13 thoughts on “APWU: Guffey to Testify Before Senate Committee”

1. @ Taw, I don’t believe that capt. J works as wc investigator. If he has your name, he would have your case number. I have my reason to believe that he may be a faker. I can call dept of labor to verify his position if he is willing to give me his name.

2. @Capt J…
   Ok, that sounds a bit wiser, now that you have explained. And yes, so much BS, with the honest injured. I wish their was a way to go back in time, and undone that day I got hurt, and all when I was suppose to be on my last break. But getting to the, “how many jumped to disability retirement ?”. I think i pretty much cleared that up, or so I thought I did. If a person gets injured, and it is so serious that, one will never go back to work,
   then you should be able to collect a sufficient enough of after tax money, to live as you were living just before your accident, and be financially off, no better, nor any worse than previously injured. That is fair, and what the whole system is based on. Cap, it is a fair system, and even though their will be fraud involved with anything in life, you cannot kill the system, or punish the worker that is 100% legit. You, or I should say, the company, and owcp, has to find the cheats, and not simply say, well, since we have many fakers on the rolls, we are going to penalize all who get hurt. This is not compassionate, nor what a civilized democracy does to it’s own workers. Come up with a better policy, and then enforce that policy, to weed out the fakers, and not one where you send an injured worker to a OWCP paid doctor, who is in it, just for the steady monthly check, and sends 90% of his case load. back to work, because when he sees one of his OWCP claimants walking through his door/office, he immed. assumes he is faking, because that employee isn’t crawling into that office. That is how that works, and I have heard enough from some owcp folks in the past, that have had this happen, when they can barely sit/stand, etc. But walking into that doc’s office, that doc says, “oh, if he made it in here, he can work 4 hours a day”. And no matter what that claimant tells the doctor of his pain and injuries, he cannot do anything to convince the doctor to leave his paperwork unchanged. That goes on, and will be part of any comprehensive workers comp changes that will be approved in the near future.
   And in Europe, they treat their inured allot more humanely. And, in Europe, if your caught faking, you never get any money in the future, that is if you really get injured, and that is on the job. So it is a double-sided sword. Maybe we should go over to their system and have a look see.
   Capt J, I still think that you may have a tenancy that when you hear of a worker that is off of work, from an OJI, you automatically think to yourself, that, “oh yeah, he’s faking !”. As I keep saying, no matter what you have seen, you always have to give a person a benefit of the doubt, or else I have to say, you don’t believe in the fundamentals of how this country exists on…and what it’s suppose to be all about. If your mind is that deep rooted in this type of thought, then you should maybe examine your personality, because you might just find out that your not so perfect yourself bro…
   Capt Jack, please remember, some out there, they have had no luck in their pursuit of having multiple surgeries to get back to work, and try living in their shoes, where getting out of bed, and looking forward to that day, not having any friends to go over too, nor being able to go to a sports event, to a movie, on a vacation, but to have to lay down on a couch, or a recliner, every, every day…..And nobody wants to come over, because those old friends are uncomfortable being around someone that is in pain, and most will not want to be in that situation, nor do most I have seen, know how to act in that situation. It makes them uncomfortable, so they will make an excuse as to why they can’t visit… Yeah, that is not worth the faking….I thank my God, my Lord, for always having an upbeat attitude, and putting things in perspective. Most of the time, anyway !!! have a safe one, all….

3. Taw — no need to be concerned about me. I investigated WC cases for years. The laws and regs favor the faker so it was especially nice to get a conviction at times. Just think,,, well over half on the system should be working. What POed me the most as the BS those really injured had to go through brought on in a failed attempt to curtail fraud. Just think of the funds available if not for all the fraud. Those resources could go to the honestly injured. I never judged anyone until investigating the facts involved. You think 85% is high, OK~~~ 75% and no less. You know your situation and have not looked hundreds of cases. How many jumped to disability retirement? If you knew the numbers it would make you sick too.

4. So a lot of carriers keep wanting five day delivery? If you notice in the legislation, his royal majesty king DONAHOE would have the right to cut other days out. Just read the proposed legislation. New Zealand is going for three days of delivery per week! And Canada Post is looking at three day delivery also. Be careful of what you wish for! With this new Postal deform bill, it will only destroy the Postal Service That is just what king DONAHOE, or should I call him king DOWNTHEHOLE?

