Decertify NRLCA and TEAM UP with a more powerful UNION
^^ current campaign to decertify the union found on the link above and on THIS POST! Thousands have already signed but we need more!
Decertify Union Petition
^^ print this off and have any and all carriers at your office and surrounding offices sign (regulars, ptfs and RCA's are al eligible to sign).
Podcast on Decertification of the NRLCA
^^Ron Speakman talks with one of the men behind the decertification of the NRLCA
^^PLEASE LISTEN TO THE PODCAST or visit the website for info regarding this process! We are not going to be without a union and we will not move to a union with unfavorable terms! We will stick with NRLCA if we have to! You are signing ONLY to hold a vote, not to immediately decertify the Union!
John mails out petitions to people who can not print, and he must do this with his own money. PLEASE donate if you can to help him with postage. Click this text for his GoFundMe page. Thank you!
The only way go fix things is to replace our union. It is not getting better anytime soon and no reason to believe it ever will. Current union is useless and they have no power over the USPS because they imposed a no strike clause. What was once a union that advocated for us and fought for us has been replaced by one that continually appeases the Postal Service that fills their pockets. This is a conflict of interest and it must be changed.
Here are just a few ways the NRLCA has failed us:
The inability to purchase back RCA years
2 tier pay system
Comply now grieve later
Withholding back pay for years
No interest on back pay
Cheated out of Covid parcel volume and Amazon for a period
2nd trips for misthrows
Routes over 48k only receive 48K pay (there should be no cap. Cut the route if it's that over burdened but pay the fair wage until it's adjusted!)
Vehicles without A/C and heat
Constant harassment about being "on call" but no "on call" pay and no real rule
Not making it easier to transfer across states (city side has a much better system)
RRECS being implemented and pay being cut before the kinks were worked out
RRECS as a whole
---add your gripe with them here, the list is long
My hope is that everyone would help with this initiative and do something about it in their station and surrounding stations. Go around and collect signatures (it doesn't take long), print and post the signature page in your office, repost the link on other platforms and Rural carrier groups, get in contact with your local media about rural carriers having enough and collecting signatures to switch the union. Exposure is necessary right now and we only have months left before our window closes.
I have been collecting signatures in my area and we are attempting to get the news involved. Anything that you can do to push this cause and get these signatures would be great. By this time next year we could be a part of Teamsters and in a far better position then we are now. Good luck to us all and I hope to see us under a stronger union next year!
IMPORTANT LINKS TO ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, ETC.
Federal News Network Article on Decertification
Everything USPS with Jay H talking about the decertification
Live Interview with Jay H about decertification - Maston’s lies addressed
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** UPDATE - 08/26/26 **
Article has been posted on NRLCA website.
Would be nice if the lies got addressed.
It did make me wonder if Maston was completely unaware that the RRECs numbers were posted online by the union for all of us to see? Only 36% of routes stayed within a fluctuation of 1-3 hours (so less than that stayed within 1-2 hours like he stated). Only 6% of routes stayed unchanged, damn near 20% lost more than 8 hours! Another 27% lost 4-7 hours! A total of 66% LOST money with RRECs, so the carriers don't know where the bell curve is that he’s talking about?
Bell Curve: A bell curve describes the shape of data conforming to a normal distribution
It was a steep drop for nearly 50% of employees. 16 thousand new routes now have to work 6 days a week! How does that conform to a normal distribution?!! Even they were blind sided!! “Most routes will go up or down by an hour or 2”… remember them telling us that? They were so far off, 50% lost greater than 4 hours!! And now Maston doesn’t want to address this and wants to say it’s 5 years of mail decline at once?! So what made you think 1-2 hours of fluctuations a year ago? Wasn’t there 4 years of declining mail volume when you guys made that statement?! It is obvious that NRLCA is in bed with USPS, they do anything to appease the post office at this point. NRLCA …. You don’t work for the post office, you work for US!
Not to mention that no one was given sufficient training, non dues paying members were not given access to critical information regarding their pay, and RRECS was implemented knowing that it was not close to 100% accurate, not to mention the countless questions we still don’t have answers to.
