Ran into this post, saw a comment that I felt compelled to respond to, immediately got banned for "promoting illegal work activities" (illegal work activities being striking with your union).
Honestly what the fuck is the point of a union if you can't strike? The one bargaining chip a union has is the labor itself. If they don't even have that, then they're just an annoying extra step of bureaucracy. NALC needs to grow some balls.
anyways the last time the American postal service went on strike was in 1970 and they're long overdue for another.
reminder that during the 1970 strike President Nixon tried to "crush" the strike and failed miserably because it turns out running the mail is actually really fucking hard.
President Richard Nixon vowed to crush the postal workers. "We have the means to deliver the mail," he claimed. It was a hollow claim. He dispatched 23,000 United States Armed Forces personnel to New York City to process the mail, but without proper training, there was no way they could do the job. Meanwhile, courts were busy serving injunctions and imposing fines against union leaders.
Finally, the Post Office Department figured out it needed postal workers.
If the post office decides to strike, there's literally nothing the government can do about it other than negotiate. This is how it's always been. It was "illegal" in 1970 and it's "illegal" today.
