ePISODES

Episode 119: Grieving the Decision letter instead of the Notice of Proposed Removal. Beating management's timeliness argument.

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Regional Awards for Persuasive Value

• C-12205 – Britton
• C-20825 – Duda
• C-24356 – Reeves

Step 4 Settlements

• M-00939
• M-01137

Episode 118: Effectively grieving TV screens on the workroom floor displaying our route data. Brought to you by members of Discord.

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Episode Cites

Regional Awards for Persuasive Value

• C-28556 A&B

Grievance Starter

• TV Screens Showing Individual Performance (.docx)
• TV Screens Showing Individual Performance (.doc)

Episode 117: Let's get back into an Arbitration.

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Episode Cites

Regional Awards for Persuasive Value

• C-35809 – JSOV
• C-32094 – JSOV

Episode 118: Effectively grieving TV screens on the workroom floor displaying our route data. Brought to you by members of Discord.

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Episode Cites

Regional Awards for Persuasive Value

• C-28556 A&B

Grievance Starter

• TV Screens Showing Individual Performance (.docx)
• TV Screens Showing Individual Performance (.doc)

Episode 115: Episode 115: The Anatomy of a Removal.

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Episode Cites

Regional Awards for Persuasive Value

• C-36248 – Removal

Episode 116: Mr. John Poskin gets in depth about Article 29.

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Episode Cites

JCAM

• Article 29

National Arbitration

• C-18159

Regional Awards for Persuasive Value

• C-32491
• C-32696
• C-36258

Episode 113: Rally Us. It's Time for Our Leaders to Lead.

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Episode 114: Attacking Letter of Demands.

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Regional Awards for Persuasive Value

• C-00511 – Letter of Demand
• C-20126 – Letter of Demand
• C-22427 – Letter of Demand
• C-34086 – Letter of Demand

Episode 111: Some More Muddled Bullsh*t and a Refresher Course on the Past Practice of Doing Union Work, on the Clock, at Our Union Hall.

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Episode Cites

Regional Awards for Persuasive Value

• C-34447 – Past Practice
• C-34614 – Past Practice

Episode 112: Some Tidbits. Article 18 - No Strike. Shut That Talk Up.

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Episode 109: It Has Officially Hit the Fan!

The media talks about Letter Carriers' working conditions and Congress gets involved.

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Episode Cites

Congressional Inquiry

• Letter from Congress

Step B Decision

• HIPP Impasse

Episode 110: Come at Me Bro.

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Episode Cites

Step by Step Guide

• How to verify who falsified your training 

Episode 107: Everything You'll Need to Defeat Roll-Away Run-Away Discipline.

How to beat discipline for Roll-Away Run-Away.

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Episode Cites

• Roll Away – Case File
• FFV Video

Episode 108: Article 10 Charges Levied Against Brian Renfroe.

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Episode Cites

• Article 10 Charges Pages 1 – 3
• Article 10 Charges Pages 1 – 18
• The Lion of Region 9 – Email

Episode 105: I'm Not the One, Pony Boy. Everything We Need to Beat Stationary Events Discipline. Business Agents Quit Selling us Out.

How to beat management's 60 minute Office Time and Stationary Events.

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Episode Cites

• Area Update Article

Regional Award for Persuasive Value

• C-32778 – Stationary Events

Step 4 MOU

• M-1458 – Performance Standards

Handbook M-39

• Section 115 – Discipline
• Section 134 – Street Management

Area Labor Email

• Stationary Event Email

Episode 106: For Our Brother Eugene Gates Jr. Your Passing Will Not be in Vain.

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Episode 103: My Ideology, Discussing the Arbitrators View on Management Requiring Medical Documentation for Calling in Sick 3 Days or Less.

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Episode Cites

Regional Awards for Persuasive Value

• C-04195 – Med Docs Required
• C-04209 – Med Docs Required
• C-04436 – Med Docs Required
• C-04897 – Med Docs Required
• C-04974 – Med Docs Required
• C-19250 – Med Docs Required
• C-30959 – Med Docs Required

Episode 104: Special Guest Mr. Cole Billups Goes in Depth About the Anatomy of a Grievance File.

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Episode Cites

Fillable Forms

• Request for Information
• Request for Steward Time
• Informal A Meeting Form
• Formal A Appeal Form

Training Material

• Analyzing the EER

Episode 101: Playing Chess With Our Heat Training Grievance. Salted Peanuts and Grieving Certified Mail in the DPS.

