{"podcast":{"title":"Classes of Mail","slug":"classes-of-mail-6306410","podcast_index_feed_id":6306410,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/classesofmail/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/classesofmail","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/classesofmail/20260404_010430_5efa4cf3dbe211ee150f4050bde3b4e6.png","author":"Alan Gegax","episode_count":266,"summary":"This podcast is intended to empower city letter carriers. Through education, we'll make ourselves better carriers who are immune to discipline and mistreatment by management, and are forces for positive change and reform within our own union. I do not speak for the USPS or NALC (or anybody else, for that matter!), this is not an official USPS or NALC podcast, and all opinions and advice are my own or my guests'. Submit feedback, questions, or topic suggestions to classesofmail@gmail.com .","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classes-of-mail-6306410"},"episode":{"title":"Charges Against Michael Rivera","slug":"charges-against-michael-rivera","published_at":"2026-03-11T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classes-of-mail-6306410/charges-against-michael-rivera","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classes-of-mail-6306410","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/classesofmail/2607907","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/203340/2607907/classesofmail/2026_03_07_04_43_51_5dc2136f-c1e1-4923-82d6-ceff375e9ff8.mp3","summary":"Well, well, well... the shoe is on the other foot! Michael Rivera is a reformer from Branch 70 in San Diego who found himself in the national spotlight (at least among reform-minded podcasters) when he brought charges against NALC President Brian Renfroe; and then brought charges against the entire Executive Council. Michael recently ran for office in his own branch, and found what he believes to be significant deviations from the NALC's published election rules. He brought those issues to light with an election appeal, and published that appeal on social media, along with the appeals of two other members of his branch. Now, the members of the branch's election committee have brought charges against Michael for that publication. In this episode, we talk about the charges, and how the charges mirror similar charges that Michael Brasaemle and I faced stemming from our own branch election.","meta_description":"Well, well, well... the shoe is on the other foot! Michael Rivera is a reformer from Branch 70 in San Diego who found himself in the national spotlight (a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3994,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/classes-of-mail-6306410/episodes/charges-against-michael-rivera/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classes-of-mail-6306410/charges-against-michael-rivera.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}