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Great Postal Strike of 1970

An ongoing refusal to increase USPS pay led to a boiling point when Congress proposed a 41% pay increase for themselves and a 5.4% increase for postal workers; resulting in the great postal strike of 1970, the largest walkout of federal employees in U.S. history. The Daily Dose provides microlearning history documentaries like this one delivered to your inbox daily: https://dailydosedocumentary.com We strive for accuracy and unbiased fairness, but if you spot something that doesn’t look right please submit a correction suggestion here: https://forms.gle/UtRUTvgMK3HZsyDJA Learn more: https://dailydosedocumentary.com/post... Subscribe for daily emails: https://subscribe.dailydosenow.com/ Become a Patron:   / dailydosenow   Follow us on social media: Twitter:   / thedailydose18   Facebook:   / thedailydosenow   Click to subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DailyDoseDo... #documentary #history #biography Today's Daily Dose short history film covers the Great Postal Strike of 1970, which shut down government and American commerce before the age of the Internet and e-mail. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding: Today on The Daily Dose, The Great Postal Strike of 1970. By the end of the 1960s, pay raises for postal workers were virtually nonexistent, rising by a scant $2,266 dollars after 21 years of employment, despite the physical demands of the job, which led to turnover rates of 23 percent every five years. Tensions reached a boiling point, however, after Congress proposed a 41 percent pay raise in congressional salaries, while their proposed increase for postal worker pay clocked in at a dismal 5.4 percent. In response, letter carriers in New York called for a strike on March 17th, 1970, and when union bosses from the National Association of Letter Carriers refused to strike on grounds that it was illegal for federal workers to do so, a group of New York pro-strike postal workers led by Vincent Sombrotto defied union management and walked off their jobs the following morning. As letter carriers took to picket lines in Manhattan, some 150,000 to 200,000 postal workers in 30 other cities followed suit, making the event the largest walkout of federal employees in U.S. history, at the same time freezing the delivery of some 270 million pieces of mail a day. In an age before the Internet and e-mail, documents critical to government, finance and other industries were sidelined in postal warehouses, at the same time bringing financial hardships to poor people waiting on welfare checks, while young men fearful of being drafted into the Vietnam War were left to worry if they were about to be called up for active duty or exempted from war. In response to the mounting logjam, President Richard M. Nixon declared a federal emergency, calling in the National Guard to deliver the mail in an effort to keep the American economy on track, and after eight days of sorting and delivering mail by inexperienced reservists, the wildcat strikers went back to work on Nixon’s promise of a retroactive pay hike of six percent, followed by an additional 8 percent after Nixon signed the Postal Reorganization Act on August 12th of that same year, making the Great Postal Strike of 1970 a time of letter-less stagnation for Americans everywhere. And there you have it, the Great Postal Strike of 1970, today on The Daily Dose.