Nicely performed again...Mr. Pritchett. I am quite impressed at how VIGOROUSLY you seek us wronged employees, and how true to the justice you remain. You are not merely clever, but are downright empathetical and powerful. Thanks for us all!

M/129 Thanks so much for the information. No I'm not a veteran and I steal have not heard anything.I will just sit and wait.I called Mr. Cantrell and left a message so I'm hoping he can help.Thanks Again for everything. it's good to know that people really know how this so call good and unethical paying american dream job can be.I love my job don't get me wrong I just have been treated unfair.

/m128
At all costs avoid a LCA. It’s merely a single step to removal for ANY charge that management might raise against you in the future. Make them charge you with something because the burden of proof is always on them. You need to determine the status of your EEO complaint so you’ll know what you need to do next. Don’t bother calling the EEO Commission because they can’t represent you, therefore they can’t help you. With regard to your application for unemployment – APPEAL. Ask for a hearing before an administrative judge. If you need help with that contact the best expert that I know on unemployment, Mr. Tom Cantrell of Salt Lake City. He can be reached at (801) 355-2005. If they are refusing to return you to duty, without pay, that’s called a “constructive suspension”. File another EEO complaint and raise retaliation/reprisal as the basis of your complaint. If by chance you are a veteran (you didn’t say) then you can appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board. Similarly, even if you are not a veteran but do currently have an accepted workers’ comp claim and are placed in a non-work, non-pay status, you can also appeal to the M.S.P.B. You’re union should be explaining these things to you. Unfortunately, most unions aren’t interested in letting you know what other rights you have outside of the contract. Like a junk-yard dog, they’re only interested in their territory. Keep us posted.

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I'm a PTF and I have been employed for 4 years at the post service.We had a new mangemeent team to come in April and my time has been change and even deleted for overtime in the past six months. I have been patience with the supervisor staff at the office. I filed a grievance and a EEO claim because they were changing my time and clocking other full-time workers out who work from 6 hours and they give them 8. Once the supervisor found out that I filed a EEO on them then she claim that I attacked her and threaten her. I was placed on emergency placement with no pay. That was on 9/24/08.Here it is 10/29/08 and I have had three investagative interviews and they have came up with nothing.Nobody knows when I can return to work and I was told that if I want to come back to work I have to admit that I attacked her and come back on a last chance agreement.I have never had any discpline actions before until this new management staff came on.I'm looking for a good lawyer and I hope that someone can help me with want to do. I have wrote the union, postmaster, EEO, and no one is trying to help me get back to work.I have applied for unemployment they denied me.The only other choice I have is to go on welfare. I applied and the staff said that if you make that kind of money you don't need no help.I have lost everything except respect for myself. I'm a single parent with three children and all I wanted was to be paid for the hours I worked.Do anyone know what other options I have.

I have been out on LWOP, pending removal for approximately one year. I know the stress you are talking about. I have done nothing to warrant the removal besides management trying to bend the rules and make me look like a criminal. I had my arbitration on October 15th, now I sit and wait to hear if I am employed or not. I have almost twenty years with the Postal Service, I think this is nothing more than a tactic to remove me before reaching retirement age/qualifications. If there is anyone who can refer me to a lawyer who can rattle a couple of cages, I would be grateful.

Look on Window Clerk forum on PostalMag.com. Seems I again have my 'critics' (nicest polite term I could give) harassing me, again online.

Weird! After all this blogging about Congress and my letter(s) to Rep. Phil English...I learned five hours ago (yes TODAY) that he and his competitor Mrs. Kathy Dahlkemper were having a friggin' debate here in Sharon like half mile away from my home! Yes, DUH, I went. I stayed around as the question I wrote down was never asked of the two...if elected, what will you do to stop the deteriorization of the US Postal Service? I met Kathy first, and can tell she has many ideas and issues that are her primary concerns, before ours (as if that will surprise you all). I was last to get to see Phil English, and I got the Glad to put a face to you thing. Then, in a classic politician way, he immediately tried to find Common Ground by stating he chose to pay extra for the insurance of the NALC. I let him have that one as I agreed our coverage is good, as my last four children were born without incurring take home bills. I wanted to ask my earlier question...when he asked forthright what it is I see needed from this Post Office person. I stated I am alarmed how (like Enron and others) our morale is at all time lows, and our top persons took it upon themselves to make raises for themselves. I was cut short of further query/comment as he looked over my shoulder and stated he was 'getting the hook to go'. I wasn't too impressed tonight, either way (from a Postal perspective) but, heh! I went and intended on making a difference.

