TY - BOOK
T1 - Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service
AU - Rubio, Phil F
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Book Blurb: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 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, rising expectations, and part of a 1960s-70s 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, connecting it to today’s manufactured (but very real) postal financial crisis that threatens the future of a vital 245-year-old public communications institution and its labor unions.Philip F. Rubio is professor of history at North Carolina A&T State University and the author of There’s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality.
AB - Book Blurb: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 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, rising expectations, and part of a 1960s-70s 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, connecting it to today’s manufactured (but very real) postal financial crisis that threatens the future of a vital 245-year-old public communications institution and its labor unions.Philip F. Rubio is professor of history at North Carolina A&T State University and the author of There’s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality.
M3 - Book
BT - Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service
PB - University of North Carolina Press
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