On this day in 1978, thousands of New Jersey postal workers walked off the job after their work contract expired to protest mandatory overtime, forced speedup, lack of support from union leadership, and unsafe working conditions. The strike eventually grew to including nearly 5,000 postal workers nationwide, becoming the largest strike of U.S. federal employees between 1970 and 1981.
The previous contract, which set the terms of employment for U.S. postal workers, had just expired at midnight on July 20th. Postal management, the national union leadership, and the Carter Administration, had created a new collective agreement which ignored most rank and file postal workers' concerns.
In Jersey City, New Jersey, workers at the Bulk and Foreign Mail Center formed the Good Contract Committee (GCC) to organize a set of demands for the new contract that reflected the interests of the working class. These activists launched a newspaper called P.O.W. (Post Office Worker) and distributed 75,000 leaflets at local postal facilities.
The Bulk Jersey City wildcat strike lasted for four days in an attempt to nullify the tentative national contract agreement. It shut down the NJ plant as well as another bulk center in Richmond, California.
After the strike was broken, 125 workers were fired, 130 were temporarily suspended, 2,500 received letters of warning, and leaders of the walkout were blacklisted. The union did not ratify the proposed work contract, and an arbitrated contract settlement was imposed.
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Frikandel: a thin cylinder of meat. Consistency of a flaccid dick. No one knew what kinda meat was in it until a national scandal revealed it was horse meat. Horse meat has become too expensive in recent years so it's made out of chicken seperatormeat (same stuff as nuggets).
Pictured: frikandel speciaal, meaning a frikandel with mayo, ketchup, and onion. CW: meat.
It's called a frikadelle and you're making it wrong. Harumph
I don't get the point of a frikadel. It's just a gehaktbal
They're delicious is the point. And you put mustard in yours and bake them so it's not the same.
No one puts mustard on frikandellen , you're think of kroketten or bitterballen which are for a fact superior to your...
What country are you from I need to know for obscure European insults
I was talking about gehaktbal. Also there's only one place that does frikadeller
Well that's the one country we didn't have a direct military conflict with. How's your... Comparatively marginally better health care? How are you enjoying your... Social safety nets?! Yeah take that!
Actually no there was conflict , you Vikings pillaged and r*ped. But I'll let that slide because they were drippy
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