Title Undelivered : from the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the manufactured crisis of the U.S. Postal Service / Philip F. Rubio

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Postal workers and the rise of collective bargaining -- Rising expectations and brewing conflict -- The strike begins -- The strike ends -- Aftershocks and postal reorganization -- The U.S. Postal Service and the postal unions in the 1970s -- Almost striking again, arbitration, and automation, 1980s-1990s -- Downsizing, financial crisis, and the challenge for postal labor, 2000-2019 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-279) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject United States Postal Service -- Employees -- History National Association of Letter Carriers (U.S.) -- History American Postal Workers Union -- History SUBJECT American Postal Workers Union fast National Association of Letter Carriers (U.S.) fast United States Postal Service fast Subject Postal service -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century Postal service -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 21st century Postal Strike, U.S., 1970. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations Employees Postal service -- Employees -- Labor unions United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469655475 1469655470 9781469655482 1469655489

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