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

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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, thre...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rubio, Philip F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Subjects:
United States Postal Service > Employees > History.
National Association of Letter Carriers (U.S.) > History.
American Postal Workers Union > History.
American Postal Workers Union.
National Association of Letter Carriers (U.S.)
United States Postal Service.
1900-2099
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.
Postes > Personnel > Syndicats > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Postes > Personnel > Syndicats > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
Employees.
Postal service > Employees > Labor unions.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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