Tommy Espinoza

Yeah, it's great to be back.

Yeah, it's great to be back.

Yeah, it's great to be back.

Yeah, Tommy, you want to take that one? Yeah, so just going back to the 1970s, the working conditions for letter carriers were so bad that... Most of them couldn't afford the cost of living. They found themselves in a position where they are working for a quasi-federal position and are finding themselves on welfare, struggling just to find the means to get to work.

Yeah, Tommy, you want to take that one? Yeah, so just going back to the 1970s, the working conditions for letter carriers were so bad that... Most of them couldn't afford the cost of living. They found themselves in a position where they are working for a quasi-federal position and are finding themselves on welfare, struggling just to find the means to get to work.

Yeah, Tommy, you want to take that one? Yeah, so just going back to the 1970s, the working conditions for letter carriers were so bad that... Most of them couldn't afford the cost of living. They found themselves in a position where they are working for a quasi-federal position and are finding themselves on welfare, struggling just to find the means to get to work.

Oftentimes having to work a second job, if they even have time for a second job, because the post office has and still is very good at skipping around a lot of labor laws. I think nowadays people probably work around 60-hour weeks. I think probably at a minimal around 50-hour weeks, especially around the holidays. And it's not just letter carriers. This is

Oftentimes having to work a second job, if they even have time for a second job, because the post office has and still is very good at skipping around a lot of labor laws. I think nowadays people probably work around 60-hour weeks. I think probably at a minimal around 50-hour weeks, especially around the holidays. And it's not just letter carriers. This is

Oftentimes having to work a second job, if they even have time for a second job, because the post office has and still is very good at skipping around a lot of labor laws. I think nowadays people probably work around 60-hour weeks. I think probably at a minimal around 50-hour weeks, especially around the holidays. And it's not just letter carriers. This is

People inside of the distribution centers, inside of the warehouses, things were not good. And on top of the actual working conditions themselves, the environment was incredibly toxic. There was a long history of abuse. You're dangling people's livelihood over their head, Gary. like holding a carrot over them, you know, and it really pushed people to an edge.

People inside of the distribution centers, inside of the warehouses, things were not good. And on top of the actual working conditions themselves, the environment was incredibly toxic. There was a long history of abuse. You're dangling people's livelihood over their head, Gary. like holding a carrot over them, you know, and it really pushed people to an edge.

People inside of the distribution centers, inside of the warehouses, things were not good. And on top of the actual working conditions themselves, the environment was incredibly toxic. There was a long history of abuse. You're dangling people's livelihood over their head, Gary. like holding a carrot over them, you know, and it really pushed people to an edge.

You saw a lot of violence on the workroom floor, not only from supervisors, but from carriers that just snapped. Yeah, it was a time of great disparity.

You saw a lot of violence on the workroom floor, not only from supervisors, but from carriers that just snapped. Yeah, it was a time of great disparity.

You saw a lot of violence on the workroom floor, not only from supervisors, but from carriers that just snapped. Yeah, it was a time of great disparity.

Right. So a tentative agreement is effectively the first draft. When you are going through and negotiating, you will reach a contract where management and the union kind of agree and they put it before their union members. And the idea is that your union members are able to vote on whether or not this tentative agreement passes.

Right. So a tentative agreement is effectively the first draft. When you are going through and negotiating, you will reach a contract where management and the union kind of agree and they put it before their union members. And the idea is that your union members are able to vote on whether or not this tentative agreement passes.

Right. So a tentative agreement is effectively the first draft. When you are going through and negotiating, you will reach a contract where management and the union kind of agree and they put it before their union members. And the idea is that your union members are able to vote on whether or not this tentative agreement passes.

And again, like Adnav was saying, if it gets rejected or if it gets turned down, then it goes back to the drawing board or we get an arbitrator and it goes through a lengthy process. Our specific contract has been under negotiation since before I was in the post office. The amount of back pay that they're going to have to pay on some of these races is kind of insane.

And again, like Adnav was saying, if it gets rejected or if it gets turned down, then it goes back to the drawing board or we get an arbitrator and it goes through a lengthy process. Our specific contract has been under negotiation since before I was in the post office. The amount of back pay that they're going to have to pay on some of these races is kind of insane.