Labor struggle in the Post Office: from selective lobbying to collective bargaining
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Armonk; NY u.a.
Sharpe
1992
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| Beschreibung: | XVI, 271 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 1563240289 |
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| adam_text | TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
PREFACE xv
PART I: THE STRIKE THAT SHOOK THE NATION
CHAPTER 1: THUNDER BEFORE THE STORM 3
CHAPTER 2: THE STORM 13
A Matter of Priority 14
New York City 16
The Letter Carriers Rebel 18
St. Patrick s Day 19
Mania at the Statler 21
The Strike Spreads 23
Strike Effectiveness 24
Reaction in Washington 25
The Show of Force 26
The Storm Recedes 27
CHAPTER 3: THE AFTERMATH 29
Negotiations 30
The Uninvited 35
The Birth of the American Postal Workers Union 37
PART II: THE LONG, HARD HAUL
CHAPTER 4: THE STRUGGLE 43
In the Beginning 44
From the Spoils System to Civil Service 47
The Pendleton Act 47
The Postal Workers Organize 50
The Letter Carriers and the Eight Hour Day 51
The Clerks 53
The Birth of a Company Union 53
Chicago 54
Industrial Unionism in the Post Office 56
The College Boys 57
McCarthy Era Repression 59
The Progressive Feds 62
The Boston Tea Party 64
The National Postal Union 67
From Eight Unions to Four 69
CHAPTER 5: FROM REPRESSION TO COOPERATION 71
The Case for Sovereignty 72
A Decade of Gag Orders 75
The Lloyd LaFollette Act 77
The Harpoon 78
Congress Acts 79
The Burleson Years 80
The Roaring Twenties 81
The Depression 83
Gains and Losses 86
The Winds of Change 88
Executive Order 10988 90
Significance of Kennedy Order 92
PART III: THE ERA OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
CHAPTER 6: THE FIRST DECADE 97
Francis Stuart Filbey 98
The Merger Movement 100
Convention Jitters 101
The Farah Strike 103
The First Contract 105
The Outlaws 108
Another Freeze 110
Are Postal Workers Federal Employees? Ill
100,000 Impasses 112
The Mail Handler Question 112
The Second and Third Contracts 113
The Battle of the Bulk 114
AFL CIO Public Employee Department 116
The Third Contract 116
A Women s Movement 117
Constitutional Convention 118
Postal Study Commission 119
The Battle Royal 120
Emmet Andrews 121
President Carter Intervenes 124
A Civil Service Contrast 125
A New Contract—Perhaps? 126
The Outlaws Strike Again 126
Bolger s Home Picketed 128
The Postal Forum Demonstration 129
The Death of Michael McDermott 131
Contract Rejected 133
The First Rejection 134
The Denver Convention 135
Bolger Balks 137
The Healy Award 138
End of the First Decade 138
CHAPTER 7: ENTER MOE BILLER 141
The Man From the Lower East Side 142
The Postal Clerk 157
The Sub 158
The Agitator 160
The Progressive 161
The 1980 Election 161
Biller, Burrus, and Richards 162
Mass Mailings 163
Mr. Biller Goes to Washington 164
The New Regime 164
O Donnell and Schwartz 166
The Art of Public Relations 167
The Staff 168
Fiscal Crisis 169
The Cabal 169
The 1981 Negotiations 171
The Strike Threat 172
The Agreement 175
The Relevance of the PATCO Strike 177
The Actors and Their Backgrounds 177
The Nature of the Strikes 177
Strike Effectiveness 178
The Health Plan Crisis 179
Rising Costs and Poor Management 180
The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program 181
Biller vs. Devine 182
End of the Beginning 184
CHAPTER 8: THE REGIME SETTLES IN 187
The 1982 Convention 187
The New Building 188
The 1983 Elections 189
The 1984 Negotiations 192
The Battle of the Economists: Round I 193
The Award 197
The 1987 Negotiations 199
The 1980s Agenda 201
Political Action 202
Legislation 202
Retirement Benefits 202
Deficit Reduction 203
The Hatch Act 203
Privatization 205
The Case of React Postal Service 206
The Sears Roebuck Story 207
International Remailers 209
Employee Involvement 209
The Postal Worker Image 211
The Remainder of the Agenda 213
Minorities in the APWU 213
Women in the APWU 214
The Hearing Impaired 215
The IRS vs. APWU 216
Grievance Arbitration 217
The 1990 Negotiations 217
The Impasse 219
The Management Position 219
The JBC Position 220
Collective Bargaining Fails 220
The Mail Handler Deal 222
The Hearings 225
The Battle of the Economists: Round II 225
Coda 227
The Award 228
Union and Management Reaction 230
CHAPTER 9: THE FUTURE 233
State of the USPS 234
Fiscal Condition 234
Postal Service Demand 234
The Effect of Inflation 235
U.S. vs. Foreign Postal Rates 235
Pressure on the USPS 235
The APWU and the Nineties 236
Automation 237
Privatization 238
Pressure for Privatization 240
Creeping Privatization 242
The Future of Postal Service Collective Bargaining 242
Wage Criteria 244
The Struggle Continues 245
NOTES 247
INDEX OF PEOPLE 259
INDEX OF SUBJECTS 265
APPENDIX: APWU Board Members Past and Present 269
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