^^ current campaign to decertify the union found on the link above and on THIS POST! Thousands have already signed but we need more!
Decertify Union Petition
^^ print this off and have any and all carriers at your office and surrounding offices sign (regulars, ptfs and RCA's are al eligible to sign).
Podcast on Decertification of the NRLCA
^^Ron Speakman talks with one of the men behind the decertification of the NRLCA
^^PLEASE LISTEN TO THE PODCAST or visit the website for info regarding this process! We are not going to be without a union and we will not move to a union with unfavorable terms! We will stick with NRLCA if we have to! You are signing ONLY to hold a vote, not to immediately decertify the Union!
John mails out petitions to people who can not print, and he must do this with his own money. PLEASE donate if you can to help him with postage. Click this text for his GoFundMe page. Thank you!
The only way go fix things is to replace our union. It is not getting better anytime soon and no reason to believe it ever will. Current union is useless and they have no power over the USPS because they imposed a no strike clause. What was once a union that advocated for us and fought for us has been replaced by one that continually appeases the Postal Service that fills their pockets. This is a conflict of interest and it must be changed.
Here are just a few ways the NRLCA has failed us:
The inability to purchase back RCA years
2 tier pay system
Comply now grieve later
Withholding back pay for years
No interest on back pay
Cheated out of Covid parcel volume and Amazon for a period
2nd trips for misthrows
Routes over 48k only receive 48K pay (there should be no cap. Cut the route if it's that over burdened but pay the fair wage until it's adjusted!)
Vehicles without A/C and heat
Constant harassment about being "on call" but no "on call" pay and no real rule
Not making it easier to transfer across states (city side has a much better system)
RRECS being implemented and pay being cut before the kinks were worked out
RRECS as a whole
---add your gripe with them here, the list is long
My hope is that everyone would help with this initiative and do something about it in their station and surrounding stations. Go around and collect signatures (it doesn't take long), print and post the signature page in your office, repost the link on other platforms and Rural carrier groups, get in contact with your local media about rural carriers having enough and collecting signatures to switch the union. Exposure is necessary right now and we only have months left before our window closes.
I have been collecting signatures in my area and we are attempting to get the news involved. Anything that you can do to push this cause and get these signatures would be great. By this time next year we could be a part of Teamsters and in a far better position then we are now. Good luck to us all and I hope to see us under a stronger union next year!
IMPORTANT LINKS TO ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, ETC.
Federal News Network Article on Decertification
Everything USPS with Jay H talking about the decertification
Live Interview with Jay H about decertification - Maston’s lies addressed
——————————————————
** UPDATE - 08/26/26 **
Article has been posted on NRLCA website.
Would be nice if the lies got addressed.
It did make me wonder if Maston was completely unaware that the RRECs numbers were posted online by the union for all of us to see? Only 36% of routes stayed within a fluctuation of 1-3 hours (so less than that stayed within 1-2 hours like he stated). Only 6% of routes stayed unchanged, damn near 20% lost more than 8 hours! Another 27% lost 4-7 hours! A total of 66% LOST money with RRECs, so the carriers don't know where the bell curve is that he’s talking about?
Bell Curve: A bell curve describes the shape of data conforming to a normal distribution
It was a steep drop for nearly 50% of employees. 16 thousand new routes now have to work 6 days a week! How does that conform to a normal distribution?!! Even they were blind sided!! “Most routes will go up or down by an hour or 2”… remember them telling us that? They were so far off, 50% lost greater than 4 hours!! And now Maston doesn’t want to address this and wants to say it’s 5 years of mail decline at once?! So what made you think 1-2 hours of fluctuations a year ago? Wasn’t there 4 years of declining mail volume when you guys made that statement?! It is obvious that NRLCA is in bed with USPS, they do anything to appease the post office at this point. NRLCA …. You don’t work for the post office, you work for US!
Not to mention that no one was given sufficient training, non dues paying members were not given access to critical information regarding their pay, and RRECS was implemented knowing that it was not close to 100% accurate, not to mention the countless questions we still don’t have answers to.
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