1. By communicating lists of Labor 2016 participants to local managers, USPS headquarters assured that requests for union offical LWOP to engage in political activity would be favored.
2. USPS's local managers favored NALC members' requests for leave to engage in political activity during Labor 2016 because the requests were characterized as union official LWOP.
B. USPS's practice of favoring NALC's political activity violated the Hatch Act.
And the money shot:
However, OSC concludes that USPS management took official actions with the intent of enabling NALC's political activity, and with a clear understanding of what the activity involved. The collective involvement of USPS management in the Labor 2016 program constitutes a systemic violation of the Hatch Act.
Because the union sent lists requesting leave for union official political business, explicitly, and because the USPS didn't want to piss off the union and at the same time, try to not look like they were saying no to a particular candidate, they stepped in it. Now would this be a big deal if a bunch of non-union USPS employees took LWOP for campaigning for Trump, thereby 'eliminating' favoritism? Maybe not.
So are you saying I actually had a leg to stand on all this time?
It's not the going door-to-door/phone banks that's the problem. OSC took umbrage with granting LWOP for the Labor 2016 campaign, which was construed as an implicit endorsement of a particular partisan political campaign (and doing it for years prior). USPS
So, no... I still don't think you have a leg to stand on.
If you did, it'd only be a Peter Dinklage leg.
:snicker:
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Kazmyr wrote:It's not the going door-to-door/phone banks that's the problem. OSC took umbrage with granting LWOP for the Labor 2016 campaign, which was construed as an implicit endorsement of a particular partisan political campaign (and doing it for years prior). USPS
So, no... I still don't think you have a leg to stand on.
