All episodes

Episode 104: Special guest Mr. Cole Billups goes in depth about the anatomy of a grievance file.

Episode 103: My ideology, Discussing the Arbitrators view on management requiring medical documentation for calling in sick 3 days or less.

Episode 102: Fight for our safety and understand our rights.

Episode 101: making sure we are playing chess and not checkers with our heat training grievance. salted peanuts and grieving certified mail in the dps.

Episode 100: salted peanuts. Basics on the informal A meeting and the importance of 613 time not 513 time.

Episode 99: JB's salted peanuts. 3999 & demonstrated performance. Grieving return to work letters requiring signatures.

Episode 98: Spicy salted peanuts with an emphasis on HERO training falsification.

Episode 97: Me & from A to Arbitration

Episode 96: The possum or the Lion, which is it? Salted peanuts

Episode 95: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Salted peanuts

Episode 94: John Poskin doin some salted peanuts as he's rubber banded to my microphone.

Episode 93: Salted Peanuts

Episode 92: Forgiveness and salted peanuts

Episode 91: I Love You

Episode 90: Bob Ross aka JB doing a bit of salted peanuts

Episode 89: Memphis, Jason Atchley & hope for a new beginning

Episode 88: THE Mike Caref, National Business Agent Region 3, getting us ready for collective bargaining. Special thank you to Cole Billups for saving my sanity.

Episode 87: Shatter the damn podium, Article 8 & muscle memory.

Episode 86: Salted Peanuts

Episode 85: Salted peanuts with an emphasis on management's denial of advanced sick leave request

Episode 84: Vincent Sombrotto - Captain my Captain!

Episode 83: The quitter, the coward, and the Boogeyman

Episode 82: Eight is enough: Basics of Article 8. Authored by Chris Strickland & Jason Atchley. Narrated by Corey Walton

Episode 81: I forgot. Salted Peanuts

Episode 80: JB and an ode to a good friend. JB goes in depth about quarterly overtime grievances. From the From A to Arbitration team, Merry Christmas happy holidays and we will talk to yall next year.

Episode 79: The distinguished Mr. John Poskin educating us on grieving transfer denials.

Episode 78: Defeating the hour office time; a short literary composition expository in nature authored by Richard Ray and Sean Killeen

Episode 77: My state of our Union address

Episode 76: The Shepherd Mike Caref going behind the scenes on upcoming contract negotiations

Episode 75: Trapping a lion. Julio Cesar Chavez. Grieving Management removing our hard plastic trays from our cases

Episode 74: My Dad, a removal, is your business agent a shepherd or a sheepherder? Dealing with relevancy letters.

Episode 73: Reviews. Grieving residual mail in the DPS

Episode 72: JB, the expert, dealing with Management performing craft work. An expert doing expert things as only an expert can.

Episode 71: Question and answer time with Executive Vice President Brian Renfroe.

Episode 70: Special guest the honorable Mike Caref, Business agent region 3, rubber banded to my microphone. Topics cover non-compliance and failure to follow instructions

Episode 69: Buster Douglas, the mirror and the note from the principal's office. Effectively grieving Management not allowing us to case SPRs and Management attempting to hold us to 5 minutes pm office time.

Episode 68: The love affair. Effectively grieving management changing our start times.

Episode 67: Beating the Red Line Policy (its coming to a station near you). Talking TIAREAP. A follow up to the knock and drop policy.

Episode 66: William Wallace, picking a fight the 3996 and 1571

Episode 65: JB goes in depth about the grievance procedure/process, CCAs doing rural carrier work, the workhour workload report

Episode 64: Humbled, Branch 11 'The Beautiful Ones', why I do what I do aka the mechanic, my eviction notice, tidbits and City/Rural disputes

Episode 63: Midweek surprise. Making sure we are grieving unsafe scanner messages and other tidbits

Episode 62: The good, the bad, the ugly. M-01983

Episode 61: I know what you did. Discussing the new memos. M-1982 M-1984

Episode 60: A tainch of encouragement and dealing with management's constant violations of the 12- and 60-hour rule. Let's think outside the box here

Episode 59: 1 year anniversary baby!! Dealing with PET. Making sure we are prepared to battle Management when they use PET

Episode 58: A conglomeration of route protection wonderfulness. Making sure we are getting every second we are due.

Episode 57: The power of the 8190, the fangs of the jackal. Protecting our routes and other assorted goodies.

Episode 56: The rooster and the hens. Defeating the charge of AWOL on a non-scheduled day.

Episode 55: How to deal with a toxic co-worker. Protecting your flock

Episode 54: Ergonomics, my foot and protecting our brothers and sisters from long term injury

Episode 53: Paying homage to my mentor Lew Drass & the wolf James Henry. Dealing with heat related grievances: everything you'll need to file a successful grievance against management.

