Many in Rock Hill’s Barnette family will travel to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. this weekend, but the trip is not for sightseeing.
The family will take part in a march and rally on Monday, the Marthin Luther King Jr. holiday, because Tyson Barnette, 26, was gunned down outside the nation’s capital just before Thanksgiving. The killing of Barnette, who was delivering mail after dark in suburban Maryland, remains unsolved.The rally was set up by fellow postal workers who remain upset that carriers are delivering mail at night – but for the Barnette family, it is a reminder that the killer remains on the loose. As the nation remembers the legacy of the civil rights icon who was gunned down in 1968, the family will be remembering a young man who was trying to earn an honest living when he was gunned down in 2013.
“Until the police find out who did this, we will not rest,” said Felita Guy, Barnette’s aunt. “What happened to Tyson should not happen to anyone.”
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Rally and March for Safe Delivery (Dark_Delivery_protest_leaflet_)
postal management has not been totally silent on the murder they tried to say it was something personal with him
Postal mgmt/eas are 100% responsible for this.
Sad that it takes people to get killed before management did anything to get carriers off the streets before dark….1st time in a long time we will be starting early after the holiday, still carriers will be returning after 6pm in our office due to the plant loading us down with circs that could wait til Wed. or Thurs., they just don’t give a crap what happens to the carriers.
In true fashion the Postal Service has remained mute on the murder of Tyson Barnette and has taken no effective steps to alleviate the situation. To admit any wrongdoing is to verify what the nation of employees already know, mainly that management is an uncaring selfish body of computer geeks, and not very smart ones at that who look at everything as a number, including people. The death of Barnette I can bet was treated as a nuisance by management who only considered after his death the hassle of replacing him.
This is a true story out of an Arkansas town from a few years ago. A truck driver making his rounds between the local offices in the morning backed up to the dock at the plant for another load, but told mail handlers he was feeling very bad. They helped him to the breakroom and before anybody could do anything, he suffered a fatal heart attack right there.
The other employees rushed to the immediate supervisor, who looked at the dead truck driver and snorted “Well, now how will I get another driver?”
It was all about him and his inconvenience with no regard for telling the family or even showing the slightest bit of sympathy. These are the kinds of people management love, and there are some city carriers I have the unfortunate displeasure of working with whom, I’m sure, if they decided to be supervisors would be just as selfish and mean spirited. So we do need to bear in mind those types are on both sides of the aisle so to speak.
It’s this dehumanization of labor that has created an atmosphere of absolute intolerance for even the slightest mistakes because management doesn’t do the job and most have no idea what it’s like.
And yet I know of at least one branch, the same city where this horrible incident took place where the NALC will not file grievances of any kind, even in the terror campaign going on with MSP scans. No wonder some craft are disgusted.
I am the NALC branch president in my city and I have filed 15 or 16 grievances on MSP scans and will be filing a harassment grievance to go along with it.
I do not see this trend going away any time soon. In fact, management is just rubbing their hands together waiting for the old guard to retire knowing younger workers are ignorant of the union and too obsessed with their iPhones to care about their job security. If you think service is poor now, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
I support the end of “Delivering Mail in the Dark“, The USPS Operational Management Office needs to Stop Endangering Worker`s Safety. Thank you,sincerley Michael Giarratano-USPS Maintenance Craft.
Tis a sad day for the Old USPS ! Some things are so unnecessary ! ! And, carrying after dark is certainly one of them ! ! !