Good morning, I apologize for not keeping much information about what is going on in our Union nowadays. I only hear about what is going on via my fellow employees. Their moans and groans about what is wrong in our Union and in the Postal Service. From what I gather so far a lot of folks are wondering just what our Union has been doing for us during this period that we are in now. People talk about being excessed, having to change tours due to jobs being abolished or consolidated, decreased mail volume and many other items that effect our lives.
Well I have thinking about it quite a bit. Yes, I consider myself fortunate to work for the Postal Service and to have our Union working to make this a better job. I could picture our job it we did not have the Union and their representatives working to our benefit. The majority of us would not be as well off as we are now. In this majority of individuals I include anyone who is a craft employee and most of EAS employees. The reason I include the EAS employees is that whenever the craft employees are getting their raises and benefits increased so are the EAS employees many of which belong to NAPS. The Postal Service if it could would love to get rid of the majority of its employees if it could. Because like any business the employees are a major cash drain. Instead of paying employees the wages and benefits that we recieve now. The Postal Service would love to employ individuals who would make only mininum wage with no or minimal benefits.
Look around you... how many jobs do you know of can give you up to 26 paid days of vacation time each year. This does not include the holidays that you are off either. Or would you rather work for someplace like Mervyns, Circuit City, or even Linen & Things or similar stores? You think we have it bad working in our respective areas well the stores I named above the employees have it a lot worse than either you or I. Care to change places with anyone who works there? I think I will stay where I am at and continue to strive to make our Union and the Postal Service something that all of us can be proud of.
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What a bunch of shit. The union gave away the AFSM jobs. Left us clerks to fin for our self with ptr jobs. The Union boss only care about there our self and the meoney. There kissing the manager ass. Not fighting for our jobs.
Lokk at how they are so soft of what ever the manager do here. Then look at other places on there web sites there again the management.
Numbers 15:15-16, 30-31
(New Century Version)
15 The law is the same for you and for foreigners, and it will be from now on; you and the foreigners are alike before the Lord.
16 The teachings and rules are the same for you and for the foreigners among you.' "
30 " 'But anyone who sins on purpose is against the Lord and must be cut off from the people, whether it is someone born among you or a foreigner.
31 That person has turned against the Lord's word and has not obeyed his commands. Such a person must surely be cut off from the others. He is guilty.' "
and
Proverbs 11:16-21
16 A kind woman gets respect,
but cruel men get only wealth.
17 Kind people do themselves a favor,
but cruel people bring trouble on themselves.
18 An evil person really earns nothing,
but a good person will surely be rewarded.
19 Those who are truly good will live,
but those who chase after evil will die.
20 The Lord hates those with evil hearts
but is pleased with those who are innocent.
21 Evil people will certainly be punished,
but those who do right will be set free.
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Yes I am very thankful for my job. I am also thankful that it is a union job. I also realize that with bad management comes bad plans, bad ideas, and ultimately, failure of a company to succeed and grow. Look at the major 3 USA auto companies.
And we are completely at the mercy of the guys in charge of operations at the USPS. The union can't decide who gets the management positions that affect working stiffs. They just have to deal with the aftermath.
And I have discovered that the battles take a long long time, and some are not won. But, most of us here have survived cuts, excessing, tech and mech changes, and are still here earning a paycheck.
I think mr anonymous 9:32 needs to start coming to meetings, reading the national website, and maybe taking some prozac to calm his rage. It isn't becoming and goes to a point I am going to make later in this comment.
The union could not prevent the DBCS from taking away all of our LSM jobs. Boy, that was a great job, crews with schemes, actually using their brains at work, a thing of the past now. LSMs with 18 people traded for a DBCS run by 2 people. What the hell was anyone supposed to do to prevent that?
The FSMs will be replaced before the RI-399 gets heard. It is a temporary machine, 10 years at best. And we're already into a few years of that decade of a lifespan.It takes 15 years to get a RI-399 case decided.
The future is in the retail units, people, not at the plant. Especially if you are getting old, tired, and your body parts are wearing out from plant work.
And I must add this, from observing the caliber of people hired over the past 26 years.