Episode 52: Rated MA, my heart, JB the dog trainer dealing with Dois, Pet, 3996 and red line policy. See description below for subject matter start times

Episode 51: Special guest NBA Mike Caref, the challenge, The expert dissecting Article 16.7

Episode 50: Defining mitigating factors. Grieving unsafe scanner messages.

Episode 49: The saga of the Formal Step A. Being the King and Queen of your installation

Episode 48: The inmate and The Informal Step A meeting. Be about that action

Episode 47: The autobiography & the greatest Holiday Scheduling breakdown ever recorded. Narrated by Jason 'JB' Leath

Episode 46: Bad ass Bresee, the test, and discussing Article 5 & Past Practice grievances.

Episode 45: Jeremy McCall, The Patriot, the white pages and defeating the WOO and DOV

Episode 44: The Dispatch Of Value (dov) the Window Of Operation (woo) and my Grandson. Beating the WOO & DOV

Episode 43: General Hospital, AJ Breaux, Lake Charles and the escalated monetary award. Wrapping up the request for an escalated remedy

Episode 42: The cease and desist, the four ways stop and the night stick. Dealing with an escalated monetary award.

Episode 41: The fruit basket, the sell, and Deems Desirable. Jason Leath goes in depth on Deems.

Episode 40: Last Chance Agreements (LCA) & The Arbitration

Episode 39: Final episode of the JSOV. Management's position. The Rant, The 300, The Snitch and The Coward

Episode 38: The JSOV issue and remedy.

Episode 37: Yellow Jackets, the Lion, and Documentation for the JSOV

Episode 36: A prelude to the JSOV. A pep rally for the Joint Statement on Violence and Behavior in the Workplace.

Episode 35: Opting: the most advanced and thorough hold down training available; presented by Jason Leath.

Episode 34: Wrapping up discipline and putting it all together. The devastator, the journey, and the squirrel

Episode 33: Article 31 information. Short but oh so sweet

Episode 32: Article 17 and our rights to requested information or as I like to call it the Mosquito, the deadliest killer of all.

Episode 31: Corrective rather than punitive. Let's think outside the box

Episode 30: Defeating CCA discipline. putting the pieces of the puzzle together

Episode 29: M-01967, Kingsport TN and Arbitration C-34197. A HUGE WIN FOR THE NALC AND ESCALATED MONETARY AWARDS

Episode 28: Just cause principle: Was the disciplinary action taken in a timely manner? Another head scratcher

Episode 27: Just cause principle: Was the severity of the discipline reasonably related to the infraction itself and in line with that usually administered, as well as to the seriousness of the employees past record? A thinking Man/Woman's provision.

Episode 26: Just cause principle: Was a thorough investigation completed? a very detailed journey through this principle.

Episode 25: Just cause principle; Is the rule consistently and equitably enforced? The obliterator of discipline

Episode 24: Just cause principle: Is The Rule A Reasonable Rule? The ugly duckling of just cause provisions

Episode 23: Just Cause Principle- Is There A Rule? breaking down this sub-question

Episode 22: Article 16.1 getting ready for the just cause principles. Making sure it's the "supervisor" that is doing the work

Episode 21: Examples of Behavior. public defender or Clarence Darrow. Who are you?

Episode 20: Article 16.10 the Discipline Killer

Episode 19: Article 16.8 Review of Discipline and the Swiss Army Knife. An in depth study on the concurrence of suspensions or discharge

Episode 18: Discipline and Management's Obligation Under Section 115 of the M-39 Handbook

Episode 17: Combating Criminal Statutes Cited in the Letter of Charges.

Episode 16: Article 16.6 Indefinite Suspension-Crime Situation. Unconfusing The Confusing. The Power of Nexus

Episode 15: Article 16.7 Emergency Procedure Much More Than Just "Immediate "

Episode 14: Defenses Against Unauthorized Overtime

Episode 13: Discussing Single Track vs Multi Track Discipline

Episode 12: Article 35 and Defending Against Charges Due to Alcohol and Drug Addiction

Episode 11: Defeating Stationary Events as well as Backing Based off of GPS tracking. Also deals with management spying and using covert techniques

Episode 10: Tenure and The Bank of Good Will

Episode 9 Part 3: Accidents and Examples of Behavior as well as Article 29

Episode 9 Part 2: PS Form 1769/301 Accident Report

Episode 9 Part 1: Defenses Against Vehicle Accidents. Article 41.3.p

episode 8 Part 3: Vera d. Bugg and Attendance Related Discipline

Episode 8 Part 2: Deems Desirable and Restricted Sick Leave