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.

Okay, brothers and sisters, welcome to the blizzard of

2006 edition of the Lionsden. That's right. We're recording this as the blizzard is unloading

on the Northeastern U.S. right now as we speak.

Some of our areas, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island are getting up to two feet of snow

right now. And before you ask, yes, I was out there delivering for it a little while.

So I did get a little taste of it. We had a really good episode for you today. I know it's been a little while. We actually have a couple of things we're going to talk about today. But we have a special guest, Chris Gannett for Branch 230, Nashville, New Hampshire. I'm going to have him introduce himself in a minute. But it's funny how sometimes, you know, coincidences, I don't believe in coincidences. Sometimes things happen for a reason.

Chris and I seem to be on the same wavelength.

He's working on a grievance for something that I happen to be working on a lion's den episode for at the same time.

And he reached out to me and I said, you know what, let's sit down together.

Let's put something together for the membership and we'll have your grievance settled and figured out at the same time and we'll have something put out to the membership too. So, Chris, are you with us? Yes, Paul. Thanks for having me on. Absolutely, brother. Absolutely. And you can, you can attest to this, right? This was a total coincidence. You called me and said, you know what? We are working on the same thing in two different places right now. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yep. And this is how our union should work, really. You know, I mean, getting ideas from the field, information, talking to rank and file carriers. I mean, not that I'm anything more than a rank and file carrier, but just talking to each other. You know, I think that there's too many people in ivory towers right now that think they have all the answers. And the answers are really on the workroom floor. That's where we get our information. So this is going to be great. What we're talking about today, Chris, tell them what we're talking about today.

So today we're going to be talking about these welcome back packets that management,

at least on the Atlantic coast, have been passing out to carriers after as little as one day of sick leave being used.

And they're usually citing a couple of Elm provisions.

And then there are some instances they are requiring a signature.

Right.

Acknowledgement of receipt.

Yes.

And for those of you, I mean, this might not be going on all around the country, but it's been going on for quite a while since 2014, actually.

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