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Just eight hours before a threatened nationwide postal strike was to begin last week, neither side showed any sign of budging. Postmaster General William F. Bolger adamantly refused to go back to the bargaining table. Three postal unions were just as insistent on reopening negotiations after their members had voted to reject a contract calling for a 19.5% pay increase over three years...
...postal workers, who now earn an average of $7.58 per hour, were deeply dissatisfied. There were brief wildcat walkouts in Jersey City and outside
...Francisco. The Postal Service responded by firing 100 workers. The militants refused to back down. Two weeks ago, at the Denver convention of the American Postal Workers Union, rebel delegates burst forth in a rancorous demonstration against their own leaders. The dissidents had powerful support: AFL-CIO President George Meany denounced the contract as "disappointing...
Last week it was time to count the votes. The three main unions?the A.P.W.U., the National Association of Letter Carriers, and the Mail Handlers division of the Laborers' International Union, which together represent 497,000 of the 554,000 postal employees?rejected the contract by a close but decisive margin of 5 to 4. That same vote authorized two of the union leaders to call a strike within five days?illegal though it would be?unless the Postal Service agreed to new negotiations. Postmaster General William F. Bolger rejected the bid. The Postal Service then went to court...
Only once before has there been a national postal strike. During a crippling two-week walkout in 1970, President Nixon called in federal troops, and discovered that soldiers could protect the mail but not deliver very much of it. Avoiding a similar calamity this week became the No. 1 item on the Government agenda...