The Lion's den episode 18: Huge win for city letter carriers out of Branch 3 Buffalo New York. Also tips on beating spm scan discipline

From A to Arbitration

Corey L Walton

Nalc, Arbitration, Education, Union, Usps, Mail Carrier, Letter Carrier

4.8 • 597 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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0:00.0	Protect the flock, we rally in the lion's den.
0:06.2	Shield to shield, the storm is thundering.
0:12.0	Unleash the roar, let the lions run.
0:17.4	Torch the night until the battles won. All right right welcome back to the lion's den we're going to have a longer
0:26.3	episode today i don't like long episodes on wednesday i want them to be short and sweet but i've got a
0:32.7	great decision it came out of branch three buffalo new york fantastic Fantastic. David Grosskoff sent it to me today, and I love this decision because it deals with things that we're dealing with right now as far as management in these scans, package scans. Anything we get like that, I'm going to go over it because we are getting bombarded right now with when you talk
0:55.3	about integrity scans the last thing management has on their mind is integrity when it comes with
1:00.8	scanning this geo fence you know when you come back and say hey go back break the geo fence and
1:05.8	scan all these things either delivered or no access or whatever they're constantly telling us to do
1:12.1	things that are not contractual basically falsifying scans so this is a fantastic
1:18.3	decision and I'm going to read it I'm going to go over a couple of other things
1:22.8	that you're going to need to use for management is disciplining us right now for
1:27.4	these SPM scans and I'm going to go over a couple of things that you're going to need to use for management is disciplining us right now for these spams scans and i'm going to go over
1:30.1	a couple of things that you're going to need to put in your case file all right and i might do this
1:35.0	again sunday so i can curse and so i'm not going to curse today because i don't curse on lion's den
1:41.1	i will sunday but not today and so I'm going to read this decision first,
1:47.0	and then we're going to go over some SPM scan things, okay, that you're going to need to put in
1:52.7	your file when we're dealing with SPM scans. All right. Now this decision is 14 pages. I'm going to
1:59.7	read all 14 pages. I'm going to read every bit of it
2:03.3	all right it's that good but you always I love reading arbitrator's decisions
2:08.4	because you get a good issue statement they're going to put the contractual
2:11.8	language in there you're going to get management's position and most of the time
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