WATCH: Nannette Barragan Tears Louis DeJoy Apart Over 'Unacceptable Unsuitable' USPS Facilities
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2023
- Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-CA) questioned US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy during a House Oversight Committee hearing.
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Fire DeJoy and indict him.
He can’t simply be fired. The Board of Governors have to vote him out, and since they’re majority GOP, they won’t touch him.
FIRE HIM...PERIOD...
He needs to be fired. He is systematically destroying the postal service. Here in rural Oregon which the mail always went out same day now all of a sudden that is not possible. We are an hour away from the Portland airport😤😡
Yeah and do you know how much it's costs to fly mail vs drive? 95% cheaper
Mr. President,
PLEASE FIRE AND REPLACE LOUIS DEJOY NOW !!
Why is he still there?
Well, trump appointed himsnd I forget the reason, but Biden is unable to get rid of him.
He was appointed just before the 2020 election, and he went and smashed up perfectly good sorting machines.
He needs to go.
I fear that Dejoy will cause many problems as he did before during the presidential vote
I hope this guy gets removed immediately
Do some research and find out the process for appointing him AND getting rid of him. It's very easy to find out. A board of governors is responsible for that, their terms are 7 years unless they resign. Trump appointed several and they were confirmed by the Senate (part of the process), so they aren't going anywhere for another three years or so. Biden has made an appointment, Marty Welsh, and I'm not sure if he is confirmed. HE will tip the balance possibly enough to get this guy out.
DEJOY NEEDS to GO!!!!!
If his office had his A/C break down it would be fixed within the hour !
Maybe that should be a condition of his employment. No heat or ac until PO facilities are restored to proper working conditions. And NO, he cannot work from home.
@@TheCornhusker Such a double standard !!!
Less than an hour
De-joy is De-stroying USPS
Did we really expect anything different from a Trump appointee..
That was his job
His job is to make sure the USPS is eventually privitized. Then they can get rid of Unions and the employees rights. That’s the goal.
"do you ever visit post offices? Yes or no?" and he goes "frequently". He can't even follow instructions. This man should be fired, immediately. From all the testimony I've heard thus far, he's chaos. Trainwreck. Not making any improvements, and sounds like he's proposing some upcoming chaos with his "plans".
He uses his buddy DJT tactics. He can’t even answer a question Y or N without elaborating. So sad, he needs to be gone like yesterday.
Get rid of DeJoy. Postal workers deserve better.
Fire him already 😮
Mr. Dejoy…. Do your Fed-Ex employees also work in unsafe facilities?
LD is doing what he was hired to do, laying the groundwork for privatization of the USPS!
🎯 Bullseye.
There are some people whose comments here make it clear they don’t understand there’s a difference between things that can’t be controlled-the weather-and things that can be. Like working conditions inside a building. Just because letter carriers face extreme weather conditions doesn’t mean they deserve to tough it out inside a crappy building with no HVAC, not to mention the clerks and mail handlers that spend their whole day there.
They don't care about peops, only money and power (outages) lmao,
Go Grewsome, Pelosi already dead.
The N.W.O. can go WOKE FAR FAR
AWAY, LIKE MARS FOR EXAMP.
G.Bless
I worked at the downtown Portland OR facility for 6 mos once. It was brutal, the safety issues were numerous. The managers were pretty bad too.
@@PDXDrumr I can’t say I’m surprised. There’s a toxic dynamic in management, so very few non toxic people can tolerate being a manager.
@@heathera2874 so sad that seems to be the case for much of the postal service. There are a lot of decent hardworking people that keep the mail moving, no thanks to management. Best wishes to you, take care of yourself.
They have had delays for 8 months. That's called bat at your job period
That's so true about the work conditions, that is one of the reasons why USPS has such a big turnovers. Something needs to be done before 2024
His defense is "It was like that when I got here." 😂😂😂😂
Hot take from a postal worker: there is no way to make working at the post office "safe" then entire job is a giant hazard: From the trucks, heavy equipment, weather elements, dogs, etc. While there are things they could repair or address, the majority of hazards are part of the job. Attention to detail and general common sense are the best way to avoid these hazards. Throwing more money at this problem will not fix it. If this lady really wants to help us out tell them to stop rushing us, the majority of accidents and injuries are from RUSHING. Your postal carriers are cranky and rude bc they are in a hurry to avoid being berated by management.
They definitely need awd vehicles in areas that get snow. To not have those on these back country roads is ridiculous. They are rear wheel drive for crying out loud. And some people are still driving the LLV’s from the early 90’s! THAT is ridiculous! And could definitely be improved!
real good "postal worker"....my mail delivery people are not cranky or rude. good grief, trix, life is a giant hazard. what is this throwing money baloney? you think common sense will help is a freezing building?
