Tyson Barnette
The APWU family is deeply saddened by the death of Tyson Barnette, the 26 year old Maryland Letter Carrier who was killed while delivering mail on Saturday, Nov. 22, well after dark. We extend our deepest sympathies to his family.
The night after the shooting, approximately 150 Letter Carriers attended a vigil to pay respects to their fallen co-worker. APWU President Mark Dimondstein, Executive Vice President Debby Szeredy and Clerk Craft Director Clint Burelson attended in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the National Association of Letter Carriers.
Many of the carriers at the vigil expressed anguish — and anger — over USPS policies that have forced carriers to deliver mail at night. In a eulogy, one of Barnette’s co-workers said we must never again “lose a life to save a dollar.”
Dimondstein believes the unsafe working conditions are a result of recent plant consolidations, cutbacks to the workforce and management policies that are paving the way for privatization. “Mail now arrives at carrier stations later, pushing delivery times into the evening, and stations are understaffed,” he said.
“Let this tragedy serve as a wake-up call,” he said. “Management must take the necessary steps to strengthen service and safety.
Even more pitiful, these clowns in mgmt. aren’t even saving money doing this anyway, with the massive amounts of carrier OT being used because of the ineptness of postal mgmt.
say no to pay for performance.
“i am tired of being told to work harder for another mans gold”
Postal mgmt, at levels = liars and thieves.
Yet when management makes mistakes life goes on.
When craft makes a mistake write them up,3 day suspension ,or fire them.
Something need’s to be done when the same supervisors keep making the same mistakes over,and over.
This cause’s poor productivity , morale,lack of respect for management,and lost dollars on grievance’s over&over.
Everything comes back on the Letter Carriers.Instead of making the plant run the mail earlier, the Post Office makes the Letter Carriers start later. Many plants have been merged together so transportation must travel a greater distance to deliver the mail to the offices when the mail was sorted in house. Less not forget the management bonus system at work here, the more productive the plant looks the bigger the bonus. Management will take care of their own, big goings on if a manager gets killed. Hire another Part-timer it will be ok.IDIOTS