The past 4 years of hiring has not been inspiring. Some are okay, career quality types. Most are lazy, unintelligent, uncaring, ungrateful, and not an asset. They work as though they have put in 30 years already, slow, with nothing to prove, no gratitude, no urgency. Some are downright stupid and can't remember from day to day any simple repetitive task. And many of them will be excessed into the carrier craft next year.
Is that really so bad?
The USPS today at the MTAC meeting announced an unprecedented route adjustment process as a result of a joint effort between the USPS and the NALC. The USPS said it needs to eliminate 9200 city carrier routes in FY 2009 in order to meet its budget goals. It said the route adjustments could impact 50 million addresses, 85,000-90,000 carrier routes and 5,000 delivery units. The USPS already has eliminated 1100 routes a change that took effect November 15.
So we will be excessed into the carrier craft next year. The carrier are having there trouble too. I don't know were you got your info. Anonymous November 22, 2:28 PM. I think you are wrong!! My carrier says there making he route longer. And if we do get excessed to the carrier craft we would be the 1st to go anyway.
We would be jr. So I guess just be thankful that Obama is going to save us all....... What me worry...
Can anybody please tell me what it's all about? I heard something the other day and I think I might have an idea but I'm not really sure. Would somebody please tell me what it's all about?
Thanks
re: *Something to be "Thankful" for*
Since we are near the eve of the Thanksgiving Holiday and at the threshold of the 2008 Holiday Season, what comes to mind for me is an article published several years ago in the Reader magazine (weekly, usually available for free in many swingrooms on Fridays) titled "The Meaning of Life."
Do you know what is the Meaning of Life?
The Meaning of Life can be simply stated in one sentence.
Once you learn it, you may want to remember it forever.
(It's really quite profound.)
Ready?
The Meaning of Life is to know Love and to serve God.
"If" is a poem written in 1895 at age 30 by English author and poet (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (born in Bombay, India, December 30, 1865 and died in London, England, January 18, 1936, at age 70) and first published in Kipling's 1910 collection of short stories and poems. He is best known for his works The Jungle Book (1894) and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1902), his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), If— (1910); and his many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
"If" was first posted on this apwudictatorship blog last year, but I believe it is worth reconsidering in light of current circumstances.
[IF]
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
(by the way, November 23, 2008 7:05 PM,
It's all about: Choices)
Good attitude! Be thankful for what has been given to you. Count your blessings. Don't dwell on negatives. Things could be worse. Much worse. Be thankful for your job. Be thankful for your health, if you have your health. Be thankful for your family, if you have a family. Be thankful for food, clothing and air to breathe. Most human beings do not have all of these things already. We should have been grateful for all of these things, already, every day of our lives. Reminds me of-
"Big Yellow Taxi"
originally written and performed by
Joni Mitchell
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel, a boutique,
And a swinging hot spot.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Hey, farmer, farmer, put away that D.D.T., now!
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees, please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Late last night I heard the screen door slam.
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
ORIGINAL LYRICS
© 1966-69 Siquomb Publishing Co. BMI
Look at Postal reporter link is here. USPS Pacific Area Two-Tour Initiative Information.
WOW! Just like I thought.
Cut Mail Handlers by 282 -
Cut Clerks by 1098
That's almost 4 clerks for every mail handler.
Go get em Burris!!! Piss em off real good!!!!
Maybe just maybe if us clerks will keep paying our inflated dues, when Burris and the other APWU Union elites retire with their double pensions and bloated Thrift Savings Plan and Union 401k's they can hire some of us as butlers, house cleaners, or chauffeurs?
The Union is our friend!!!!
I'd like to thank God that Congress did not allow the Bush administration to implement the privatization of Social Security as the President was trying to sell it to the public for years. Privatization would have invested our Social Security Benefits into the Stock Market. That way, the Bankers could have stolen not only our Pension Benefits and Retirement Plans, but also our Social Security, too!
Thank you for THAT oversight, Congress!
auto industry going caput, but obama is gonna creat 2 mil new jobs in 2011 that will have people building bridges paving roads, etc.
This is kinda like a tech and mech change, move assembly workers over to the hard core heavy equipment operating physically demanding construction work.
I am wondering if the USPS is going to ask government to include the excess postal workers from all crafts and EAS in this public works make work program too.
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