@@billgraham861 @billgraham861 silly billy, I'm not a cranky carrier myself, and I know many that aren't, but I know plenty that are. I see that you're not arguing the point I made, which was that carriers being rushed and treated poorly is a giant hazard they could and should address at no cost. Maybe I am a little cranky today, I say all this as we are delivering in Houston Texas where 700,000 people are without power. They could throw some money at generators for our stations, it's definitely a hazard working in the back of a building with no windows.
Goes to show he don’t care he want Expo an ups are competition to be on top while us at Usps suffer
Ah... I rest my case as to the intellectual brain power of the workers. What tests are given to get a postal job? What IQ level must you have? They certainly should be able to read and write a sentence correctly and use punctuation properly. Is this the result of Affirmative action? It sure looks like it.
@@buffyranger6355 what an idiotic comment. There is an exam that you have to take. A simple Google search would have been better instead of berating this person. The Postal Exam became an extremely difficult hurdle for USPS applicants when it was updated in 2023. Only 10-20% of applicants pass the exam’s passing grade of 70% and go on to receive a job offer.
@@buffyranger6355 you have no actual clue what you are blabbering about do you? I passed the postal exam, and it was fairly rough.
He's lying through both sides of his mouth. There's absolutely money, it's funding the retirement plansof employees that haven't been hired yet.
DeJoy is quite a joke , not worth his pay
Why does he stutter so much? Why cant he be replaced?
Suddenly when he is caught.
The PMG should be indicted on Rico Racketeering charges for paying off the Rural carriers union officials
AGREED 💯
What a waste of time!
He’s full of it, how can you process mail while you’re shivering in a 30 degrees warehouse for 8 plus hours. Bet he can’t do that 😜
That is the response we get from management. We also were not paid for working 6 to 7 days a week when covid hit and the mail was like Christmas everyday. We still have uet to get hazard pay and the pay when Amazon increased the packages
I hate how he says there's no money!!!
I guess we, that work outdoors are REALLY being mistreated 🥵
I've been sitting here thinking the same thing...that and what does she think about the delivery person's working "conditions".
The mail carriers for USPS work outside, duh. Think before you type, USPS employees should be treated as other federal employees. Want the benefits, then go to usps jobs! If you just want to be a smart guy, use your brain.
Before the mail gets to a carrier it is processed in a building facility. I belive now mail comes all nice and organized when years ago you stood in front of a "case that held a slot for each mail box on the route" and you stood there for hours sorting handfuls of mail and placing in each slot that represented the mail address box before you toke all the mail out of the slots placed in order of the route in a plastic container load up anywhere from 5 to 16 + plastic containers into your car or mail truck to take out for delivery for another 4-7 hours or more depending on how heavy the mail volume was and weather conditions then go back to office and case more mail that came into the office while you were out delivering .
@@johnneal7169 get your butt here at USPS and see how long you last! This is just the tip of the iceberg here! STFU if you’re not aware of the behind scenes! 🙋🏾♀️
We sort mail inside before going outside to deliver, duh. Use your own suggestion and use your brain before typing
Trump's legacy... Remove this abject failure immediately!
😢DeJoy has destroy the Post Offices, our mails get lost, tossed, stolen, and destroyed. Many Postal Service Places need to be repaired. He had disrespectful towards -Women and Men of Diversity's, Veteran's young snd old. He had to go. He wants Privatized Postal Services'. Cut is pay.
The problem with USPS is with local management. The abuse they inflict on carriers is real. Mail delivery would be so much more efficient without terrible leadership.
As far as "Temperature" in working facilities, I've worked loading docks for a major trucking company where in the winter it would get down to single digit temperatures and in the summer In excess of 100 degrees.
Just because your willing to be exploited and taken advantage doesn't mean that others so. That is why there is labor laws and employees have the right to organize so that employees have avenues to change worming conditions
😢 Please send DeJoy his Retirement/Fraudulent/Employee Cruelty of Personnel concerning ALL Postal Services. DeJoy is disrespectful of ALL Postal Services and the deliveries. In Compton, CA I have had to pay four late payments of four letters lost. I am losing money not gaining fast Postal deliveries.
These guys are driving around in a sweat box pissing in bottles working 12 15 hour days with basically zero appreciation.
He needs to GO!
So where does the Money go ?!?!?
Into his and his buddies pockets. There's a reason he has slowed down the mail so it can go by truck instead of plane. His old company which he still has shares in continues to see a increase in postal contracts
H20 WATER BILL MAILED IN SAME
CITY // ARRIVES PASS DUE DATE.
