Episodes
Episode 163: Some Novelties and Special Guest John Poskin.
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Episode 162: My rant, my union, and the cold hard truth of who we work for. Not for the faint of heart!
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Episode 163: My interview of Mr. Tyler Vasseur with Build A Fighting NALC
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Episode 160: Question and answer period with presidential candidate Mike Caref: Part 1
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Episode 161: Talking Union with Colin Smalley and Chris Dols from the IFPTE
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Episode 158: Salted Peanuts, the Panel Report, and Mr. Chris Jackson's Rebuttal.
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Episode 159: Mid-week surprise. Interview with Mr. James Brennan, candidate for Director of Steward Operations for the NLRCA.
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Episode 156: Interview With David Noble Part 1
Episode 157: It will be the Wolf, James Henry. I set the record straight. My conversation with Region 2 National Business Agent Nicholas Vafiades.
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Episode 154: Salted Peanuts
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Episode 155: The Ultimate Salted Peanuts
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Episode 150: Salted Peanuts
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Episode 151: Publication 552 and the IMIP Process.
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Episode 148: Building a Fighting NALC
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Episode 149: JB and an experts guide to defeating the "One Hour Office Time"!
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Episode 146: The Weir Report - Part 2
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Episode 147: Salted Peanuts and a Special Guest. One man's redemption against Otis and Stay Puft!
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Episode 144: Dereliction of duty and the neutering of our DRT.
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Episode 145: The Weir Report - Part 1
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Episode 142: Memphis mini-series. Part 4 - 'The Closing'
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Episode 143: Lions doing Lion type shit.
Episode 140: Memphis mini-series. Part 2
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Episode 141: Memphis mini-series. Part 3 - The Formal Step A
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Episode 138: Hey prez, step up for our B-Teams and other ramblings.
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Episode 139: Memphis mini-series. The Postal Inspector
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One-Hour Office Time
Episode 137: everything you'll need for 'Act of God' grievances.
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- 3 Acts of God PPT
- Act of God Case File – Belle Meade Station
- Act of God Contentions – Belle Meade Station
- Act of God Case File – Bellevue Station
- Act of God Contentions – Bellevue Station
- Act of God – Union Contentions
- Act of God – Information
- Administrative Leave – Checklist
- Administrative Leave – Management PPT
- Act of God – Management Stand-Up Talk
- Act of God – Management Contentions
- Act of God – Management “How to Defeat Grievance”
- Act of God – Management Arguments
- Request for Admin Leave – Management Log
- Request for Administrative Leave – Management Individual Worksheet
- Act of God – Management Background Page
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Episode 135: ACTIVISM!! My interview with Tyler Vasseur from Branch 9 in Minneapolis, a star in the making for the NALC
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Episode 136: For my friend
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Episode 133: Back inside the arbitration room. Closing arguments for management editing clock rings. Thanks to Cole Billups for his expertise.
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Regional Awards for Persuasive Value
Episode 134: Some salty salted peanuts. The grievance of the month-the 39-hour report
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Episode 131: Assorted goodies and getting back inside the arbitration room via an emergency placement.
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Episode 132: Our year-end review and what to expect for the new year.
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Episode 129: Let's Talk
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Episode 130: Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured? Making sure we all have a seat at the NALC table!
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Episode 127: Salted peanuts...kinda
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Episode 128: Salted Peanuts
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Episode 125: Salted Peanuts
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Episode 126: Conditioning the Frog
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Episode 123: My opinion, The Observer, Management weaponizing the 1838c.
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Episode 124: Salted peanuts with an emphasis on Management instructing us to curtail mail forcing us into an undertime status.
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Credit NALC Branch 3825
Episode 121: Salted Peanuts.
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Episode 122: Additional charges against our President and Executive Vice President. My pound of flesh.
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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
Step 4 Settlements
Episode 120: Undertime and Management's new City Delivery Pivoting Opportunity Model (CDPOM) tool. Meeting management head on with their new "tool" and how to defeat it.
