property and all the assets, the postal service has and steal that money, lou, all across the united states. we are losing very distinguished buildings and public art that they contain major buildings at the post service owned, iconic, beautiful buildings in the centers of town. have been sold to real estate developers for not that much money. oh, for. they were designed to be among the best buildings in town, architecturally distinguished, but also the craftsmanship. oh, a commission for the 1st time, for small towns where people had generally never seen art before, let alone public art that depicted themselves and the work that they do. and their

legends and their history and their landscapes. oh, it was to a noble americans who do common work so that they would know that this is part of what constitutes a civilization of all of us working together. doing our bit, ah, the real estate portfolio which the public owns and paid for is early estimated to be worth $50.00 to $100000000000.00. so anybody who can get their hands on that is going to make out very nicely. like a bandit, perhaps in the postal service, gave an explicit contract to the world's largest commercial real estate company, cd ari. to not only sell our property, but also to advise them on what to sell and also to lease back and property which the postal service does on to it. so this is a very nice she deal. ah,

now where it really does interesting is that the chair of the board and largely the owner of c d r e is none other than richard c, bluff a billionaire, private equity capital as to just happens to be the husband of senator dianne feinstein. perhaps the most powerful senator in congress. ah, by any measure, this is the rather startling conflict of interest that nobody seems to have looked into in the press. the scarcely mentioned me or oh, in my own city of santa monica, i was involved in reforms that transformed that city. so that the downtown of santa monica became, if not the most,

one of the most vibrant retail centers and all of california. and there's a beautiful post office in that set of blocks and the post service sold it to some guy who's making it into a movie studio. whereas they could have shared that space expanded the opportunity so that they would have ongoing revenue and maintain this beautiful location in the middle of town where everybody could go to it. they've moved the post office to some place on the other side of the freeway where the bus depot is it's, it's really a crime that's an area where they posted service has not followed my suggestions at all. and i'm quite frustration about ah ah, in washington dc, you can go to the old post office and pay the president of the united states $24.00

for a cheeseburger i marry burkhart. pacific branch, president of the national association of postal supervisors. every 4 years delegates gather to elect the officers who will represent them in washington. you need to be assertive, you need to be even a little aggressive, and you have to be unafraid. that was always my expectation. 3 officers that we elected and we're paying almost a $150.00 pounds. so you think, wow, those are the best. they're fighting their 247. and so it was always a little disappointing to see that they leave right at 5 and did cherry cell phones and didn't even know a lot of the basic rules. we have not elected the right people.

when i 1st ran, one of the national office was totally, why are you doing this? because it was already the election had been 4 years ago. he said, all votes were promised to other people and you don't have anything to run but your skills. if our whole convention is that correct? why and how it just dial it it and promise it in the office of national secretary treasurer john gene, 1200, a brighter 1009 or 35.

and that's why one day i want one member, one vote because that's the ultimate way to break this up every time i mention it. so like we can't have one member one vote. we can't do that. and i said, why not legal? well, because they don't know what they're doing and i go but isn't that what the elisa said, you know the england and is that why we form this nation? and isn't that what people said of the 1800s. and is that why women could vote? is that white black people can vote, and so what we're doing is we're disenfranchising everybody for a few good. oh boy, power brokers. nothing happens. and this is to tired organization with a lot of travel expenses. ah, a in november 2013. the postal service begins opening many post offices in staples,

stores nationwide. a sign on the door. we closed a bill. there was a faster i like to know what the contract had been. so with that, if you could hardly read, ah, we took an old we were hired to protect their meal. i'm a customer to us. i'm going to say protect our mail. after 3 years of pressure, the postal service was found in violation of its contract with employees and staples closed their postal counters about big business and money. it's not about the public and given the service that me desired and not about quality train workers. it's about the money with one of the things the postal system

did was to create the expectation that a job can have reasonable hours, can have a good pension. what used to be called a middle class american dream lifestyle. right? if you destroy those jobs, what you're doing is you're ratcheting down the standard of living. you're allowing all the other employers in an area to offer less and less so that the only comparison anybody has is the poor job. the 1st largest business that employ the most people is wal mart and the wages there are so low. but many of the wal mart employees have to go on welfare. that is, they are subsidized by the taxpayer. and what you end up having is the us postal service, retail clerk, subsidizing wal mart, in order to pay those workers so much lower wages. so it really changes the direction of co is subsidizing owned,

