I have been carrying mail for more than 20 years, and our working conditions have continually deteriorated. Our job is more difficult than when I started my career in 1984.
Most of the mail is sorted by machines now. When I started carrying mail we would case all of the mail. We could be sure of what we were delivering. With the advent of machines, management is unable to process the mail in a more reasonable time frame. Shouldn’t mechanization adjust to us, not the other way around?
I am also a Shop Steward for my union, and have been for about 20 years. Grievances have increased tremendously in the last 10 or 12 years. Management continually tries to change our working conditions unilaterally. There is no longer any respect for their employees from management. The real truth is that we can do the job without them.
My theory is that we send all the managers home for six months. We pay them to stay home instead of coming to work. I am certain that we will be able to prove that we can run the company more efficiently without them. Then we bring them all in for an interview and offer them real jobs in the crafts, or they can resign. It is time to stop the waste and the harassment.
The sad part is that I know that I am in better shape than most working people in this country. We must join together and turn this around. There is no way that my children, or yours, should have to live and work for a lower living standard then what we have enjoyed.
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