Protect the flock, we rally in the lion's den.

Shield to shield, the storm is thundering.

Unleash the roar, let the lions run.

Torch the night until the battles won.

All right, brothers and sisters, welcome back to a holiday edition of the Lions Den.

We're going to be flying solo today.

You get Paul Belanger at the helm here, and we're going to do a little chatting about cease and desist remedies.

Now, if you haven't heard, which I'm sure everyone who's around has heard, this is a hot

button topic for the Postal Service right now.

They are doing everything in their power to shut us down on cease and desist remedies.

And there is a method to their madness. They have a

strategy. We're going to go over that strategy. I think I can pretty much lay it out for you.

And we're also going to talk about what we can do to fight it. Because unfortunately,

our national team has not given us an awful lot of direction.

And while the Polter Service has this organized attack, we are just letting our stewards hang out to dry and fight these battles on their own.

So we're going to take care of that here today.

We're going to get you a strategy in place.

We're going to give you some references where you can go get this and put it into your grievances. And you're going to be

more effective at fighting this in the future for our carriers. So here we go. What is the Postal

Services strategy on cease and desist remedies?

Well, if you look at the backlog we have right now, we have 40,000 or so step B cases that are backloged.

That is a huge, huge number.

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