traditional 9 to 5 doesn't work in our current economy. as people are working multiple part time jobs, you may work a 4 hour day at the post office and dr. uber for 4 hours. they've tried to bring in an hourly wage people for part time, part time, hours at $15.00 an hour with no benefits, no health insurance, even though they have a ton of employment opportunities. it's hard for them to find people to come in on the spot and then the people we do get sometimes they're, they just don't get it. they think the job is easy and it's not, it's very physically enduring. in this past winter it was the polar vortex was absolutely horrendous. we were working, forced over time. we're working 60 weeks, we're working 12 and 13 hour days. feel like this. all really call any more problems. working with them for a plan. just wanted to know,

you know, well with the stuff stayed here and so you're not by choice. but like i said, we need the family needs me so i can tell myself my family needs with my wife 3 kids. oh, this is america's job. this is for the people this has existed since the beginning of this country. there's no reason to stop with like they go to kelly is one of the most widely appreciated all worker in the country. a postal workers know our. 7 people on the route, they take pride and being able to make sure that they're okay. we stayed quite a few lives all through the years. i did the emergency breathing,

they opened their way up. i didn't do anything. would anybody else? well, yes, it is a hero. just make sure i've been like, wait for the right time in emergencies and national security situations are gonna deliver medicine. you're gonna deliver some anti dough. are you gonna deliver some equipment? the post office is the last hope of this country because it doesn't say well, you know, that's not very profitable. i'm not going to do it. it has a civic obligation, as well as the legal obligation to perform on behalf of the american people. ah. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful. very katy

killed time. time to sit down and talk ah ah mm oh, oh, i misread it. i have to say this, then the criteria in germany for many years has been compatibility with public opinion. those politicians paused as competent. we act in line with what people

expect from them, but public opinion is produced or shaped by mass media. those are shared by journalists, most german journalists are sympathizers of the social democrats, of the green data. for as long as it goes, you written on social democratic policy projects that you pass as a competent leader back breaking toil, forced labor stress, industrial injury corporal punishment.

oh no words with which we are all familiar are you certain that the world you live in abolish slavery long ago? with a do you have powers in this country that are trying to choke off the postal service and take everything it has that's worth any money. and

then you have a group of people that are trying to fulfill the mission and to deliver to every address every day. the one philosophy flies in the face of the other. the way to do it is not to eliminate the delivery the way to do it is not to. busy eliminate door to door service is something that we've provided the people all these years. you want to take it like foreign to people. you want to put a box up at the corner and have you mother have to walk a while to get her mail every day. busy i don't think i want that. i would love to see us go the direction of the self directed more team self managed team because we're capable of making the decision off. so we could put 40 java to perform desire commitment. that's what we want. you only get it when you make people part of the process. oh, we can definitely run it in my face. and for example,

that come from when we ran out, they said employee 3 and i'm facing you know what your thumb and every day we can do it on most of most of the oversight and the paperwork that the people deal with now is you know, didn't mail get their own time. did you know, did that box get there? did amazon get all scanned properly? but there's a lot of people in here that are justifying their job, which is a useless job. we have one guy that comes down just to make sure the mail gets here in time. we could check that out. ridiculous, let the post office be a pioneer again in the days of the pony expressed in the way that it was, but now not about reaching into the far reaches of our country, but rather into the way we organized business. every post office should be a low co workers, co operative, a group of workers whose job it is to make that institution as useful as helpful to the local community, as it knows how to be free to do that in any way it sees fit

at one time they are able to offer copying services in post office lobbies and kinko's got that shut down. they lobby congress. and also there's a law that you can have copy machines in your local post office. the postal service has its hands tied by congress. for example, up until 900. 68. you had postal savings system as part of the post office and the banks didn't like it. even though people used it. it was convenient. it was reliable. a banks pressured congress. they closed it down in people who said, well, let the post office go into banking. well, you know, that's not why we created the postal service. we got plenty of private banks that'll do bank and i think it might defuse our mission. it might open us up to a lot of criticism. ah, yeah,

