Corey Walton discusses USPS financial troubles, reduced overtime, unrealistic office-time expectations, and what he considers NALC leadership’s failure to challenge management. He criticizes national interpretive disputes delaying unrelated grievances, Step B decisions remanding discipline cases for additional evidence, and inadequate remedies for safety violations.
The episode’s primary focus is management’s falsification of letter carriers’ clock rings. Corey discusses incidents in Louisville and New Orleans before examining a Nashville East Station grievance involving unsupported alterations to carrier operation codes.
He reviews a March 2025 arbitration decision by Arbitrator Zachary Clay Morris, which sustained the grievance, ordered management to cease and desist, awarded $250 to each affected carrier and $500 to the branch, and prohibited future reliance on inaccurate records.
Corey explains how stewards can investigate suspicious clock-ring alterations, identify applicable contractual violations, and pursue meaningful remedies when management repeatedly disregards previous settlements.