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Undelivered - From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service (Hardcover)
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Undelivered - From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service (Hardcover)
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For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an
illegal "wildcat" strike-the largest in United States history-for
better wages and working conditions. Picket lines started in New
York and spread across the country like wildfire. Strikers defied
court injunctions, threats of termination, and their own union
leaders. In the negotiated aftermath, the U.S. Post Office became
the U.S. Postal Service, and postal workers received full
collective bargaining rights and wage increases, all the while
continuing to fight for greater democracy within their unions.
Using archives, periodicals, and oral histories, Philip Rubio shows
how this strike, born of frustration and rising expectations and
emerging as part of a larger 1960s-1970s global rank-and-file labor
upsurge, transformed the post office and postal unions. It also led
to fifty years of clashes between postal unions and management over
wages, speedup, privatization, automation, and service. Rubio
revives the 1970 strike story and connects it to today's postal
financial crisis that threatens the future of a vital 245-year-old
public communications institution and its labor unions.
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