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Step 4 Settlements
Handbooks
Episode 117: Let's get back into an Arbitration.
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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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Grievance Starter
Episode 115: Episode 115: The Anatomy of a Removal.
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Episode 116: Mr. John Poskin gets in depth about Article 29.
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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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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 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 110: Come at Me Bro.
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Step by Step Guide
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 108: Article 10 Charges Levied Against Brian Renfroe.
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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Regional Award for Persuasive Value
Step 4 MOU
Handbook M-39
Area Labor 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 104: Special Guest Mr. Cole Billups Goes in Depth About the Anatomy of a Grievance File.
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Fillable Forms
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Episode 101: Playing Chess With Our Heat Training Grievance. Salted Peanuts and Grieving Certified Mail in the DPS.
Episode 102: Fight For Our Safety and Understand Our Rights.
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Episode 99: JB's Salted Peanuts. 3999 & Demonstrated Performance. Grieving Return to Work Letters Requiring Signatures
Episode 100: Salted Peanuts. Basics on the Informal A Meeting and the Importance of 613 Time
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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 95: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend. Salted Peanuts
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Episode 96: The Possum or The Lion, Which is It? Salted Peanuts
This episode discusses Safety, the Load Truck Feature, and Locally Developed Forms.
Episode 93: Salted Peanuts
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Episode 94: John Poskin Doing Some Salted Peanuts as He's Rubber Banded to My Microphone
Episode 91: I Love You
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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 90: Bob Ross aka JB Doing a Bit of Salted Peanuts
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Episode 87: Shatter the Damn Podium, Article 8 & Muscle Memory.
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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 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 79: The distinguished Mr. John Poskin educating us on grieving transfer denials.
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 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 75: Trapping a Lion. Julio Cesar Chavez. Grieving Management Removing Our Hard Plastic Trays from Our Cases.
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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 74: My Dad, a Removal, is Your Business Agent a Shepherd or a Sheepherder? Dealing with Relevancy Letters.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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 68: The Love Affair. Effectively Grieving Management Changing Our Start Times.
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Episode 65: JB Goes in Depth About the Grievance Procedure/Process, CCAs Doing Rural Carrier Work & the Workhour/Workload Report.
Episode 66: William Wallace, Picking a Fight, the 3996 and 1571.
Episode 63: Making Sure We are Grieving Unsafe Scanner Messages and Other Tidbits.
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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.
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Episode 59: 1 Year Anniversary Baby! Dealing with PET. Making Sure we are Prepared to Battle Management When They Use PET.
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Episode 60: A Tainch of Encouragement and Dealing with Managements' Constant Violations of the 12 and 60-Hour Rule.
Episode 57: The Power of the 8190 and The Fangs of the Jackal. Protecting Our Routes and Other Assorted Goodies.
Episode 58: A Conglomeration of Route Protection Wonderfulness. Making Sure We are Getting Every Second We are Due.
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Training presentations were built and provided by: Steve Hedgecock
Episode 55: How to Deal with a Toxic Co-Worker. Protecting Your Flock.
Episode 56: The Rooster and the Hens. Defeating the Charge of AWOL on a Non-Scheduled Day.
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Episode 53: An homage to my mentor Lew Drass & the Wolf James Henry. Dealing with Heat Related Grievances.
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Episode 54: Ergonomics, My Foot and Protecting Our Brothers and Sisters from Long Term Injury.
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Episode 51: Special Guest NBA Mike Caref, the challenge. The Expert Dissecting Article 16.7.
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Episode 52: JB The Dog Trainer Dealing With DOIS, PET, 3996 and Red Line Policy.
Episode 49: The Saga of the Formal Step A. Being the King and Queen of Your Installation.
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Episode 50: Defining Mitigating Factors. Grieving Unsafe Scanner Messages.
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Episode 47: The Autobiography & the Greatest Holiday Scheduling Breakdown Ever Recorded. By: Jason 'JB' Leath
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Episode 48: The Inmate & The Informal Step A Meeting. Be About That Action!
