Author: George A. DonnellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The Union Postal Clerk
Author: George A. DonnellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Union Postal Clerk
Author: The Union Postal Clerk
Author: The Union Postal Clerk & the Postal Transport Journal
Author: There's Always Work at the Post Office
Author: Philip F. RubioPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807895733
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often are written as if they happened separately. Centered on New York City and Washington, D.C., the book chronicles a struggle of national significance through its examination of the post office, a workplace with facilities and unions serving every city and town in the United States. Black postal workers--often college-educated military veterans--fought their way into postal positions and unions and became a critical force for social change. They combined black labor protest and civic traditions to construct a civil rights unionism at the post office. They were a major factor in the 1970 nationwide postal wildcat strike, which resulted in full collective bargaining rights for the major postal unions under the newly established U.S. Postal Service in 1971. In making the fight for equality primary, African American postal workers were influential in shaping today's post office and postal unions.
Union Postal Clerk
Author: The Legal Rights of Union Stewards
Author: Robert M. SchwartzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Postal Clerk
Author: Union Management Cooperation
Author: B. M. JewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Undelivered
Author: Philip F. RubioPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469655470
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
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.