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Episode Cites

• C-17898 – Removal-False Documentation
• C-28539 – Falsifying Clock Rings
• C-32489 – Removal-False Statements
• C-34357 – Removal-False Statements
• Certified Letter Policy and Impasse

Episode 102: Fight For Our Safety and Understand Our Rights.

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Episode Cites

Regional Awards For Persuasive Value

• C-00308 – Information
• C-01030 – Due Process
• C-31908 – New Argument

Episode 99: JB's Salted Peanuts. 3999 & Demonstrated Performance. Grieving Return to Work Letters Requiring Signatures

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Episode Cites

• PET Guide
• Step B – Welcome Back Letter
• M-00005 – 1 Day Count
• M-00111 – 1 Day Count
• M-00829 – Standards
• M-01769 – Office Efficiency Tools

Grievance Starters

• Article 15 – Locally Developed Forms
• Article 15 – Signing Local Forms
• Article 19 – Failure to Provide PS Form 3996 When Requested

Episode 100: Salted Peanuts. Basics on the Informal A Meeting and the Importance of 613 Time

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Episode Cites

• C-30984 Past Practice

Episode 97: Me & From A to Arbitration

My thoughts and reasoning for the direction our podcast is moving.

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Episode 98: Spicy Salted Peanuts with an Emphasis on HERO Training Falsification

Manufactured office times, bastardized load times, and management's lies!

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Episode Cites

HERO Casefile

• RFI & Language
• JCAM
• EL 801 – Chapter 1
• EL 802 – 4-1 (f)
• EL 814 – Introduction
• ELM 811.21 – 811.25
• ELM 812.3 – 812.51
• ELM 817.9
• ELM 821.141
• FY-22 HIPP
• HIPP Postal Bulletin
• Steps to Add Training

Camaras

• Arbitration – August
• Arbitration – Holley
• Arbitration – Kenis

Rallies & News

• WCCO NEWS
• LABOR NOTES
• Zoom Registration

Episode 95: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend. Salted Peanuts

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Episode Cites

• Medical Restrictions

Episode 96: The Possum or The Lion, Which is It? Salted Peanuts

This episode discusses Safety, the Load Truck Feature, and Locally Developed Forms.

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Episode Cites

• C-34211 – Local Forms
• C-34874 – Local Forms
• C-34924 – Local Forms
• C-35552 – Local Forms
• C-35989 – Local Forms

Template

• Load Truck Case File

Episode 93: Salted Peanuts

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• Link to 1838C talk

Episode 94: John Poskin Doing Some Salted Peanuts as He's Rubber Banded to My Microphone

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Episode Cites

• PS Form 8190
• JCAM & LMOU
• M-01170
• M-01360
• M-01437
• Step B Decision
• C-28478
• C-33749
• C-35624

Episode 91: I Love You

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Episode Cites

• Letter

Episode 92: Forgiveness and Salted Peanuts

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Episode 89: Memphis, Jason Atchley & Hope for a New Beginning

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Episode Cites

• C-36043 Interim Award
• Final Award

Episode 90: Bob Ross aka JB Doing a Bit of Salted Peanuts

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Episode Cites

• Handbook M-32
• M-00605

Training Slides

• PTF Refresher Course
• EER Training

Template

• PM Office Duties

Episode 87: Shatter the Damn Podium, Article 8 & Muscle Memory.

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Episode Cites

• Overtime Worksheet

Training Slides

• Eight is Enough
• Article 8 Training Slides
• Letter Carrier Paragraph and 12/60

Templates

• Casing SPRs & Turning a Letter

Episode 88: THE Mike Caref, National Business Agent Region 3, getting us ready for collective bargaining. Special thank you to Cole Billups for saving my sanity.

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Episode 85: Salted Peanuts with an Emphasis on Management's Denial of Advanced Sick Leave Requests.

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Episode Cites

• C-00191
• C-08199
• C-22546
• C-26893
• C-29815

Episode 86: Salted Peanuts

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Episode Cites

• C-05230
• C-08170
• C-11163
• C-13221
• C-13823
• C-30829

Episode 83: The quitter the coward and the Boogeyman

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Episode 84: Vincent Sombrotto - Captain My Captain!

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Episode 81: I Forgot. Salted Peanuts.