I GET FINED LATE FEE. TOLD TO
ASK POST OFC. WHY IT WAS LATE
H20 OFC. HAS A DROP BOX BUT
IT IS UNACCESSIBLE WHEN GATES
ARE CLOSED. PICO WATER DIST. CA.
Should of asked for proof what he has been doing to rectify conditions anywhere.
Too many post mail delays... now takes 20 plus days vs past 14 days for mail to reach nations in Southeast Asia...
Funding for the post office is written into the Constitution. Enough with the empty excuses!
It's in the constitution? Where?
1 of the requirements was extreme temperatures, inside and out., at least since the early 90's,
Remember government workers deserve a higher standard than mere citizens. Not only better working conditions but also better benefit, pay and health care. After all government is the largest employer in our country. Need to keep the numbers up!
Remember when things are privatized they are for the good of the owners not the consumer.
USPS is the second largest employer in the US. Walmart is #1
It's not the mail... it's the packages and shipment. USPS should prioritize mail and control the load they can handle. Raise the stamp prices if you have to. Leave the shipment to the experts.
heh?
Dejoy was born on a Summer's Eve. Not sure why folks are still surprised by any of this.
This was over 11 months ago. Has ANYTHING changed???
She not asking the right questions that’s the little of our problems at the postal that should of ask last about the “AC” seriously. What’s going on with hours when everything is being raised up , toxic management, unsafe environment, getting robbed , and more police or security on site..
I’m a NYC 25 year postal employee horrible work conditions…. We had an oil leak in basement where carrier’s work & supervisors were told NOT to tell us bcuz we would’ve gone home as workers complained about a smell ..some went home & were threatened to NOT get paid ..PLZZZ HELP GET DEJOY OUT!!!!
Have postal employees in NYC not heard of osha or the national labor board? Postal employees need to learn how to take the time to learn there rights and how to get other agencies involved to hold management accountable
@@MailHandlerInThe505 yes osha was called by our union rep…
@prdivamom the union needs to take pics and appeal the post offices investigation. When a osha complaint is made the post office is ordered to investigate the claim. The post office is notorious for lying. The union MUST take pics to appeal this causing a osha inspector to come see the issue themselves.
If that doesn't happen the local union needs to contact the national union which had a safety and health committee. In the mine time employees can refuse to work in this area as it is unsafe to so do. The law protects employees from having to work in a unsafe work area
This dude still have a job
And after all this time nothing has changed.
What is the point of these hearings, or Congress at all????
After all this time it's changed but not for the good.
It doesn't help when mgmnt says "well if you don't like it you can leave".
Or I can contact pmg and you can tell him how you feel.
I'm a conservative. I got to give the guy some credit He didn't flat out lie to our faces like Alejandro mayorkas.. this guy admitted what was going on. And he had a lot more work to do. unlike Alejandro who flat out lies and says everything's under control The borders secure no immigrants crossing He should be impeached immediately just saying
fire him...orange man hire..owns major trucking co. that delivers mail..
Did I hear the Rep. say it was 28 degrees in Carson California? no freakin way!
28° is tanning weather in Minnesota.
Yes. I work there.
Yes way it was like working in a freezer
Yeah 28 is a stretch. I live in Compton which is walking distance to Carson and it hardly ever gets that cold. If it did that was an outlier day for coldness.
@@Jd-zk8zl
It’s a light jacket day, if you’re moving around.
When he starts batting his eyes he’s lying 🤥
WHY IS HE STILL THE POSTMASTER GENERAL???????
De Joy is a terrible leader. Keeps deflecting blame. Why take the job of you can't even deliver mail.
Omg you got to work in 100 degrees aww I work construction lol yeah so un suitable lol
Unfair? You caused the issues. He needs to be FIRED.
What about meat lockers and metal workers?? They do it all day every day.
Start reporting your issues to osha. You can't complain that postal workers working conditions are being brought up because they do something about it and you don't.www.osha.gov/form/osha7
How does DeJerk still have a job??
I'm calling BS on no money. use the billions
you earmarked for Ukraine
This is all she's got? Embarrassing.
And we are sending hundreds of billions to Ukrain
Those people are being suppressed. We on the other had are just stupid…
Tell you know nothing about whays going on, without telling me you don't. These two have nothing to do with each other.😂😂
He's right. If the commission was so hard pressed to help it running, they wouldn't have let the system itself get so outdated!
Both can be true and both are true at the same time
He needs to go they go our mails is getting messed here in Texas to been getting my mail and meds late and its not the mail man or post office its him messing shit up he suck time to go
This guy needs to be run out of town, usps used to be a great place to work when it was run right. This guy took over it’s been all down hill.