Episode 45: Jeremy McCall, the Patriot, the White Pages & Defeating the WOO and DOV
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Episode 46: Bad Ass Bresee, the Test, and Discussing Article 5 & Past Practice Grievances
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Episode 43: General Hospital, AJ Breaux, Lake Charles & the Escalated Monetary Award
Episode 44: Dispatch of Value, Window of Operation & My Grandson. Beating the WOO and DOV
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Episode 41: The Fruit Basket, the Sell & Deems Desirable. Jason Leath Goes in Depth on Deems!
Episode 42: The Cease and Desist, the Four Ways Stop & the Night Stick. Dealing With and Escalated Monetary Award
Episode 39: Final Episode of the JSOV. Mgmt Position. The Rant. The 300, the Snitch & the Coward
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Episode 40: Last Chance Agreements (LCA) & the Arbitration
Episode 37: Yellow Jackets, the Lion and Documentation for the JSOV
Episode 38: The JSOV Issue Statement and Remedy
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Episode 35: Opting-The Most Thorough Hold-Down Training Available! Presented by: Jason Leath
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Episode 36: A Prelude to the JSOV. A Pep Rally for the Joint Statement on Violence and Behavior in the Workplace
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Episode 33: Article 31 Information. Short but Oh So Sweet!
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Episode 34: Wrapping Up Discipline and Putting it all Together
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Episode 31: Corrective Rather Than Punitive. Lets Think Outside the Box
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Episode 32: Article 17 and Our Rights to Requested Information or As I Like to Call it the Mosquito, the Deadliest Killer of All.
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Episode 29: A Huge Win for the NALC and Escalated Monetary Awards!
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Episode 30: Defeating CCA Discipline. Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together
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Episode 27: Just Cause Principle: Was the Severity Reasonably Related to the Discipline Itself?
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Episode 28: Just Cause Principle: Was the Disciplinary Action taken in a Timely Manner?
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Episode 25: Just Cause Principle: Is the Rule Consistently and Equitably Enforced?
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Episode 26: Just Cause Principle: Was a Thorough Investigation Completed?
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Episode 23: Just Cause Principle: Is There a Rule?
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Episode 24: Just Cause Principle: Is the Rule a Reasonable Rule?
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Episode 21: Examples of Behavior. Public Defender or Clarence Darrow. Who Are You?
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Episode 22: Article 16.1, Getting Ready for the Just Cause Principles
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Episode 19: Article 16.8 Review of Discipline, Concurrence of Suspensions or Discharge
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Episode 20: Article 16.10, The Discipline Killer
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Episode 17: Combating Criminal Statutes Cited in the Letter of Charges
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Episode 18: Discipline and Mgmt Obligation Under Section 115 of the M-39 Handbook
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Episode 15: Article 16.7 Emergency Procedure, Much More Than Just "Immediate"
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Episode 16: Article 16.6 Indefinite Suspension-Crime Situation. The Power of Nexus
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Episode 13: Single Track vs Multi Track Discipline
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Episode 14: Defenses Against Unautorized Overtime
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Episode 11: Defeating Backing & Stationary Events (GPS) + Mgmt Spying & Covert Techniques
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Episode 12: Article 35 & Defending Against Charges Due to Alcohol & Drug Addiction
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Episode 9-3: Accidents, Examples of Behavior & Article 29
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Episode 10: Tenure and the Bank of Good Will
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Episode 9-1: Defenses Against Vehicle Accidents. Article 41.3.p
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Episode 9-2: PS Form 1769/300 Accident Report
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Episode 8-2: Deems Desirable & Restricted Sick Leave
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Episode 8-3: Vera D. Bugg & Attendance Related Discipline
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Episode 7: The Charge
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Episode 8-1: Attendance Related Discipline
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Episode 5: Discipline and the Request for Information
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Episode 6: Article 16.2 the Discussion and Using it to our Benefit
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Episode 4: Office of Inspector General and Postal Inspectors Investigation
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