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Tommy Espinoza

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360 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

What this does is it means that before you go career, you're spending all this time, you're effectively a fully trained, full employee, completely capable person. of doing everything that's required of you. You're just not getting any of the career benefits, making a minimum wage. And on top of that, the way our benefits work is it does come out of your paycheck.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

What this does is it means that before you go career, you're spending all this time, you're effectively a fully trained, full employee, completely capable person. of doing everything that's required of you. You're just not getting any of the career benefits, making a minimum wage. And on top of that, the way our benefits work is it does come out of your paycheck.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

It's not like other jobs where it might be a separate package or already calculated in, for instance, a lot of the trades, uh, They'll say, hey, you get 23 an hour, but the reality is you're making around 29 or 30 because you're not paying into your health insurance or your retirement or anything like that. You're effectively making less than minimum wage.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

It's not like other jobs where it might be a separate package or already calculated in, for instance, a lot of the trades, uh, They'll say, hey, you get 23 an hour, but the reality is you're making around 29 or 30 because you're not paying into your health insurance or your retirement or anything like that. You're effectively making less than minimum wage.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

It's not like other jobs where it might be a separate package or already calculated in, for instance, a lot of the trades, uh, They'll say, hey, you get 23 an hour, but the reality is you're making around 29 or 30 because you're not paying into your health insurance or your retirement or anything like that. You're effectively making less than minimum wage.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

You're almost paying to go to work as a CCA. And just to be yelled at and told that you're not going fast enough, even though there's no street standard. But that's getting into a little bit of nitpicky contract stuff about language. But yeah. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

You're almost paying to go to work as a CCA. And just to be yelled at and told that you're not going fast enough, even though there's no street standard. But that's getting into a little bit of nitpicky contract stuff about language. But yeah. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

You're almost paying to go to work as a CCA. And just to be yelled at and told that you're not going fast enough, even though there's no street standard. But that's getting into a little bit of nitpicky contract stuff about language. But yeah. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

The tentative agreement, we spoke about the post office's strategy for dealing with our grievances or how to combat the union last episode. And so for the people that didn't listen to it or just need a refresher, the post office has found this extremely effective strategy that if they just don't agree at any point in our agreement,

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

The tentative agreement, we spoke about the post office's strategy for dealing with our grievances or how to combat the union last episode. And so for the people that didn't listen to it or just need a refresher, the post office has found this extremely effective strategy that if they just don't agree at any point in our agreement,

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

The tentative agreement, we spoke about the post office's strategy for dealing with our grievances or how to combat the union last episode. And so for the people that didn't listen to it or just need a refresher, the post office has found this extremely effective strategy that if they just don't agree at any point in our agreement,

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

in our grievance procedure, which is if they violate the contract and we want to be made whole, whatever that may look like, they can just keep on saying no and push it up to arbitration because there is a grievance procedure that ends up with a third party intervening as well. And if they push enough of those grievances up,

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

in our grievance procedure, which is if they violate the contract and we want to be made whole, whatever that may look like, they can just keep on saying no and push it up to arbitration because there is a grievance procedure that ends up with a third party intervening as well. And if they push enough of those grievances up,

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

in our grievance procedure, which is if they violate the contract and we want to be made whole, whatever that may look like, they can just keep on saying no and push it up to arbitration because there is a grievance procedure that ends up with a third party intervening as well. And if they push enough of those grievances up,

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

we have a major backlog on this process because our final resort is now just the standard of operation. And what that means is that there's nothing to force the post office to comply with the contract. If someone wasn't paid correctly or was missing a whole day of pay, got sent home or was put on emergency placement, which is

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

we have a major backlog on this process because our final resort is now just the standard of operation. And what that means is that there's nothing to force the post office to comply with the contract. If someone wasn't paid correctly or was missing a whole day of pay, got sent home or was put on emergency placement, which is

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

we have a major backlog on this process because our final resort is now just the standard of operation. And what that means is that there's nothing to force the post office to comply with the contract. If someone wasn't paid correctly or was missing a whole day of pay, got sent home or was put on emergency placement, which is

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

a process where they they say you did something dangerous and so they can take you off the clock it could be months or even a year before your case is even looked at they do have a process of course where they try and prioritize it but it's obviously not working

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

a process where they they say you did something dangerous and so they can take you off the clock it could be months or even a year before your case is even looked at they do have a process of course where they try and prioritize it but it's obviously not working

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

a process where they they say you did something dangerous and so they can take you off the clock it could be months or even a year before your case is even looked at they do have a process of course where they try and prioritize it but it's obviously not working