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I was driven to hospitalization from harassments. I stayed six and a half days, got help, and now am out of the corner they backed me into. Fight back...do not quit.
BTW...I am still waiting on my discrimination EEO claim and its five or six RETALIATION issues...since November 2007. Slow, and seems unfair how unproductive it appears. Go out of this box and fight into Congress. They oversee us still. It is an election year and this helps. Do not even give in to the trials and tribulations until you have GIVEN all your efforts!

STRESSED...DO NOT, REPEAT...DO NOT GIVE UP! Read on. We have to make our stand now.

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10-12-2008 08:42 PM ET (US)
 Fellow workers...it has been asked below if my letter could be used as template or to assist in writing other letters to our congressmen. I say it behooves you to do so. it wasn't more than like seven months ago that a fellow poster on these forums showed their letter to the Congress...and we all (yes even I then as well) shut it away as perhaps a good idea or good effort. We SHUT it away. Things demanded actions from Congress then, as they oversee us. What think you of the deterioration(s) since! I put up with two full years of injustices, harassments, job raping (yes I know what I called it), and heartless persons in 'authoritative positions' inside of this Service paid to correct such actions...all of which THEY DOWNPLAYED each and every action. If the guys paid to oversee the overseers care not, go up another level. If you run out of levels within... go outside the "P.O. Box!" ;-) Edit
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 Leon, /m10630 read your letter to your congressman, and have shared it with others, would you mind if some of us used it as a template to contact our congressmen as a show of unity and concern? Edit
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 A well written letter posted on the CLERK FORUM, maybe we should follow his example : In case you were wondering...
Rep. Phil English
US House Of Representatives
2332 Rayburn House Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20515-3803

Oct. 8, 2008

Dear Congressman,

I have been overwhelmed in Sharon, PA. Fighting a battle which is really yours to fight. I am disheartened that so many visible and evident witnesses to how this US Postal Service is being mis-Managed and run to the ground from the Highest Level have as yet yielded such low effort from this Congress.

In any other big organization, it is evident that Congress is ‘cracking down’ on big name CEO’s and other leaders for doing EXACTLY what is being allowed by Jack Potter, Postmaster General and his group of eight or nine (CEO’s) ‘Vice Presidents’. While setting himself and his buddies up for life with blanket 39% pay raises this year, he has single-handedly spoken “doom and gloom” to media and his employees and has made little effort to show true character and fight for the common worker...of which he oversees around 780,000 of us. He has shown that, during his tenure, talk of LAYOFFS, 5-day postal delivery days, privatization, and other “Service” killers will be his game-play.

With suicides in this “Service” now happening at alarming rates, many workers being driven out early by consistent and unethical damaging harassments, and the likelihood being consistently dinner-table talk amongst my peers of someone breaking...and going “Postal” in this country again, it is clear that this Congress must act swiftly and morally!

I have kept you informed of the multiplicity of issues around this “Service” in your neighborhoods in Sharon and Hermitage, PA.. I have already asked for action.

Buy back my vote and my fellow workers. Be there for us. Benjamin Franklin would be horrified to learn of how this mail effort has deteriorated unto a main-stream mockery. Nobody would have fathomed such perilous times for an “American Institution” such as the US Postal Service. Yet even less would have thought it would be run to the ground literally by a band of thieves, as Potter and his VP’s.

I look forward to your efforts, and do now hope you continue your efforts on our behalf into another term. God Bless.

       Respectfully,


       Leon B. Nichols
       Sharon, PA. 16146

I've never worked for a more disrespectful selfish employer as i have with the post office. I have no problem with my job, it all has to do with starting at the top with management, postmasters, supervisors, etc..It is the most depressing, tense, and stressful environment to be in.

Hey stressed you think you have it bad welcometo my world.

If you are not happy with the steward in your office, go over his head to some of the officers in your local.
Are you a member of your local union?

M114
I don't really have one person I can go to (I think it is referred to as a member @ large).
There is a Carrier Union Stewart @ our facility, but he hasn't done a darn thing for any of the Carriers there.
In the couple years I have been with USPS, I havne't been too impressed with the Union.
I am starting to see why everyone @ my facility told me it was a no win situation. They have all tried and got nowhere too.
It sucks...

Yeah, I've been out for like six months and can't handle the stress of the job. It's taken a toll on me mentally and physically.

You should be able to get the resignation form from your manager or HR office. Are you sure you want to quit? Times are tough!

I want to resign from the postal service how do I go about doing so?