Posts Tagged ‘USPS’
Congress: Stop Bullying the Post Office
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
With sickening regularity since the crackpots rose to power in Congressional committees, hearings in “the People’s House” have wasted time pounding on government agencies that receive NO MONEY from taxpayers or Congress. The goal? To shame, humiliate, berate, to bully agencies targeted for scapegoating. The Postal Service has been targeted by former car thief (turned millionaire from a car alarm business, irony?) Rep. Issa for elimination.
The false claim is that the Post Office is broke. (And Social Security and Medicare did not cause the recession/depression; investment banker gamblers did.) Turns out that Geo. Bush in 2006 torpedoed the USPS with legislation requiring an unprecedented prepayment of anticipated pension funds to cover 75 years of operation!
Issa’s move is both union-busting and privatization of a cherished American tradition. Here’s the real story behind the headlines pronouncing (almost celebrating) the death of the USPS.
More news to come about this important story.
Tags: 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, APWU, Darryl Issa, USPS
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction, Social Justice, Unions | 1 Comment »
Murder by Proxy doc film premiered July 8
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
The previously announced documentary Murder by Proxy premiered July 8 in Royal Oak, Michigan at the Main Arts Theatre (Landmark Theatres). The film explores the role that a toxic work environment can play in the build-up to workplace homicides while mainly focusing on the US Postal Service. The star is 39 yr. veteran letter carrier Charlie Withers. Experts include criminologist Alan Fox, social psychologist Gary Namie and psychiatrist Michael Welner.
The film will be screened at the Montreal World Film Festival Aug. 26 to Sept. 6, 2010
Interviews with Director Emil Chiaberi and Charlie Withers at the Royal Oak premiere.
If you were at Royal Oak, write your own review here, please.
Read the local Daily Tribune press coverage.
Tags: going postal, Murder by Proxy, USPS
Posted in Announcements | 6 Comments »
Michigan Post Office Bullying Allegations
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
“Postal worker’s bullying allegations draw attention” by John Schneider, Lansing State Journal, Feb. 4, 2010 Read the original article
A postal worker, Ray Miehlke, contacted LSJ columnist Schneider with reports of a “reign of intimidation at the U.S. Postal Service’s Collins Road facility,” and a complaint of a physical assault by his supervisor which was found to have “no merit” by USPS spokesman Jim Mruk. To explain his willingness to speak up while others are intimidated into silence with threats of retaliation, Miehlke said “I’ve lived my life not putting up with bullies.”
Abusive workplaces are not rare at the Post Office. See the following articles posted here:
Another USPS Tragedy The 2010 Murder by Proxy documentary An arbitration where the Post Office defended the bully supervisor claiming the Violence policy does not apply
Tags: Collins Road, Lansing, Michigan, Post Office, USPS
Posted in Social Justice | 2 Comments »
New Documentary Announcement
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Please check out this film! The Drs. Namie and the WBI Legislative Campaign are featured. It’s a documentary that begins with post office homicide and then introduces bullying as a potential toxic feature of the work environment that can set the stage for violence.
“Delivers a potent mix of shocking truth, honest analysis and dark humor”
COMING TO THEATERS IN 2010
Feature documentary Murder by Proxy: How America Went Postal offers a provocative examination of the possible role of hostile work environments in mass murder incidents, starting with the earliest USPS mass murder-suicide in 1986.
At a time when tensions are rising again in the Postal Service and in other workplaces across America, Murder By Proxy is a simply a must-see film.
Spread the word, forward the link to this announcement to your friends
Tags: bullying, going postal, massacre, Murder by Proxy, USPS, violence
Posted in Announcements, Events, Social Justice | 2 Comments »
Guest blog: Another USPS Workplace Tragedy
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
By Stephen D. Musacco, Ph.D. author of Beyond Going Postal
On the morning of June 2, 2009, a city letter carrier went to work and reportedly fatally shot himself in the head in the locker room at a postal facility in Gastonia, North Carolina. The Gaston Gazette online news report stated that the “Gastonia Police are investigating an apparent suicide this morning at the post office. . . . One of the employees is inside dead from a gunshot wound.” (more…)
Tags: arbitration, Fields, going postal, Musacco, NALC, suicide, USPS, violence policy, WBI-LC
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction, Health Care, Social Justice | 125 Comments »
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