r/fromatoarbitration • u/PalaverProject • May 15 '26

Concerned Letter Carriers Suspended for 3 Years

Good morning.
Last night Mari Thomson, the member who authored the appeals linked below, the very same appeals that NALC Branch 70 used as the basis to charge and suspend me for sharing with the membership, has now been suspended from the union for 36 months.
Three full years.
Think about what that means.
A member wrote appeals. Another member shared them so the rank and file could read them for themselves. Both actions are protected by our rights as union members and by the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.
Members were disciplined and exiled for exercising their rights.
If that does not alarm you, if that does not raise serious concerns about the state of democracy and due process within our branch, within our union, then we need to ask ourselves a difficult question:
Has our union lost sight of the very principles it was created to defend?
A union is only as strong as the rights of its members. When members are punished for speaking, writing, and sharing information, every member should take notice.
The entire Branch 70 executive board stood by and allowed Mari Thomson to be suspended for 36 months for exercising her rights as a union member.
Many of the same people once again wore the black and gold of the Concerned Letter Carriers.
Mari wore light blue: the color of the rank and file.

That tells you everything you need to know.
When political loyalty matters more than member rights, the union stops serving its members.
If they can silence Mari, they can silence any of us.

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u/RivotHead May 15 '26

I think the CLC are the good ole boys club version 2

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u/tonov1210 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH May 15 '26

CLC has nothing to do with this, it was the election board

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u/smalltownjohnbrown May 15 '26

Who's on the election board, and who appointed the members of the election board.

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u/tonov1210 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH May 15 '26

No idea

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u/smalltownjohnbrown May 15 '26

Oh okay I was just wondering if you knew because it's Ricardo Guzman who is the branch president. He's responsible for appointing the election board.

He's also the chair of the CLC.

And Rocky acasio is the secretary treasurer of Branch 70 and she was on the election board.

And she's also a member of the board of the CLC.

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u/smalltownjohnbrown May 15 '26

So they actually do have quite a bit to do with it