Postal strike

The night before postal workers in New York voted 1555 to 1055 to go out on strike in protest of a House committee vote to limit their wage increase that year to 54 percent on the heels of a 41 percent increase in Congresss own pay. The eight-day strike of some 150000 letter carriers in 30 cities took the nation by surprise but for many in the US.

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The 1978 Postal Wildcat.

. Article on the 1978 postal wildcat strike in which Dave Cline was a key leader based on a far more extensive paper scholar Michael Braun has written in preparation for doing a doctoral dissertation and publishing a book on this important working class battle. 1 hour agoMay 3 2022 130 PM. Many strikes hurt the public more than the employer.

The strike that stunned the country read the headline in Time magazine. March 18 marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most momentous events in postal history the postal strike of 1970. THE 1970 POSTAL strike provided a powerful lesson for the country and its government.

This strike is as much against the union leadership as against the government employer. 2 hours agoPost Office workers at more than 100 branches have walked out during a one-day strike in a dispute over pay. How the Canada Post strike may date back to me.

It began on March 18 1970 1 and led to the first national postal stoppage in US. Post Office workers are staging a one-day strike on Tuesday in a dispute over pay. But 200000 postal workers had a different view.

Members of the Communication Workers Union CWU voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in April. 13 hours agoPost Office workers across the country will go on strike today in a dispute over pay. Even as NALC president James Rademacher urged his membership to return to work the wild-cat strike spread across the nation.

The strike began just after midnight on March 18 1970 as members of the National Association of Letter Carriers NALC local 36 voted 1555 to 1055 to walk out the next morning. 16 hours agoGetting a DC. For them the Great Postal Strike of 1970 was the moment they were standing 10 feet tall instead of groveling in the dust as a Manhattan letter carrier put it.

Post Office workers to go on strike over pay Somerset Live 1525 Post Office CWU Trade Unions. 20 hours agoPost Office workers at 114 branches directly owned by the Post Office are staging a one-day strike in a dispute over pay. It took place against a background of increasing inflation and worsening industrial relations over the preceding decade both in the Post Office and in the country in general.

Maybe Time was stunned. The Peoples Liberation Army Navy PLAN dispatched an eight-ship carrier group led by the. There is a limit on how much abuse postal employees will tolerate before they are forced to resort to self-help to correct the wrongs inflicted upon them at work.

10 hours agoIn a statement from the CWU all 114 of the UKs Crown Post Offices are said to close for 24 hours on Tuesday May 3. This is a 24-hour strike so the branches affected should return to normal operating capacity tomorrow May 4 2022. UK Post Office workers to stage national strike on May 3 against government pay restraint World Socialist Web Site 1935 Post Office CWU Public Sector Strikes.

Chinese ships operate off the coast of Japan on May 2 2022. Royal Mail has won a high court injunction preventing the first national postal strike in a decade which it said could have disrupted postal voting in the general election. Moe Biller Manhattan and Bronx Postal Union president who had fled through a kitchen at a meeting last.

Postal Department forerunner of todays USPS it. By the time President Nixon appeared. The 114 Crown Post Offices will close for a 24-hour period with no cash deliveries or.

Approximately 200000 workers participated in the strike. More than 100 Crown Post Offices -. The 1970 postal strike began as a wild cat strike called by local New York leaders of the National Association of Letter Carriers NALC.

The union said the strike is over a pay freeze for 2021 and the offer of a 2 increase from April this year alongside a 250 one-off lump sum. The right to withhold ones labor in protest is as fundamental a human right as the right to. 15 hours agoNearly 2000 Post Office workers will today stage a one-day strike in a row over an exceptionally poor pay rise.

It was the first and largest walkout ever against the. Members of the Communication Workers Union CWU voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in April. Submitted by Juan Conatz on December 29 2010.

Thousands of postal workers voted Saturday March 21 1970 at a meeting in the New York City armory to defy the back-to-work order of the federal government and continue the strike begun days. Post Office workers at 114 branches are staging a one-day strike in disputes. Members of the Communication Workers Union CWU voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in April.

Circulator ride may take longer on Tuesday when bus drivers plan to strike to protest what they say are unfair wages and. 13 hours agoA one-day strike by Post Office workers in a dispute over pay started this morning. After a pay freeze in 20212022 the Post Office offered a 2 rise plus a one.

Postal workers could ballot for strike action PrintWeek 1634 Royal Mail CWU Media. The 114 Crown Post Offices will close for a. The first full national strike in the history of the British Post Office took place from Wednesday 20th January to Sunday 7th March 1971.

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