5. 5 day delivery yet???? Then who cares!

6. @ Capt Jack,
   I don’t know about that percentage you just used, how do you justify your statements ?
   Sounds like you have never been injured, and you think most are faking. That is so cold bro, and heartless too. Te fact is, whether your working at the local burger joint or not, and you were injured on the job, and you should get what the system guaranteed you, as part of your wages at the time of your injury. Believe it or not, your wages goes to paying into owcp fund. Plus, if your going to make life altering changes, then grandfather it, so at the very least, the honestly injured, will not suffer. Kind of a not thought-out reply to my statement bro. Not going to go back and forth with a person, who thinks most are faking. I do agree though, that many could go back to work, just from seeing, and talking to others, but 85%, I think your off on estimate. Some people, who are on owcp, whether it is at the state or federal level, things that they do everyday, and that alone tells me, that some cannot work the 8 hours, but could work 2 or 3 hours, to some degree, and maybe some cannot work 5 days in a row, or continuously, but could go into work, a couple of days, for a couple of hours. But the fact is, you are passing judgement on folks that you just don’t know what their circumstances are. As for me, I am on the bed/couch most of the day, because of my issues, and I would trade my situation, for your situation, any day bro. I guess with your thinking, people are always guilty, and you don’t ever give them the benefit of the doubt. Not me, Ive seen too much in life, and I will keep my Christian beliefs, and not pass judgement on others, and live life as you do. I would not like you to be on a arbitration board, and with all of my body issues, and all of my surgeries that have gone bad, and have a guy like you, tell me that, “oh you can do this, oh you can do that” pass a binding judgement on me, without walking in my shoes. Glad I don’t post much here, because of cynics such as yourself. But Capt Jack, I will pray esp. hard for you, it may help…

7. “Last best offer” provision means goodbye collective bargaining and interest arbitration and management dictates the work rules and pay.Also, Guffey testified before Issa’s committee that he was for “DonahoeCare”and was willing to negotiate turning it to USPS management,that fool!

8. Very noteworthy:
   Currently pension and health benefits are protected by federal law.

   The Carper-Coburn bill wants to make those benefits negotiable in interest arbitration. Why do you think USPS is pushing so hard for that? There is also a push for “final best offer” binding arbitration. So if a new benefit package is offered and there is an impasse, an arbitrator could say, that’s it, that’s what you get.

9. yay 5 day!

10. Well said Captn Jack…Well said….Also unions have no power anymore. Keep wasting your money each paycheck for them to do nothing but kill the Post Office…5 day here we come

11. Sadly Taw, at least 85% of those on WC should be working. Besides, you were not injured on McDonalds wages. Even the fakers can get SSI, food stamps and all kinds of bennies.

12. What about protecting the injured employee’s from getting moved to the poverty rate, if that part of workers compensation area, that seriously sells out the honest that were hurt, while doing their jobs, and the same ones that never reached their maximum salaries, nor have the years, nor the years of putting some rainy day funds aside, from being burned, and most likely would lose much of what they own. No thought was added to this bill, and so many of us that are on OWCP, if enacted in it’s present form, we would be at the poverty level, and I have now talked to a few others, who have not the many years in, nor a decent “high-3” in, or earned, to pay their bills, and live the same as they are now, etc/etc (if this bill is passed in it’s present form).. I know we will all be taking some kind of hit, that is coming for sure, but even at a modest 2%-5% cut, would harm many, and many, who didn’t have the luxury of having 5/6 years in (you all get my point). Some of those employee’s that are in their 70’s and 80’s, the ones that this congressman/woman is trying to use as an example, for using owcp as a retirement system, well you have not investigated those cases to see what those employee’s pay/circumstances are. What high-3 are they at ???… They could have been inured while they only had a couple of years in, and not have a pot to pee in, as they say. And this is the Dem’s protecting the weak, the injured, the working class ?
    I’ll be the GOP’er that co-sponsored this bill, loves this DEM !!!

13. Whole lot of talk and no action on Congress’s part.

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