People work outside all the time. Lol. I know inside and gov is different. State, federal, local, HW Department employees work in much worse conditions as well. Hate to defend the usps but goodness. The usps needs to be gutted.
He is sorry He worried about his money company
As I stand in line of 15 people at a major PO in Florida and there is only 1 PO counter clerk, I wonder why. this is a daily situation at this major PO and holidays are even worse. I came from the Midwest to Florida and was puzzled why citizens in Floirda are given only the option of going to a PO when in my State of Iowa, the plethora of grocers have PO abilities. I could purchase stamps, mail letters and packages, purchase mailing supplies but NOT in Florida. his 10-year plan appears to put the USPS on a fast track towards privatization, job cuts, and negatively impacted service operations. It is concerning that, increasingly, mail delivery is delayed which businesses and citizens count on. especially concerning that mr. dejoy is a major trump supporter and with the many republicans in leadership trying to negate citizen voting rights, this is a major concern. and when ivanka trump received a patent from China in 2018 on voting machines, how can that impact our votes?
I delivered mail on ruale, city, mail and worked for companys that has the Priority mail contracts back in the late 1990s. Never have I've seen mail so screwed up, so unsecured mail being stolen from mail boxes , mail delivery never the same carrier never the same time each day and many days no carrier at all. Ever since DeJoy toke the Post Master General postion has mail been such a disaster. And No one else is to blame but this man right here. I honestly believe his only agenda is to take the US postal service into privatization. To run the mail into pure destruction. Th we re is absolutely no reason at all that for 2 years blue common mail boxes are still having mail stolen out of them with the key being used to get into the boxes. The boxes aren't being dragged with any auto, truck, bull dozer, not being blown up but boxes still in perfect condition with just the mail taken out of it in the Philadelphia area and surrounding areas. So someone from the inside has given people the master key to the boxes. Then any checks people have written for their bills are then having the checks ink washed out and made out to someone else and a different amount on the checks and many people have had to close their bank accounts and have a mess trying to straighten this crime out. I know that when something like this happens the postal service is or did have their own investigators to stop and charge and arrest the crimanls which is a federal offense. Of they are still employed or have done away with these jobs or positions with a excuse to "save money", which i would really belive this robbery that has been going on for 2 years and the very destruction that has been taken place I will say the jobs to investigate federal mail crimes is not being done or anyone to do the jobs. I will also add on my professional opinion that if the US military system is destroyed and goes into privatization the cost of mail will be absolutely put of this world, the sercurity of all mail will be a night mare and would never be as secure as it was before DeJoy. Private companys would be in competition with each other cut the cost of doing crimanl back round checks, hire investigators for any crimes even with a carrier, etc it would be the biggest night mare no one could even imagine. I saw this with the couple of companys that just had contracts for just the Priority mail . Old falling apart no heat, no air conditioning ,dirty buildings just to handle the shear volume of Priority mail. People stealing QVC packages , people that didn't want to work , people that didn't care etc. So the best thing that could ever happen is to get the old post master general back or to advise on how to fix all the destruction DeJoy has accomplished or others that have known how the mail system worked and bring new ways to get it back on track. The US mail service has been the best mail system the most least expensive in this world. Globally there isn't a better system than the one our country has had. Also the US mail service has many benefits that privatization would never get and again would add to the cost of all mail services. Like parking tickets, vehicles, etc.
The two most pro-union presidents (FDR/JFK) both agreed on one thing about unions.
No government agency should be able to organize i.e. unionize.
Okay??? Learn how to Spell also!
How many votes were dumped on rural roads or in Dumps during the Election ? Get the Union out and the USPS might be ok .
Uhm....you mean, UNION's! Plural. The PO having ALLLLL those unions makes them pretty much useless! They're already divided and conquered. They have no strike clauses so they really have no power to do anything. You wanna fix the PO? Fire 50% of management, stop hiring unqualified folks at both EAS level employment and skilled trade positions, hire full-time carriers and get off the temp (cca) employees, close/consolidate leased, ran down and underperforming facilities and retail units, bring back service standards, ect. Stop promoting folks just because they can put on a suit! Talking about HVAC....lol...you have to be permitted to purchase filters and do preventative maintenance to keep the air and heat going. It costs more to fix it when you "run til fail" ;)
Not happening the Union isn't going anywhere.
You get the unions out and we usps employees would be treated like amazon employees. No thank you we ll stick with the union so we can be paid fairly
@@MailHandlerInThe505True story 💯
Yes!! Get the union out that always helps the workers.