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Episode 82: Eight is enough: Basics of Article 8. Authored by Chris Strickland & Jason Atchley. Narrated by Corey Walton.

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Episode Cites

• Training Slides

Episode 79: The distinguished Mr. John Poskin educating us on grieving transfer denials.

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Episode Cites

• Language and M-01223
• Transfer Step B #1
• Transfer Step B #2
• C-31639
• C-32958
• C-33461

Episode 80: JB and an ode to a good friend. JB goes in depth about quarterly overtime grievances. From the From A to Arbitration team, Merry Christmas happy holidays and we will talk to y'all next year.

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Episode Cites

• C-03200
• C-06364
• M-00124
• M-01391
• M-01517
• M-01886
• TACS Codes

Templates

• Quarterly Grid
• Quarterly Contentions

Episode 77: My State of the Union Address.

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Episode 78: Defeating the Hour Office Time; A Short Literary Composition Expository in Nature By Richard Ray and Sean Killeen.

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Episode Cites

• C-13671
• Step B Decision
• Full Case File
• Summary Slides

Episode 75: Trapping a Lion. Julio Cesar Chavez. Grieving Management Removing Our Hard Plastic Trays from Our Cases.

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Episode Cites

• Empty Equipment at Carrier Cases

Templates

• Case File

Episode 76: The Shepherd Mike Caref Going Behind the Scenes on Upcoming Contract Negotiations.

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Episode 73: Grieving Residual Mail in the DPS.

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Episode Cites

• C-33659
• C-34279
• C-34983
• C-35023
• The Postal Record Article

Templates

• Residual in the DPS

Episode 74: My Dad, a Removal, is Your Business Agent a Shepherd or a Sheepherder? Dealing with Relevancy Letters.

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Episode Cites

• Dealing with Relevancy Letters

Episode 71: Question and Answer Time with Executive Vice President Brian Renfroe.

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Episode 72: JB, The Expert, Dealing with Management Performing Craft Work.

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Episode Cites

• M-00357
• M-00537
• M-00755
• M-00891
• M-01177
• M-01426
• Video Clip

Training Guides

• TACS EER
• Analyzing the EER
• DOIS Guide
• DOIS Training Slides
• RIMS User Guide
• PS Form 1723

Templates

• MGT Performing Craft Work
• Failure to Provide 1723

Episode 69: Buster Douglas, The Mirror and The Note From the Principal's Office. Effectively Grieving Management Not Allowing Us to Case SPRs and Management Attempting to Hold Us to 5 Minutes pm Office Time.

Episode Cites

• PM Office Duties – Casefile

Grievance Starter

• PM Office Duties
• Casing SPRs and Reversing a Letter

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Episode 70: Special Guest the Honorable Mike Caref, Business Agent Region 3, Rubber Banded to My Microphone. Non-Compliance and Failure to Follow Instructions.

Episode Cites

• C-35858

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Episode 67: Beating the Red Line Policy (It's Coming to a Station Near You). Talking TIAREAP. A Follow Up to the Knock and Drop Policy.

Episode Cites

• C-32369
• Red Line Kickoff and Training Deck
• Red Line SOP
• Back Door Mgt Log
• C-30421
• Knock and Drop

Episode 68: The Love Affair. Effectively Grieving Management Changing Our Start Times.

Episode Cites

• C-23986
• C-29717
• C-33356
• C-34444
• Fixed Office Time
• Summary Slides

Grievance Starter

• Mgmt Changing Start Times

Episode 65: JB Goes in Depth About the Grievance Procedure/Process, CCAs Doing Rural Carrier Work & the Workhour/Workload Report.

Episode Cites

• Article 15 Chart
• M-01197
• M-01276
• C-35027
• C-35695
• DMS Route Detail Report

Grievance Starters

• CCAs Assigned Rural Work
• Failure to Provide Steward Time
• Failure to Provide Information or Interviews

Episode 66: William Wallace, Picking a Fight, the 3996 and 1571.

Episode Cites

• C-25035
• M-01366
• M-01769
• C-29394
• M-00304
• M-01444
• C-33998
• M-00829
• M-00536
• C-29981A-B
• M01458
• M-01216
• C-31406
• M-00326
• C-32470
• M-01664

Episode 63: Making Sure We are Grieving Unsafe Scanner Messages and Other Tidbits.

