Comments on: Update: EEO Class Action For Postal Employees Placed Under National Reassessment Process

By: marglo

marglo — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:33:28 +0000

I’ve had 3 knee injuries in the past 18 yrs. Have 2 knee surgeries and will a knee replacement, my rotator cuffs are worn and torn, had 2 rotator cuff surgeries on same shoulder and still not any better, my carpal tunnel has returned. Had knee surgery in june of 2009, 5 weeks later had the rotator cuff surgery, 3 weeks later the manager called me told be I needed to be back at work, went back to work on limited duty, honestly was overworked being on limited duty. On 06/25/10 some one from OIG came in, the supervisor, my union steward and myself all sat in the conference room. OIG gave instruction to supervisor and supervisor relayed instructions to me even though we were all in the same room. They wanted me to sign a form 2499, according to my restrictions, doctor stated that I could work full duty but only case for 2 hrs. and deliver for 2 hrs, with no weight restrictions. They wanted me to sign the 2499 in which I would agree to work from 7 am to 11 am. That is only 4 hrs. of work the other 4 hours I would have to either take sick leave, annual leave,LWOP or file a CA-7a. The man stated that I had 10 minutes to agree or decline to sign the form. I stated I will not sign form 2499 until I speak to the union district representative, because my union stewart had no knowledge of what was going on. Unable to contact the rep. left a message only. Told them that I would not sign, man said ” you”re not signing meaning yor”re not accepting the job offer”? I said “I’m not signing not because I’m refusing the job offer but because I do not understand the form 2499, and I will not sign a legal form without representation”. The man said ” Well you can sign this form and challenge it later”. I could not help but smirk at his statement and said “sorry but I will not sign”. The man picked up the phone, called his superior then hung up. In front of me, instructed the supervisor to give me a leave slip, and several other forms and stated that I would be clocked out at 10:30 and I could not come back from 06/25/10 until 07/03/10; the mans’ last statement was ” okay ma’am we will come back with a different proposition; and so I clocked out, went home pretty distressed, I e-mailed my state senators, my state represented with the information. Not sure, what transpired in between, but the next morning my supervisor text me at 4:30 am, it said come to work and report at 7 am. I arrived at 7 am ask the supervisor what my duties were for the day, he stated “they want you to stay in the swing room all day”, I said “Okay” as I turned around to walk to the swing room the supervisor said “never mind just do what you normally do”. Went back to the doctor my restrictions were fully duty and only deliver 2 hrs. Well they have me casing 5 to 7 hours, delivering express then deliver 2 hrs of mail. Since both my shoulders hurt, and I have to case with both hands if I have to case above my shoulder. I’ve been thinking should I hurt in both shoulders by casing all these hours, or hurt on one shoulder by delivering by whole route. Well, I called the doctor told him to release me to complete full duty, because I’, tired of having pain on both shoulders,might as well have pain on only one.Filed and EEO complaint for disability discrimination, should I use an EEO union stewart are get an attorney?

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:04:10 +0000

I am to an injured employee since 2007. I was given permanent modified accomodations. NRP came in effect here in El Paso Tx for me on 18 Aug 2010. My permanent accomodations was taken away, which I worked 8 hours a day as a modified clerk. I was given 8 hrs on monday and 6 hrs for the other days and owcp pay for the 2. I truely beleive that a wrong does’t make a right and god will fix what it takes to make it right, no matter how long it takes. I was treated like crap since the nrp came into affect and management doesn’t care. I hope and pray everyone thats making all these desicions that are wrong end up in a position the same as we. I hope the lawsuit helps also. I am stuck and I really don’t know what to do now. My union has filed a grievence, but you can’t do an eeo and grievence for the same thing. There are no lawyers I have found here in El Paso. I hope a lawyer see this and e-mail me. God Bless all injured employees that we will be ok.

By: Danielle Bethune

Danielle Bethune — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:09:58 +0000

@Goldheart…you are absolutely right!! The first time I was put off the clock..I wrote to my Congressman along with my Union Steward…not only did I return to work..I was paid ALL of my backpay from six months…on top of the Unemployment benefits that I was entitled too!! Words on the web…mean nothing if they are not heard or seen by the people that are supposed to see them!!

By: Danielle Bethune

Danielle Bethune — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:06:46 +0000

@Nene..First off…All the disrespect..screw you!! Don’t tell me ish about the Postal Service until you can speak English!!Who gives a rat *ss if you worked 3 years, 13 years, or 30 years!!! HURT IS HURT!!! Prior to me working this job, I was healthy!! So what the hell does that have to do with if I worked there 30 years or not!! Are you in management to make such stupid, insensitive *ss comments…I am in college finishing out my degree so I will no longer have to keep using my body…before I can’t walk anymore…You sound like you need to return back to school!! Furthermore…How do you end your last letter with God Bless…then turn around in talk disrespectful!! I thank God you are not an OWCP claims examiner!!! For everyone else…I wish you all luck on your claims and I hope you never have to endure such disrespect from a fellow co-worker!! WTF does me working 13 years have to do with OWCP not wanting to pay!! Thank Goodness I already had an attorney from my last injury..otherwise…I would be screwed like most of my co-workers now!! Karma is a B*TCH…nene..so watch your Karma and the words you use out of your feeble minded mouth!!

By: goldheart

goldheart — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:35:40 +0000

if all of youon this site use your writing skills to contact the congress you will get a better response than asking each other for answers, where there are many there is power.