I don’t know why they’re all convicts and thieves now, with tattoos on their necks and stealing stuff everywhere you go can’t even get a package anymore without it being broken into or gone or stolen or lost
when you don't offer competitive salaries and benefits to public sector workers, you end up with people who may be unqualified or unsuitable. It's the same with teachers and nurses, you get what you pay for.
Can't blame the guy not like he been running it for the last 100 yrs but he not doing anything while he there is the issue
Wow where was all the concern when I was working in lumber mills? Hot summers and cold icy winters were the norm in Oregon and Montana. Don’t recall getting pensions from those jobs either…
Sounds like you should of organized so you could of had the able to negotiate and grieve your grievances
That's exactly how your company wanted you to react. No pension? F'n joke. Doesn't mean everyone should put up with that.
Yikes, did he realize where he was at??
Wow..no way Shameful wrong type of building geez.. TOOL
What about the workers outside the facilities? Are crews with HVAC systems supposed to follow them around while they pick up and deliver? They can't even take breaks in many areas (no facilities).
MAGA Pro-Trump DeJoy is still there? Come on.
I donot like this man
You’re enjoying yourselves???
Send the money to the USPS not Ukraine
LOL!!! Not when there is a Trump cultist at the helm. He'll launder that money back to his corporate accounts.
OMG! I wish this man was gone from this position and someone competent hired. It is a travesty what he has done!
Blahahaha, suddenly congress is again concerned with postal operations! Getting ready for the next money grab from the postal service? Dejoy not responsible for this. The past 20+ years, the postal service has been cutting the very jobs that take care of facilities to "save money", while at the same time beefing up EAS, aka management jobs. It's pretty sad when you have more management level classes vs maintenance classes at their national training center campus. That's what you get when 50k of your 600k employees are within the managerial ranks, and that doesn't include administration related employees. They say they cut jobs but they just create other positions and move people around. There are areas all over the country where you have over 130+ offices, maintained by 2 technicians! Lol, 2! Those 2 employees have a supervisor AND a FMO manager.
does the temperature there i California get down to 30 degrees
It depends on what part of California.
Mr. DeJoy should say what he means and mean what he says. And get off the booze or whatever it is it’s making him so crazy. “ Nope “ is how my 8 year old answers a question.very Condescending and disrespectful.
He is nothing but a cocky liar. We are trying is his only answer. He could care less.
My Governor and Senators have also written him and crickets. He KNOWS he can't be fired or at least easily. Biden got to nominate a new Governor's Board member, but I don't know if the Senate has confirmed him. The Governors are the ONLY people who can get rid of this idiot.
Yes USPS sucks period
But why civic would constitutional individual constitution charge on money done alone ?
Slaves we our or they want
Santanic 😮
Their busted,,,,Biden admin a FRAUD,,,,,,D,S, BAD ACTORS
Give me USPS I can make it work in 2 days
AC is a requirement? Tell that to Europeans. Nobody has AC there
When I was with DoD we had no AC in most buildings. Was that cruelty? Unsafe?
So let me get this straight sir. It is your testimony that its perfectly fine to force them to work in a unsafe environment as long as the company is 'working on it'?
DeJoy is a total disaster who doesn’t care about his employees, or service to the people. The board of governors need to wake up and get that Trumper out and get someone who actually cares about the people, the employees, and Service to the people
These people knew, im sorry i cant stand dejoy myself but these damn politicians are so funny. They know we're working in unsafe buildings and trucks. They know we're outside in the heat, put in dangerous areas forced to continue in hazardous conditions. But yet everybody wanna just NOW focus on our issues. Get dejoy out and throw some of these political figures in too.
Im not one that wants job conditions to get worse and worse and the employees have no say in the matter...especially since im a blue collar worker for over 30 yrs now. However, if you take those "horrendous" conditions and add in rain, sleet,snow,bright sunshine, wind, storms, hail, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc then those post office employees would experience what post office delivery persons experience everyday, year after year after year. They might also want to keep in mind before they strike again that theres thousands among thousands of people coming into our country everyday thatd think having a job with a roof over their heads is awesome
Hopefully, they can get rid of all these pampered American workers and hire immigrants at much lower wages and conditions, who complain less.
@meenki347 and hopefully the same will happen to you lmao
RUDE
He's terrible and so are the people in upper management. Super abusive, toxic and hostile to employees.
Their idea of safety is slapping a sticker saying be mindful it's unsafe.
Your not forced to work in those conditions !!! Get another job !!! You don’t like the ghetto you live in and created move out. You want to get paid better ? Educate yourself for a quality paying job. This is simple life 101