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Ping Tung

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23. We went on a wildcat strike in 1970. Nixon tried sending the army in to do our jobs.

Reply to angryxyouth (Original post)

Mon Mar 17, 2025, 02:53 PM

Mar 2025

Sorting and delivering mail are not as easy as many think.

In the end we won. Double our pay. Got straight hours instead of split hours. Got our unions recognized.

In every poll the USPS is at or near the top of popular public service.

The reality was that Nixon heard a lot about undelivered bills and worse unpaid bills from the capitalists.

Unfortunately for the bosses bills were sent by snail=mail not "on line".

Fortunately for workers a lot of us were students trying to pay for college by working the swing shift (3pm -12pm) so we go to classes.

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