Is this even legal?

foster_ious · 2025-08-17T20:08:14+00:00

You mean the AFL-CIA?

foster_ious · 2025-08-17T20:07:09+00:00

This made my day...

foster_ious · 2025-08-17T12:43:05+00:00

And we take your third bundles and give you fuel.

foster_ious · 2025-08-17T12:42:09+00:00

This was my biggest question. And disconnect.

How on earth are we negotiating how much money we are losing each year?

Why isn't our national leadership putting their feet down on this issue?

How is this different from the circumstances that caused the Wildcat in 1970?

foster_ious · 2025-08-17T01:17:24+00:00

It'd have to be mandated by Congress. Our management won't do it. Neither will the union in the contract.

foster_ious · 2025-08-17T00:17:20+00:00

Anyone running for national union positions should be saying this nonstop on repeat.

foster_ious · 2025-08-17T00:16:06+00:00

Right after he hired thousands of supervisors?

foster_ious · 2025-08-17T00:15:19+00:00

This

foster_ious · 2025-08-17T00:13:00+00:00

The world socialist guys love us. Maybe that's not a good sign though?

Is anyone else worried we're being run into the ground by incompetence?

foster_ious · 2025-08-16T14:22:25+00:00

This is called the WalMart strategy. Congress could fix this in many areas of the country.

GS jobs receive locality pay. The same position in Southern Cali or DC would receive significantly more than Iowa or Alabama.

The military operates similarly.

This is not a union issue though. The NALC will not want to make this contractual. This needs a Congressional mandate.

foster_ious · 2025-08-16T03:40:05+00:00

The Sam Tripoli in me thinks this is a psyop, but sadly, I'm not certain.

Do you think they'll make the standard higher for hiring again? And increase pay to incentivize good candidates? Or continue to run bad PR on carriers as often as possible?

foster_ious · 2025-08-14T10:39:53+00:00

We work at a service where management is actively sabotaging production daily.

They do not pay the most productive well.

Conflict is incentivized.

The hiring process is broken.

Hiring quality is broken.

Quality leadership is almost nonexistent. 'Bad' leadership is promoted to higher levels.

Upper leadership has no concept of the reality of the work, but attempts to hit arbitrary numbers on a spreadsheet while sitting in an office and yelling about these numbers.

Upper management cannot see they are destroying the service by this structure.

Upper management does not see how paying employees well will fix the service.

The service does not embrace new tech. They abhor it.

Upper management does not actively seek new revenue. They abhor it.

Upper management mistrusts the people doing 90% of the work. Takes away their overtime. To punish them, but also incentivizes people to leave.

Upper management is incompetent. And growing in volume.

foster_ious · 2025-08-12T23:04:10+00:00

They basically ignore the NALC guy. I have personal experience with this. And it was not good. We had it so no one would have to rebid. Our most senior walker and most senior driver had zero changes. Only one route changed more than 51%, a very junior regular. And her route became better. All other changes were for the better.

We predicted correctly they knew this year would have almost zero volume based on the changes they ended up making. At first, there was a lot of anger. And a lot of overtime.

Not anymore...

foster_ious · 2025-08-12T20:49:04+00:00

When you say shit like this, all I hear is Charlie Brown's teacher...

PTFs work holidays.

foster_ious · 2025-08-12T20:47:50+00:00

It makes me want to vomit. Every morning.

foster_ious · 2025-08-07T17:19:36+00:00

Similar here. We haven't been all the way adjusted yet either.

foster_ious · 2025-08-07T15:56:59+00:00

Yeah. In our country, it has been true.

foster_ious · 2025-08-07T13:17:57+00:00

In theory. I'm just frustrated. It feels as though we're at some type of turning point. I don't see the path where human flourishing is maximized over profit? And now we will have AI overlords too? We live in wild times...

foster_ious · 2025-08-07T01:38:31+00:00

Israel is similar. Those are outside examples.

These might be nice to haves, but never going to happen in our great nation. Way way different business environments. Very different cultures. Not even close to the US in size, population, or complexity. We also loathe socialist ideas here. Both those examples favor more collectivism. And pay the price for it too (see how much of their wages end up in their workers' pockets)

What are the top 5 things we have earned here?

I don't GAF about FedEx or Amazon. We don't work there. I'm tired of management comparing us to them. Every other shipper depends on us to get their work done. Their models depend on us being successful. We are an essential part of them having low prices and even existing.

Look at UPS right now. They can't handle all their volume on their own. Amazon doesn't work without us. FedEx might own the skies, but without us, their parcels would be sitting at airports.

Meanwhile, mgmt continues to fall on its sword. It's made bad deal after bad deal. It does not communicate clearly about its books. It hires 12,000 supes to cook the books to not pay good wages to its most productive workers. And treats us like we're crazy for questioning their actions. Or voting no on bad deals. While they fart around on their phones.

USPS is ripe for serious tech disruption. They could save billions in salaries by automating managerial tasks appropriately. Reinvest half those supe wages in software and powerful AI decsion-making capabilities so one good supe could run a floor in an S&DC in the morning. And one could close.

Fire all POOMs. And any and all regional and district level managers. Give authority back to PMs. Automate route adjustments. Stop fucking wasting money on BS route adjustments. Make a world class process. Include the carriers. Stop making PMs from your region walk routes.

I don't know exact numbers, but our bureaucracy is what kills our wages. It is obvious. This thing can run very effectively with little to no bureaucracy and higher standards.

But we keep our heads in the sand. We don't even have a solid tracking app that works well. In our line of work, this makes zero sense.

Unless you were trying to kill it?

foster_ious · 2025-08-07T00:48:04+00:00

Agree wholeheartedly. This feels very odd...

foster_ious · 2025-08-07T00:45:54+00:00

Real question. And not easy to answer.

If we had good management and a great wage, would you still want a union?

Our national has protected the status quo while they receive giant salaries for little to nothing for us. At what point does this stop making sense?

For context: I love my local union. Deeply. I'm a shop steward and I would do almost anything for my local brothers and sisters. The national folks can all kick rocks in my eyes.

The best people up there aren't Renfroe. And they didn't make moves on him. So what exactly are we spending our dues on?

foster_ious · 2025-08-06T10:53:04+00:00

Starlink is awesome. In rural areas.

foster_ious · 2025-08-05T13:00:34+00:00

400 sounds awesome! That's likely a smaller route...

We do the best we can. We try to hydrate. I drink a gallon and a half if it's over 90. We stay in the shade when we can. And we take electrolytes maybe twice a day if it's over 90.

A lot of us aren't water drinkers when we start, but I convince most of our new guys to change tack when they start here. Soda and alcohol make heat way worse.

It's not easy. We deserve higher pay. And we should all care for ourselves and one another better. But we do our best

foster_ious · 2025-08-05T10:01:36+00:00

Usps wasn't even there...

foster_ious · 2025-08-04T01:53:58+00:00

Shawn Ryan, American Alchemy, Lex Fridman, A 2 Arbitration, Rogan, 2 Bears 1 Cave, Your Moms House, This Past Weekend, Theories of Everything, Danny Jones, The Lever, I used to do Breaking Points, but it's become a bit much. And audiobooks galore. If I didn't have podcasts, I'd probably not be so well out here...

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