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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.
Editions of Undelivered
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- ISBN 9781469655451
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781469655468
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469655482
- EBook
- ISBN 9798890847843
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469655475
- PDF
- ISBN 9798890847836
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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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What is Undelivered about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Undelivered?
Economics, Finance, Business and Management > Industry and industrial studies > Industrial relations, occupational health and safety > Industrial arbitration and negotiation
Where can I read a sample of Undelivered?
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How long is Undelivered and how many pages does it have?
Undelivered has 304 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Undelivered?
Philip F. Rubio
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Undelivered is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781469655451) and paperback(ISBN 9781469655468) and ebook(ISBN 9781469655482) and ebook(ISBN 9798890847843) and ebook(ISBN 9781469655475) and pdf(ISBN 9798890847836)
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