By: matty demeo

matty demeo — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:55:30 +0000

my dear fellow injured workers. I was not only fired for my on the job injury but went to jail!! I won my case with a eeo, but 3 yrs later they told me there is no work. all the work I was doing is now being done by managers. I have not been back to work since 12/7/2009, and had to get unemployment. I am still fighting the dept of labor for my pay. the postal service is sick and I know this would never, never go on in private businesses. we all should get our union to do a march in front of the post office. the papers and news would eat this up. why are we not doing anything about this!!!people need to know whats going on!!!

By: Alvin Hicks

Alvin Hicks — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:16:10 +0000

I overheard management on several occasions insisting they wanted to higher up the illegal aliens to do all of the work the craft workers do at minimum wage. Somethin’ else. Why don’t we just replace them as well with illegal aliens at minimum wage?!?!? That’ll fix everything at the USPS. You know, with this sort of ‘attitude’towards people/each other, it’s know wonder this country’s economy remains in the toilet for so long, stinkin’ up the planet. No wonder. And how come these managers can’t manage more than one office?? And these Postmaster’s more than one city or county, while they are constantly harassing/badgering craft employees to do more actual WORK than they can perform without injury??? Why can not we expect the same of them?? (management) REALLY good question, is it not?? Let’s get the managers/supervisor’s/postmaster’s to do more and more ‘managing’ until they finally ‘crack’, and then make them ‘prove’ they have ‘cracked’ under the pressure at their own expense, then fire them for filing an ‘on-the-job-injury’ report form. Yeah!!! Then make them file EEO after EEO conmplaint and refuse them their EEO rights into oblivion. That would be FAIR and EQUAL. Would it NOT??? Who dissagrees?? Fair is fair.

By: Alvin C. Hicks, Jr.

Alvin C. Hicks, Jr. — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:22:14 +0000

PLEASE SOMEONE HELP HERE!!!

By: Alvin C. Hicks, Jr.

Alvin C. Hicks, Jr. — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:21:03 +0000

Please excuse the spelling. Something with this website graphics input section, can’t ‘see’ right side proper. needs fixed. Am requesting help here though. My lifes work to ‘get where I was’ with my humble mailhandler career has been literally stolen from me, totally wrongfully. I was 50 on 25MAY’07 with a totally ‘clean’ record, on and off duty. These criminals in charge in the USPS should be ‘fired’ in shame, not me. I ‘commited’ no crime here. They did.

By: Alvin C. Hicks, Jr.

Alvin C. Hicks, Jr. — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:10:59 +0000

Was stationed in Arlington, Va., was in the/NRP program and was never even notified. Everyone knows the USPS maintains a ‘MEDIEVAL’ type working conditions in its, especially ‘outer-facilities’. No ‘truely’ LIFTING fork lift(s) (just ground level) and there should be ‘spring-lift’ bottoms in all of the APC units to provide repetative lifting ‘help’ like the ‘old’ bungy- canvas hampers. I requested this over and over. Normal’ accomodation(s), never the less for ‘aging’ or dissabilities. Forever refused. Plus management refused to simply, continuousely, ‘deal’ with certain, usually the ‘overtime-obsessed’, always trashing the office, then ‘abusing’ employees like me to due even more ‘bending-stooping-lifting’ duties on ‘top’ of the usual duties instead of properly ‘dealing’ with the ‘blatent’ insubordinates properly and processing THEM for termination. I was, by a 204B Trainee Supervisor, physically and sexually assaulted on approx. 21MAY07 and reported it to the manager who refused to take corrective action against the supervisor. I already knew about the ‘prohibition’ on filing ‘on-the-job-injuries’ and did not do it ‘right-away’, and probably would have not if the manger/supervisor did not ‘blatently’ lie about it, so I did (fill out the ‘CA’ USDL-OWCP form(s) for both the injury(s) and the mental damage done by the ‘stress’ of it all (explained) The same managers unlawfully ordered me of the premisses on 25MAY07 and commenced to process me thru two abitrations and terminated me totally illegally. The Ex-Postmaster bald faced lied to the arbitrators about my/ the ‘PRB’ ‘issue’, saying I was ‘insisting’ I could not do the job (mailhandler) after years of requesting the above explained ‘normal’, never the less ‘aging’ accommodation(s) detailed above. The ‘reason’, af course (real reason) was because they were ‘protecting’ the 204B trainee supervisor. Everyone ‘involved’ was African American. I am a ‘Half-Breed’ Caucasion/American-Indian. The supervisor who assaulted/sexually assaulted me still has his ‘protected’ NRP position as an African American, enjoying doing Craft work at level 16 pay like he has for over a decade now, while I am jobless, homeless, broke, a can not find gainfull employment as an honorably decorated US military vetern of just under ten years, and just ‘up-to’ the detailed here, ALL honorable service with the USPS for just under 19 years. Need an attorney (pro-bono, contingency) ASAP. The USPS management simply refused to even process the ‘CA’ forms and fired me , illegally. I suffer from ‘ongoing’ severe clinical depression without medical coverage to ‘help’ after this, and can no ‘further’ deal with this criminal activity I am a victim of. I desparately need an attorney as detailed. PLEASE HELP. Have an EEOC complaint in ‘Appeal’ status as of 08OCT08, an need the ‘age discrimination’ issue detailed filed in the US District Court. Been searching everywhere and no ‘pro-bono/contingency’ one((s) are ‘available’.