U.S. Postal Workers Strike

Date: March 18, 1970 • Location: Shaw, United States

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1970.

U.S. postal workers began an eight-day strike after Congress raised their wages by only 4 percent despite increasing its own pay by 41 percent.

The U.S. postal strike of 1970 was an eight-day strike by federal postal workers in March 1970. The strike began in New York City and spread to some other cities in the following two weeks. This strike against the federal government, regarded as illegal, was the largest wildcat strike in U.S. history.