Hello brothers and sisters, Saturday was great as the Kansas City Chiefs won. FSU Coach Pat Hill always said just go 1-0 every week. I must admit though, that even stickum probably wouldn’t have helped some of the Chiefs receivers this season…… shout out to Lester Hayes….. How do you…

I will start out with a shout out for a management type doing the right thing, by a craft employee. Sadly it is so rare. Let’s get started, in a recent conversation I had with someone, integrity was talked about. We were talking about management willfully and knowingly violating that…

12-30-2023 Penalty Time is back. Go! Go! Chiefs!

https://apps.nlrb.gov/MyAccount/#/ChargeAndPetition/FilingType I know you’re saying what does the National Labor Relations Board have to do with “my” OWCP injury. I will use the word allegedly in this example, because I was not there to personally witness the actual National Labor Relation Act violation. The injured carrier, contacted me to find…

Why, why do some choose not to be honest with what is currently going on? Why, why be disrespectful and lash out, when confronted with the TRUTH? Why is the go to complaint that (insert the City Carrier Advocate’s Name) is always being “difficult” or “disrespectful” when all the advocate…

NALC Branch 231 has a DRT decision that is binding to all of Fresno Installation. It is DRT #F16N-4F- C 20190602 this decision allows a carrier to notify management in writing that they do not wish to be contacted on their personal cell phone.  If after notifying management in writing…

Well the penalty overtime exclusion period(December) is upon us. It started 12-2-2023, and from the reports I have received multiple zone supervisors in Fresno have already seemingly started violating Article 8 even more than they have previously, and I must say that is quite a task…. Anyway sisters and brothers,…

We are having things moving in a positive direction, in regards to management granting steward time at Hughes Station, anyway. At Formal A(thank you), which is binding for Hughes management has agreed to follow step 4 settlement under M-00458 on the NALC website. The important part of M-00458 is “‘Reasonable’,…

I had a management type tell me that I was the only one that cared. Well thank you, and yes I do!!!! I think this management type was trying to insult me or something, but caring for my fellow sisters and brother is why I became a steward in the…

The meeting will be 11-14-2023 at 4466 W Spaatz Ave, Fresno, CA. 93722 at 7:00pm. We are down to the wire to vote on the delegates to go to the National Convention. It’s to late for absentee ballots to mailed, I need everyone to that hasn’t already mailed theirs in…