Eight-day strike by workers in the U.S. Post Office Department
U.S. postal strike of 1970
Striking postal workers highlight the disparity in wages between themselves and the politicians
Date
March 18–25, 1970 (approximately)
Location
began in New York City, spread across the United States
Caused by
Low wages and poor working conditions
Resulted in
Postal Reorganization Act
Parties
Postal workers
Labor unions
United States federal government
Lead figures
New York City letter carriers
NALC president James Rademacher, NALC rank and file strike leader Vincent Sombrotto
US president Richard Nixon, Postmaster General Winton M. Blount
Number
approximately 200,000
few
few
The U.S. postal strike of 1970 was an eight-day strike by federal postal workers in March 1970. The strike began in New York City and spread to some other cities in the following two weeks. This strike against the federal government, regarded as illegal, was the largest wildcat strike in U.S. history.[1]
President Richard Nixon called out the United States armed forces and the National Guard in an attempt to distribute the mail and break the strike.
The strike influenced the contents of the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, which dissolved the United States Post Office Department, replaced it with the more corporate United States Postal Service, and guaranteed collective bargaining rights for postal workers (though not the right to strike).
^Rubio, Philip F. (2010). There's Always Work at the Post Office: African-American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807859865.
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