Episode Cites

• Investigatory Interview
• Letter of Warning
• Thermometer

Episode 64: Humbled, Branch 11 'The Beautiful Ones', Why I do What I do aka The Mechanic, My Eviction Notice, Tidbits and City/Rural Disputes.

Episode Cites

• City vs Rural Info
• MGT Prefilling  3996

Episode 61: I Know What You Did. Discussing the New Memos. M-1982 and M-1984

Episode Cites

• M-01982
• M-01984

Episode 62: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. M-01983

Episode Cites

• M-01983

Episode 59: 1 Year Anniversary Baby! Dealing with PET. Making Sure we are Prepared to Battle Management When They Use PET.

Episode Cites

• NALC PET Guide
• C-32453
• C-32693
• C-32755
• C-33015

Episode 60: A Tainch of Encouragement and Dealing with Managements' Constant Violations of the 12 and 60-Hour Rule.

Episode Cites

• Article 8.5.G
• ELM 432.32
• C-06238
• C-07323
• C-25902
• C-30957
• M-00859
• M-01180

Episode 57: The Power of the 8190 and The Fangs of the Jackal. Protecting Our Routes and Other Assorted Goodies.

Episode Cites

• M-00341
• Knock and Drop
• Parcel Step B
• Fingering Mail Step B
• Fingering Mail Casefile

Episode 58: A Conglomeration of Route Protection Wonderfulness. Making Sure We are Getting Every Second We are Due.

Episode Cites

• Letter Carrier Perfect – Office
• Letter Carrier Perfect – Street

Training presentations were built and provided by: Steve Hedgecock

Episode 55: How to Deal with a Toxic Co-Worker. Protecting Your Flock.

Episode Cites

• Publication 552
• USPS Policy on Workplace Harassment
• M39 Section 115.4

Episode 56: The Rooster and the Hens. Defeating the Charge of AWOL on a Non-Scheduled Day.

Episode Cites

• ELM 510 – Leave
• Handbook F-21

Episode 53: An homage to my mentor Lew Drass & the Wolf James Henry. Dealing with Heat Related Grievances.

Episode Cites

• Heat – Casefile
• Thermometer

Episode 54: Ergonomics, My Foot and Protecting Our Brothers and Sisters from Long Term Injury.

Episode Cites

• Ergonomics – Casefile
• Ergonomics PreArb

Episode 51: Special Guest NBA Mike Caref, the challenge. The Expert Dissecting Article 16.7.

Episode Cites

• C-10146 A&B
• C-33314
• C-35341
• C-35629
• C-35702

Episode 52: JB The Dog Trainer Dealing With DOIS, PET, 3996 and Red Line Policy.

Episode Cites

• C-28556 A&B
• C-32453
• C-32693
• C-32873
• M-00005
• M-00031
• M-00111
• M-00326
• M-00385
• M-00536
• M-00814
• M-00829
• M-01216
• M-01444
• M-01664
• M-01769
• Step B – Verify Count
• M-39 Section 222.214(a)
• NALC PET Guide
• MGT Prefilling 3996

Episode 49: The Saga of the Formal Step A. Being the King and Queen of Your Installation.

Episode Cites

• Article 15.2
• C-34731

Episode 50: Defining Mitigating Factors. Grieving Unsafe Scanner Messages.

Episode Cites

• C-32205
• C-30679
• B4-00354-20 Casefile

Episode 47: The Autobiography & the Greatest Holiday Scheduling Breakdown Ever Recorded. By: Jason 'JB' Leath

Episode Cites

• Article 11
• Article 30
• C-02975
• C-06775
• C-17582
• M-00150
• M-00859
• ELM 434.4
• ELM 434.5
• Training Slides
• eRMS 410F0

Templates / Casefiles

• Holiday Scheduling

Episode 48: The Inmate & The Informal Step A Meeting. Be About That Action!

