any wrongdoing, but are finally agreeing to pay me the wages they owe me. Funny, I'm being paid all the way back to the day I started, so somehow my route is now officially rated at a 48K overburdened. It wasn't misposted though, the day I started it just happened to change from a 43K to 48K overburdened.
Even though they agreed to pay me and split the route in their unilateral settlement, they still refuse to split the route, saying they simply don't have the workers. Nope, instead of splitting my route, they are now forcing me and some others to work one of our days off every other week. So not only do they ignore unilateral settlements, but they double down and punish us more. The day I came back from using vacation time to fight this, they had left a weeks worth of mail at my station that somehow didn't get delivered. I refused to deliver it, don't know who did, but really?? That's just petty.
Well, gee how about instead of stealing money from us through RRECS, overworking us, lying about all the issues and mistakes, manipulating mail count to take even more and increase our workloads, you actually follow contract, agreements, stop treating us as disposable and pay a living wage? These changes may actually get people to want to work here.
USPS and NRLCA still deny any wrongdoing, but unilaterally made all decisions without informing me and denying my information requests while they conspired together to cover up this mistake. I have 3 signatures from the same supervisor that are completely different during this process, one using her nickname.....? I also have proof of the grievance being backdated. Funny, how the supervisor that dealt with this grievance just retired from the union, the same time they sent me my arbitration appeal denial. Also the supervisor with forged signatures that dealt with this NRLCA steward on my grievance was transferred to another office, no idea why, but she didn't see it coming. Very interesting indeed.
NRLCA finally sent me the only copy of my initial grievance I have ever seen. I requested this for 10 months and now this NRLCA rep (that told me they don't do arbitration and to hire a lawyer) sends this mystery grievance form, along with citing only part of article 15.1 stating they can do whatever they want completely using it out of context. They can't unilaterally make these decisions, no matter how much they think they can. Narcissism is a common trait with this union. The cherry on top is the fact that line 3b has no initial, making it null and void. It also HIGHLY suggests the grievance was backdated, which is why I was never allowed to see it until now.
The reason the NRLCA is all over you the minute you hire on, is because you are already represented by them and grievances (worthless btw). They want your money for nothing! The ONLY benefits you receive from them by paying them $70+ a month is: Insurance benefits (can find much better deals), monthly magazine, now this is exciting! and stewards to represent you (in my case this is a detriment). Why do you think they make it so hard to leave? You can only resign from the union once per year no more than 20 days and no less than 10 days from your anniversary date.....It's all a con, like most things these days.
Oh and they did the same thing to another carrier in my office. He had a misposted route worse than mine and they conned him into signing a document stating his route became overburdened after the fact and they would give him his overtime pay in vacation time. I couldn't believe he agreed to it, as he'll probably get straight time converted to vacation and lose his overtime pay. Sneaky they are. My sub also has to fight for her correct 10 months of backpay now that mine is documented, so she got totally shafted as well.
After all this it's hilarious that the NRLCA have filed their own Step 4 grievance against USPS, when they knew what they were doing agreeing to RRECS. It's simply smoke and mirrors to make us think they actually care. What they did to me in this grievance process shows they are corrupt to the core and do what they want.
Even though they agreed to pay me and split the route in their unilateral settlement, they still refuse to split the route, saying they simply don't have the workers. Nope, instead of splitting my route, they are now forcing me and some others to work one of our days off every other week. So not only do they ignore unilateral settlements, but they double down and punish us more. The day I came back from using vacation time to fight this, they had left a weeks worth of mail at my station that somehow didn't get delivered. I refused to deliver it, don't know who did, but really?? That's just petty.
Well, gee how about instead of stealing money from us through RRECS, overworking us, lying about all the issues and mistakes, manipulating mail count to take even more and increase our workloads, you actually follow contract, agreements, stop treating us as disposable and pay a living wage? These changes may actually get people to want to work here.
USPS and NRLCA still deny any wrongdoing, but unilaterally made all decisions without informing me and denying my information requests while they conspired together to cover up this mistake. I have 3 signatures from the same supervisor that are completely different during this process, one using her nickname.....? I also have proof of the grievance being backdated. Funny, how the supervisor that dealt with this grievance just retired from the union, the same time they sent me my arbitration appeal denial. Also the supervisor with forged signatures that dealt with this NRLCA steward on my grievance was transferred to another office, no idea why, but she didn't see it coming. Very interesting indeed.
NRLCA finally sent me the only copy of my initial grievance I have ever seen. I requested this for 10 months and now this NRLCA rep (that told me they don't do arbitration and to hire a lawyer) sends this mystery grievance form, along with citing only part of article 15.1 stating they can do whatever they want completely using it out of context. They can't unilaterally make these decisions, no matter how much they think they can. Narcissism is a common trait with this union. The cherry on top is the fact that line 3b has no initial, making it null and void. It also HIGHLY suggests the grievance was backdated, which is why I was never allowed to see it until now.
The reason the NRLCA is all over you the minute you hire on, is because you are already represented by them and grievances (worthless btw). They want your money for nothing! The ONLY benefits you receive from them by paying them $70+ a month is: Insurance benefits (can find much better deals), monthly magazine, now this is exciting! and stewards to represent you (in my case this is a detriment). Why do you think they make it so hard to leave? You can only resign from the union once per year no more than 20 days and no less than 10 days from your anniversary date.....It's all a con, like most things these days.
Oh and they did the same thing to another carrier in my office. He had a misposted route worse than mine and they conned him into signing a document stating his route became overburdened after the fact and they would give him his overtime pay in vacation time. I couldn't believe he agreed to it, as he'll probably get straight time converted to vacation and lose his overtime pay. Sneaky they are. My sub also has to fight for her correct 10 months of backpay now that mine is documented, so she got totally shafted as well.
After all this it's hilarious that the NRLCA have filed their own Step 4 grievance against USPS, when they knew what they were doing agreeing to RRECS. It's simply smoke and mirrors to make us think they actually care. What they did to me in this grievance process shows they are corrupt to the core and do what they want.
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