Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service...

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Philip F. Rubio

Undelivered

From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service

Philip F. Rubio

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The University of North Carolina Press
30 May 2020

History of the Americas; Personnel & human resources management; Strikes

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.

By: Philip F. Rubio
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 604g
ISBN: 9781469655451
ISBN 10: 1469655454
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 30 May 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service

This book chronicles the roots, conduct, and legacy of the 1970 strike by more than 200,000 postal workers from 671 offices ranging from Albany and Akron to St. Paul and San Francisco. . . . Rubio, a former postal clerk and letter carrier, closes this timely, compelling account with an extended reflection on the costs of the politically manufactured financial crisis, the postal service's increasingly diverse workforce, and the country at large.--CHOICE