Releasing Those Names Part 3- The National Association of Letter Carriers Branch# 274
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS- The NALC is the union responsible for representing and protecting letter carriers. When it comes to Abuse and Harassment by USPS management as well as USPS coworkers, the NALC is a complete and utter failure. Their grievance system is a slap on the wrist to management and a slap in the face to the letter carriers.
BRIAN THOMPSON- Brian Thompson is the National Business Agent of our Region 12. Sometime after I handed Robert Mangarell's murder threats to my Postmaster, I called the NBA office to let them know about the situation with Robert Mangarell in our office and how he had been harassing me for a year and a half. Brian Thompson had no care in the world that a male carrier was abusing me and proceeded to yell at me on the phone asking me who told me to hand those murder threats to the Postmaster? I told him I was now working with a different union official beyond our Region. He proceeded to tell me several times he "couldn't help me unless I gave him the name of the union official that told me to hand those murder threats to the Postmaster". Brian Thompson is a corrupt union official who let a male letter carrier abuse a female carrier.
CHAD DREISBACH- Chad Dreisbach has been my grievance representative in instances where I was not the steward at the Jim Thorpe post office and my 3 Emergency Placements.
I first met him during my first Emergency Placement by Jennifer Torraco. My impression was he was a strong union representative who wasn't going to put up with the bullshit of our management and was going to protect his union members.
That all changed with Dana Yaglowski's arrival to my office. I was told on several occasions by Dana Yaglowski that she knew Chad very well and they were friends who called each other often at work to give each other advice.
Chad Dreisbach over the course of the last 2 years has never provided me with any copies of my disparate treatment grievances I requested from him. I have given several examples of disparate treatment by Dana Yaglowski. The first disparate treatment grievance Chad told me it was not disparate treatment. The 2nd disparate treatment grievance he said Dana Yaglowski hung up a sign at the timeclock. That is not how grievances work. Chad Dreisbach was supposed to have a copy of this grievance. I was never handed anything. The 3rd disparate treatment grievance I asked Chad to file, he told me it wasn't settled in office with Dana Yaglowski and it was going down to DRT (the Dispute Resolution Team). I waited a whole year for the results of that grievance, only to find out I had been lied to. The grievance was never filed and it didn't exist.
On a separate occasion at work, Dana Yaglowski denied me EEO time on the clock at work. She told me she had a phone conversation with Chad Dreisbach and he had told her to deny me the EEO time because I wasn't allowed to request the time on the form I filled out. I texted Chad about this. He never responded. I told Tom Cser about this incident. He informed me Chad was wrong and Dana couldn't deny me that EEO request on that form.
In another incident, I was yelled at by Dana Yaglowski on the Postal lot that I needed to punch out, go home and I was being charged with unauthorized overtime because I was late to work that day. Once again, Dana said she was following what Chad Dreisbach told her to do. Nevermind I am rarely late, I wasn't allowed to work past 4:30 that day and had to go home without my 8 hour guarantee, Mary Goodhile is late by at least 1 hour everyday and is always allowed to work past 4:30. I wonder if Chad Dreisbach said anything to his friend Dana about this. Tom Cser is aware of everything I have ever told him about Chad Dreisbach's misrepresentation. I am not aware that Tom Cser ever conducted any investigation on Chad.
Since Tom Cser refuses to provide me with a different union representative, I am stuck with Chad Dreisbach at all or most of my PDIs (Pre-Disciplinary Interviews). I have received several PDIs since I started this petition. Chad Dreisbach told me I should not be posting anything online about work. Yes this person who has misrepresented me over the last 2 years and allowed his Postmaster "friend" to almost ruin my career twice, told me I should keep quiet. He also told me on several occasions that nothing would come from my grievances or my petition. Here is a very encouraging union official trying to tell me I'm better off staying quiet about USPS abuse and harassment. That is so easy for someone to tell someone else to shut up about a situation when they themselves have never been in my position, facing 2 abusive coworkers and 2 abusive Postmasters who almost ruined my career and my life.
I gave up my stewardship with the NALC due to the lack of action by my branch. I knew eventually the way things were going, I was going to have no choice someday but to rat out my abusive coworkers, something the NALC gets furious about. I just never considered ratting out my branch until after the March 2025 Emergency Placement. You can only go through something so many times and watch your union do so little for you over and over again.
TINA WELLER- I really can't believe I'm forced to write about a woman from my union who was only at my office twice during the 4 years. Tina Weller is the vice-president of my branch 274 and she is without a shadow of a doubt the most despicable person I have ever come across as my union representative.
She was at the Jim Thorpe post office in 2021 for a PDI being given to me by Jennifer Torraco. Tina Weller asked me what was going on. I told her Jennifer Torraco was a lunatic who was trying to get me fired. During the PDI, everything going on the floor at work with Mary Goodhile and Robert Mangarell was brought up. Tina Weller told me it was all "gossip" and I needed to "let it go in 1 ear and out the other". This comment has stuck with me ever since because what these people were doing to me in this office wasn't "gossip". It was 3 people trying to destroy my career and my life. Before Tina Weller left that day in 2021, she made the comment to me, "they have statements against you".
Fast forward to October 2024. The day after the altercation with Mary Goodhile once again in which I left work and went to Susan Wild's office, Tina Weller was up here for a meeting with me and Dana Yaglowski to find out what happened.
During the meeting, Mary Goodhile's drinking on the job came up. When I was telling Dana Yaglowski about the drinking incidents at work, Tina commented, "you better have proof of that". So essentially my union representative during this meeting was accusing me of lying about my coworker's drinking on the job. She and Dana Yaglowski had no concern about an employee driving a Postal vehicle while under the influence of alcohol but asked me if I would be OK to drive a Postal vehicle with anxiety issues. Yes this is what they actually did in trying to spin the whole situation on myself.
Then at the end of the meeting, Tina Weller mentioned EAP to me, the Employee Assistance Program. She made the comment to me that EAP has very good therapists who can treat depression, all while Dana Yaglowski nodded her head. All of a sudden Tina Weller, believing she had a medical degree was falsely accusing me of having depression and was trying to make me out to be a sick person. This is often a tactic the USPS does to employees who speak out, make them out to look like the psychos or the sick person. I never expected the same tactic being used by my own union. I came out of this meeting feeling both attacked by Dana Yaglowski and my own union representative, Tina Weller. This was essentially the last straw for me.
My witness told me, that they tried to have a talk with Tina Weller that day to explain everything that was going on in this office but she was completely uninterested and changed the subject.
Once again before Tina Weller left our office that day in October 2024, she once again told me, "they have statements against you". A few months back I requested a copy of all of these "statements" by everyone that supposedly existed. I was given absolutely NOTHING by Tom Cser to substantiate their accusations that there were "statements against me". This tells me the only 2 times Tina Weller was up here she purposely lied about those statements to try to shut me up. Yes, this is the vice-president of branch 274. Utterly despicable.
I get and I understand that the NALC has a responsibility to represent every 1 of their members and protect every 1 of their members but for almost 4 years in this office they chose to protect everyone else in this office at my expense. They never conducted a full and proper investigation into this office and Tom Cser ignored my requests to have him sit down with Mary Goodhile and Robert Mangarell and get them off my backs. And it is really alarming he never did because he knows all too well about Robert Mangarell's temper because he experienced it himself. The NALC showed to me they are exactly like the USPS in that they do not care about coworkers harassing and abusing other coworkers. The NALC preaches unity but ignores their own abuse.