A grievance filed by my father
on September 27, 1973 was held in arbitration until after his retirement.
The arbitrator nonchalantly noted that Mr. Payne, he had heard, was retried
now. This was the reason that my father received no pay for the heavy duty
route he was assigned for the next four years. Although this was a devastating
part of the grievance to him he was able to bring to light the evaluation
of several parts of this route, one being that there were miles of retrace
for which the carrier was not paid. After this determination was made the
National Rural Carriers Association changed the National Bylaws to allow
all heavy duty routes that had retrace to be paid mileage for that retrace.
Something that had not been done before my father's grievance. I am putting
only the first ten pages online now and will put the other ten later. Here are some pictures of Rural Route #3 in 1974 and correspondence from Senator Howard Baker. From what I have read in the local Progress there hasn't been much. Joe Payne
