This month is the 50th anniversary of the Great Post Office Strike of
1971. It is said that it was the longest mass strike (200,000 workers,
for 44 days) since the 1926 General Strike. Although it was ultimately
unsuccessful/sold out, it led to decades of greater shop-floor
self-organisation and militancy in sorting offices..
2 accounts by ex-postal workers can be read here:
https://libcom.org/history/sorting-out-postal-strike-1971-joe-jacobs
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-02-04/here-lies-body-postman-sid-he-could-not-exist-fourteen-quid-great-post-office
2 accounts by ex-postal workers can be read here:
https://libcom.org/history/sorting-out-postal-strike-1971-joe-jacobs
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-02-04/here-lies-body-postman-sid-he-could-not-exist-fourteen-quid-great-post-office
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