the postal service didn't crash the economy and steal people's pension. the postal services there provide a service for the unless the banking community has completely abandoned a certain area and there are some areas that are under backed. there are only 30000000 and bank people in this country. and they could be the source of wonderful service. and communities all over the country because of most offices, there is have to be bill and they will produce revenue for the post usa. i think there's a lot of other adaptations that we could be leading the way and such as a high speed internet kiosk access to a secure online bill payments center. there's communities all across the and it don't even have access to high speed internet period. and there's also many people that can't afford to have these services in their home. the postal service doesn't have to pay tax on their building. and so if we're going to do that,

we've got to find a way to level the playing field. so they don't put the mom and pop internet cafe, a couple blocks down out of business. this would be the government competing with the private sector. you betcha. and that's a good thing. let the private sector have a competitor to exclude the government, means the private sector can do to us the customers, what it wishes. there's no one else who benefits from that, not the public, not the country as a whole, but for the private alternative profit makers. that's with post office and american paper. i want to be able to bring back pride and being a postal worker. i'm proud to be opposed to worker. i'm proud to be able to serve

the american people that mean something that me something to me. i definitely want to see a lot of graph food to activism. people getting out there and protecting united states postal service. the letter is so parson, all the emails and the taxing and all that is all in personal and you know how much time and effort to take to sit down in pen something. so it means a lot more. my mom was calling about some files and gave me that picture. so i love it. say, i've been born to do this kind of stuff. have doin is way back. been my mom issue. i was ready. i guess you plan for me to be somebody and i got the envelope printed and inside is a letter for me. i want to continue to do big things for the membership as your chief spoke person. and that's what i am a t spokesperson. that's what the union representatives off when that law makers. so hopefully people don't look at us like some politician to

a different kind of election so sent out way more than a 1000 of them maybe one more year to go with the union. and as i said, i think i'll be able to smile and sleep a little better and not have nightmares about, you know, who lost the job today or who's getting written up for silly stuff or things like that. take it personally, which i do. it stays with the very negative type away, really it with you get this allergic when you come here without a doubt, i say is a 30 years, hey, for my life i sent an email to you. i want to drink. i'm here an hour in my fondest memories are coming here as a kid and you let me sit at the counter and, you know, sell a book, a stamps, and count some change out for the customer. right. i want it. i wanted to show you

that you want to treat people like you want to be treated, you treat people like you want to be treated. and i honestly, i firmly believe that even though these people were doing business with the postal service, they were doing business with me. and after time they were not customers, they were family and friends. i was fired because i was accused of falsifying a federal document misappropriation. of funds from the postal service which total $579.56 over 10 year period. $0.13 a day to post the service was able to keep me out of work for $364.00 days without benefit of pay or hospitalization. very trying time in my life. i knew i took a big toll on him and i was about to go to college. and so he had a mortgage and you know, i know he had all these stresses on him and,

and it just didn't seem right. mm. and i was so happy that i how that, how was exonerated the day before we were supposed to go to court because management? no, they did not have a case against me. any reasonable subsistence expense that you incur as a result of official travel will be approved by somehow some way for my family. my family was at the forefront, my wife, my son, and the place we lived was at the forefront. and they gave me all of my strength. i felt like a boxer who was on the canvas 10 to and somehow, god gave me the strength to swing by arms. had, i hit him and i want to be. and i should

be a man. and even if at the end of the day, management has to put that worker back to work with full back pay, they will have achieved something in terms of imposing discipline and control on the workforce. i can't make a statement cuz then they're gonna treat me like they treat you on hold. i did lose my job or he please think we should get and you said, no, you keep eye contact me when i am talking to you. but workplace change never came from the postmaster general. whether megan brennan or ben franklin, justice safety prospector, they only ever came in small victories by employees who know their rights and fight for them. i might lose this thing. i might lose everything.

there's a big price to pay for fighting the system, but you have to, you have to make a decision that you're going to do it and it was my, my reputation, my, my livelihood. now i have my job back after 3 very long years of struggle. i've spent almost $20000.00 on a lawyer that something i might not even get by even really. wow, because he's in the one. i got to be honest. i'm a boy. he had to keep off, be an honest man to delete a witness for me. then in there for them, tracy won her lawsuit, maine and she'd been ever how have they expect you to give up? they want you to give them the way things have been run, has stopped people from standing up because they,

they would feel that they would be standing alone. and i hope to spread the message that you're, you're not alone that so. so go ahead and stand up. and let's, let's, let's, let's take this on friday with, [000:00:00;00]

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