NRLCA National President Don Maston said in an interview Friday that the union had “gone to extreme measures” by repeatedly delaying the implementation of the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS).
“I understand that they’re angry, those that have lost hours, and they’re angry at the system,” Maston said.
But Maston said those delays also exacerbated the shock rural carriers felt with RRECS finally went into effect in May.
Prior to the RRECS rollout, rural carriers were paid based on a five-year-old snapshot of mail volume data, which didn’t account for a persistent decline in mail volume over the years.
USPS rural carriers union says members have more to lose than gain in decertification push
“That’s not to say that we aren’t empathetic on a human level. People get used to making a certain salary and getting off at a certain time. And it was a great system for that five years, especially with a decline in mail volume,” Maston said. “They didn’t have a lot of work to do, and they’re getting off early and getting a very nice salary. But the system was designed to pay carriers for what they actually do, and be fair to the employer and the carriers alike, but still have a substantial incentive built in there.”
I understand the decline of the mail volume…. And if this was a true statement why did the standards almost get doubled and tripled across the board…. If the mail volume was an all time low that standards wouldn’t have need to be changed such as 86 pieces per minute.
Again…Username unavailable never mentions the flawed data capture,time standards & lack of transparency…THIS IS NIT ABOUT PAY CUTS…HES talking to us like we’re morons…🤬😤😡
No Don, you are not empathetic as you take your 400K salary. Did any leadership at NRLCA take ma*sive pay cuts like those you “represent”? The roll out of rrecs was a disaster, the tighter standards like dps are unworkable, and the fact you agreed to implement a system while management is withholding data. NRLCA always wusses out and doesn’t represent us, it’s time for a change.
Such f**king gaslighting. I don’t know how these soulless creeps sleep at night.
Didn’t NALC president Sombrato threaten to take NRLC president Mo Biller to federal court for failing to competently represent rural carriers? If I remember right Sombrato told Biller that he would ask a federal judge to decertify the NRLC union and ask that judge to permit the NALC to represent those carriers. This s**ts been going on for decades
Username unavailable is a putz, had the NRLCA not aggressively sought a new pay system in the 1st place we wouldn’t be in this situation. I was full time union circa 2012 and these morons thought the creation of rrecs was the best thing since sliced bread. They aggressively pursued creating a 3 engineer panel. It was NRLCA pushing rrecs in the beginning, not the USPS. Username unavailable needs to shut the f**k up. He and the rest are 100% the reason we all just got f**king screwed, while Teamsters delivered a world cla*s contract for UPS delivery drivers. Our… Read more »
Sorry Don, not buying your bulls**t. The only reason we have RRECS is because it was birthed by this t**d of a union that spends way too much of our dues money on conventions, airfare, meals, etc….
The Teamsters will negotiate a better deal for us and they won’t bend us over to please their USPS masters.
Sounds like union bra*s is afraid the gravy train is about to jump the tracks.
Viva la revolution!
Infuriating… He completely misses the point and speaks of Rrecs the same exact way DeJoy does almost word for word… These are supposed to be the people representing US and he sounds like somebody who is representing the postal service… Through their entire negotiation you never saw the teamsters president throw their membership under the bus or talk down to them or belittle their work. How the h**l is this fraud negotiating on our behalf when his starting position is “ah well shucks you guys are paying us too much.” Absolutely disgusting.
When the initial RRECS numbers came back so bad, why didn’t our douche union insist on an old style manual count so carriers could do a fair comparison? This union really sucks the big one.
The useless union agreed to a system that we have no way of verifying if it’s fair or accurate. They left us at the mercy of management and are told to trust them. This is the same management that has been constantly thinking of ways to screw us on every mail count that I’ve been in for the last forty years. The onion is lying through their teeth just like management. Without this union we will at least have one less enemy to fight.
Decertification is more necessary than ever after reading this! Unbelievable!!
To makes us at will and fire every body, wow. USPS can even run it while everyone is employed, imagine if they got no workers, something is seriously wrong with our union.
That is laughable….. His elevator speech and talking points are from USPS upper management.. He just proved our point….. He doesn’t represent us at all… It’s pretty rich for a person that is employed by every rural employee to say it would hurt to deceritify. Sorry, it will only hurt you and your underlings…. If what he says is true Where’s the transparency of data and where in the process is the level 4 grievance that was filled on our behalf at?
Let’s get the decertification papers to every office. I know mine is all in. This guy is just trying to save his a*s with all this jibber jabber.
Rural Carriers DO NOT accept anymore lies from the NRLCA! You have the chance to fire the worthless slugs at the NRLCA that claim to ‘represent’ you. Now is the time for action. I’m a 29 year veteran Rural Carrier who was active in the NRLCA. I well remember the NALC attempt to gain representation of the Rural Craft. I was young and gullible at that time and I voted to remain in the NRLCA. Brothers and Sisters how I would love to have that vote back. The NRLCA is directly responsible for the decline in wages and working conditions… Read more »
The last 5 years getting off early?! My office has been hit hard by Amazon for over the last 5 years. Especially during the “pandemic “. I’ve worked for the post office for 35 1/2 years. It was a lot easier in the day when we had heavy mail volume but without 50lb packages of dog food, 60lb bed rails, computer desk, gaming desk etc etc. This clown doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Yet another reason I quit the union!
They are getting off early? Lots of us have not been getting off early in the last five years. Since Amazon. Especially during Covid. No extra compensation for being essential.
Low mail volume isn’t our fault! I’m extremely good at my job and rather it’s a light day or heavy mail day it takes me about the same amount of time. No mention of the increase of packages that take a lot longer to deliver than heavy mail. An extra case of DPS might add 5 minutes to my day. Get real USPS/union. You are screwing us!
Who gets done early every day all year long? We get done a little early in the summer, work late in fall and winter, and work an average day in the spring. Good days, bad days.
Everyone is sick and tired of this union rolling over every time management tells them to and we are done with them negotiating like hostages. RRECS is just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
What an a*shat!
Yeah, our tiny letters are down a bit, but our 50-pound boxes of dog food and cat litter are up 1000 percent!!!
I’d rather deliver 500 more letters a day down my pothole-filled pig trails that destroy my personal vehicle than pretend I’m a UPS box delivery FREE service.
DECERTIFY!
DECERTIFY!
DECERTIFY!!!
There may be a shift in types of mail, but no decline of overall mail. Still working as hard as ever. The way I understand this, they want to take away pay for slow days, but we get no credit for busy days. Basically, coverage can only go down not higher than 100%. Slow days coverage makes us lose. Again, they are screwing us. Union does not know math.
Of course he’s going to say that! He’s panicking!