jm /m899 It is time to contact your NBA. Untimely on grievances at Formal A! This is a joke! What if one of the grievances happened to be a removal issued to you? You would have been screwed! Explain to the members what happened to the grievances. Let them decide what to do. Wake your VP's a$$ up with NLRB. Remind your VP that lack of representation will have him/her to a labor charge, even civility.
I understand about your position of superseniority. If your VP is not supporting you, then you should reconsider different options. I have 12 FTRs junior to me right now. I am not worry at all. Right now, I fight my own battles.

Take no Crap I bet that target is not as big as mine on your back. When you literally have managers spoof call you and follow you home and intercept your cases through the mail because you win all the time, is just a little of what I endure on a daily basis. I keep up the fight and they cannot stand it. I smile and go to work everyday and give them hell. Like you I have filed so many grievances that my Top president for the union called me and stated I had flooded the grievance arbitration procedure and that any problems I have, I am to call DC and then the problem is immediately resolved. That is what it had boiled down too. Any time I feel agitated, I leave, no questions asked, and no leave slip filled out. This has been for 20 yrs and counting. I look at it this way. I did not cause the war, but I will end it with mounds of paper. I really get a kick out of the employees that do not fight and let management run all over them. Disciplinary action is such a joke and so is retaliation. Retaliation runs rampant in this business and the more I stick it to them, the more satisfied I am. I can actually say that a fairs day work of paperwork and suits is a fairs day pay. I have been off the floor in my office for almost 20 yrs as they know 100 + Nlrb charges have been posted in the past that I cannot be unreasonably denied official time. I literally had to bring all my paperwork home as one night the lock was cut on my file cabinet and the door lock drilled out. Luckily all my documents were already gone. I can ramble on and on as everything I have is tabbed, dated, timed and a brief of what happened on manila folders. I have at least a good five years left and all of that will be doing what I love best. With that said paperwork and driving these piss ant managers crazy is fun for me. I told a manager today that the last thing I would want to be known for when I die is to be known as an a!@#$%^&. He stated are you talking about me? I said absolutely and he walked away. What a great day. Seriously folks if you need help I will give you my honest opinion. You can cash that at the bank and collect interest! Godspeed----

This case today was very unique. As the employee spoke of their burdens this supervisor was doing, I had noticed this manager was not even looking at the interpreter and directing their focus on the employee. This supposedly hard hearing and deaf manager understood every word I had mentioned but claimed that they could not understand the employee when they spoke. I mentioned that to the parties at the table and they all agreed that the manager was deaf but also caught this act during the negotiations. I mentioned this to the manager and quickly it became a blame game. I excused the complainant and the manager out of the room and kept one senior manager in to negotiate. We came up with the offer of the supervisor being moved to a different station, a written apology and that the letter to be posted on the work floor for a period of 90 days. The complainant also was awarded 1500.00 for the anguish they had been through. All parties agreed that this will be binding and that within 30 days if this settlement if the situation persists with the manager even relocated in a different station, the complainant will file a breach of settlement. The pay will be reflected expeditiously as possible and should reflect in the upcoming pay period. It was a good day. Tomorrow I have another case involving a carrier getting a 7 dayer for getting into a LLV accident when they were not at fault. Oh boy this will be fun. Shortly several of my top paper pushers including myself, will try to expose how the OIG receives promotions on there point system. The bigger the bust they make they get promotions. If a crime of let's say theft occurs for one piece of mail they will shy away from it. If the bust consists of thousand of articles of mail they will be all over it as the above stated "The bigger the bust the bigger the boost". Sad but true. I spoke with one of my close OIG agents and they stated the same on the promotion system. Like all cases handled, this will be interesting and time consuming. The truth will be told. Godspeed----