Labor History Today (3/15/20): The Great Postal Strike, Watergate and “Casey Jones, the Union Scab” by Union City Radio published on 2020-03-15T21:08:44Z Longtime labor lawyer Jules Bernstein on the 1970 postal strike, AFL-CIO president George Meany on the Watergate scandal, and Pete Seeger on “Casey Jones, the Union Scab.” Genre News & Politics Comment by rblacklow The Nixon administration thought that anyone could sort/deliver mail. How difficult could that be? So he called out the Nat Guard to fulfill its historical role of strike breaking. Well, sorting mail ain't so easy. The resulting fiasco so screwed up the mail that Nixon had to beg for peace. 2020-03-23T21:33:12Z