Episode Cites

• C-01191
• C-11177
• C-30354
• C-35465
• M-01065
• M-01517

Episode 45: Jeremy McCall, the Patriot, the White Pages & Defeating the WOO and DOV

Episode Cites

• M-01548
• Summary Slides

Episode 46: Bad Ass Bresee, the Test, and Discussing Article 5 & Past Practice Grievances

Episode Cites

• C-34447
• C-30984
• C-34614
• C-20253

Templates / Casefiles

• Extended Lunch – PP
• Union Work – PP

Episode 43: General Hospital, AJ Breaux, Lake Charles & the Escalated Monetary Award

Episode Cites

• C-31620
• C-03200
• C-06238
• C-31146
• C-31269
• C-32792
• C-33023
• C-34197
• M-01517
• M-01967

Episode 44: Dispatch of Value, Window of Operation & My Grandson. Beating the WOO and DOV

Episode Cites

• Article 8.5
• C-13181
• C-26675
• C-31146
• C-32315
• Summary Slides

Episode 41: The Fruit Basket, the Sell & Deems Desirable. Jason Leath Goes in Depth on Deems!

Episode Cites

• C-33650
• C-35201
• M-00002
• M-01597
• ELM 511.42
• ELM 513.361
• eRMS 260F0
• eRMS 515F0
• eRMS Handbook

Episode 42: The Cease and Desist, the Four Ways Stop & the Night Stick. Dealing With and Escalated Monetary Award

Episode Cites

• C-34731
• C-31812
• C-32315
• C-31620

Episode 39: Final Episode of the JSOV. Mgmt Position. The Rant. The 300, the Snitch & the Coward

Episode Cites

• C-33993
• Summary Slides

Episode 40: Last Chance Agreements (LCA) & the Arbitration

Episode Cites

• M-01760
• C-00239
• C-01030
• C-01760
• C-10846
• C-11112
• C-16475
• C-16970
• C-34816
• Award for LCA Discussed in Episode

Episode 37: Yellow Jackets, the Lion and Documentation for the JSOV

Episode Cites

• C-15697
• C-20643
• C-32076
• C-33831
• C-35122
• ELM 665.24
• M39 Section 115.4
• M-01242
• M-01243
• M-01488
• M-01518
• Mgmt Post Brief
• NALC Post Brief
• TN District Appeal
• TN Zero Tolerance
• USPS Policy on Workplace Harassment
• Summary Slides

Episode 38: The JSOV Issue Statement and Remedy

Episode Cites

• C-33831
• C-35122
• C-35441
• Summary Slides

Episode 35: Opting-The Most Thorough Hold-Down Training Available! Presented by: Jason Leath

Episode Cites

• Summary Slides

Episode 36: A Prelude to the JSOV. A Pep Rally for the Joint Statement on Violence and Behavior in the Workplace

Episode Cites

• Summary Slides

Episode 33: Article 31 Information. Short but Oh So Sweet!

Episode Cites

• C-10363
• Summary Slides

Episode 34: Wrapping Up Discipline and Putting it all Together

Episode Cites

• Summary Slides

Episode 31: Corrective Rather Than Punitive. Lets Think Outside the Box

Episode Cites

• C-00557
• Summary Slides

Episode 32: Article 17 and Our Rights to Requested Information or As I Like to Call it the Mosquito, the Deadliest Killer of All.

Episode Cites

• C-10363
• C-33968
• C-34816
• Summary Slides

Episode 29: A Huge Win for the NALC and Escalated Monetary Awards!

Episode Cites

• M-01967
• C-34197
• Summary Slides

Episode 30: Defeating CCA Discipline. Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together

Episode Cites

• C-00557
• C-33500
• C-34218
• C-34761
• Summary Slides

Episode 27: Just Cause Principle: Was the Severity Reasonably Related to the Discipline Itself?

Episode Cites

• Summary Slides

Episode 28: Just Cause Principle: Was the Disciplinary Action taken in a Timely Manner?

Episode Cites

• Summary Slides

Episode 25: Just Cause Principle: Is the Rule Consistently and Equitably Enforced?

Episode Cites

• Summary Slides

Episode 26: Just Cause Principle: Was a Thorough Investigation Completed?

Episode Cites

• C-31277
• Summary Slides

Episode 23: Just Cause Principle: Is There a Rule?

Episode Cites

• Summary Slides

Episode 24: Just Cause Principle: Is the Rule a Reasonable Rule?

Episode Cites

• Summary Slides

Episode 21: Examples of Behavior. Public Defender or Clarence Darrow. Who Are You?

Episode Cites

• Summary Slides

Episode 22: Article 16.1, Getting Ready for the Just Cause Principles

Episode Cites

• Summary Slides

Episode 19: Article 16.8 Review of Discipline, Concurrence of Suspensions or Discharge

Episode Cites

• Summary Slides

Episode 20: Article 16.10, The Discipline Killer

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