Women Abused
Inhumanely Mistreated
In the US Postal Service

"Stop the Retaliation Postmaster General Henderson"

Project One Voice
wrote Postmaster General on May 20, 2000.
It never received a response from him.
Further retaliation followed Frances.
The subject was:

RETALIATION TO WORKERS WHO PURSUE CIVIL RIGHTS
IS AGAINST THE LAW
AND A DELIBERATE AND MALICIOUS ATTEMPT
TO TAKE A WORKER TO SUICIDE

Employed 9 years as a mail processor clerk
she placed a Civil Rights complaint
sex harassment by her supervisor
Subjected to various acts of retaliation
daily, frequently, deliberately maliciously
imposed by US Postal supervisory management
the closer she is to the date of her
civil rights Administrative Hearing

After writing Chairperson John McHugh
who notified
the Office of Inspector General,
Karla Corcoran,
Francesana received an abrupt
and immediate removal
of approximately two months
with no notice,
or instructions
as required contractually

Emotionally and financially broken
She has since been returned to her workplace,
Daily subjected to abusive mistreatment
by the US Postal Service
management in her work area.

The US Postal Service
well aware of medical documentation
submitted to the Agency

Deliberate aggravation to the health of Frances
by retaliatory and discriminatory actions
By Postal supervision
Can be detrimental and life threatening.

Retaliation has no place in a federal workplace
Unnecessary and vindictive attempt
to bring a worker to suicide
Emotional damage to stop a civil rights process.

Project One Voice,
nationwide group of
current and former postal workers,
Work to Preserve the Integrity of the Civil Rights Act.
Many received the exact pattern
of mistreatment that Frances alleges.

Malicious & deliberate retaliation
For a civil rights action
is against the law

Coffin v Postal Service
a case which the family of Judy Coffin, a suicide,
of Portland, Maine
sued and won a judgement
of five million dollars
attributed to the abuse of Ms Coffin.
The jury spoke.

Aware of Frances' medical situations
that have arisen from the sex harassment complaint,
the USPS appears to extend this same mistreatment
to her as was to Ms Coffin,
and all nationwide.

We hope with this memorandum
the supervision of the US Postal Service
is reminded that we are receiving favorable interest
and action from Civil Rights Leaders,
and national women’s groups
that do not tolerate damage, harm, and retaliation
to workers who seek remedy
through the Civil Rights Act.

In Stoll v Runyon,
a female employee went on to attempt suicide
while the supervisor was gainfully employed
after it was decided he was a federal rapist.
Frivolous, non enforcement treatment of
Zero Tolerance policies.

The US Postal Service is conducting
itself above the law,
Not complying with Zero Tolerance Policies
Adding to the pattern of nationwide retaliation.

We begged the PMG
Please investigate
End the retaliation

To continue to do so is to
vindictively attempt
to bring another worker to suicide
which is a nationwide complaint
amongst those in Project One Voice.

To aggravate the health injuries of a worker
while the Agency is informed
is to be deliberate and vindictive.

For the record, one of your supervisors
confided to the retaliation being ordered
as a goal to stop her from pursuing her civil rights.

Please cease and desist the retaliation,
let the Civil Rights process take its course.

The PMG, Management were notifed with this letter

The Postal Inspectors Arrive:

The response from the PMG was none. Postal Inspection Service contacted Frances and her husband; requested to meet secretly at her home to "help" her which she refused. She then met with the PIS at their offices and alleges they requested all litigation papers for which she refused; she was told to report to work on the same date.

Bogus "Investigative Interview":
Upon her arrrival her supervisors conducted an investigative interview on a bogus issue as Frances alleges bullied, "why did you use one hour of annual leave (already approved in writing)".

This caused her an emotional breakdown in her workplace for which her supervisors skipped sending her to the nearest hospital facility and sent her alone to one 50 miles away.

She was then placed on Administrative Paid Leave by Postal Inspection Service (as if she were a criminal). Her pay was then suspended once again and she was unable to pursue her EEOC Administrative Hearing.

Several adverse actions have followed which involved the removal from her workplace with NO PAY, and no explanation.

Presently, Frances and her family remain without pay. So many of us recognize this pattern as designed to devastate us so we do not pursue our civil rights complaints.

The US Postal Service had a motive. They were ordered by Congress to squash the complaints in order to pass Postal Reform, and they decided the squashing of "complainants" would work better.

Frances & her family remain with postal income cut off and her health has seriously deteriorated.

September 2000 Chairperson of the Postal Subcommittee, John McHugh publicly criticized the Postal Inspectors as having become the great protectors of "commercial interest" instead of "law." Immediately thereafter, advertisements and propaganda of their integrity went out to the public.

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
--Steve Biko

Judy Coffinizing
"Frances, they are trying to "Judy Coffinize" you. Don't give into the pain and temptation of suicide. You may slip away into deep sleep while they will continue to do the same to others."