REBELLION IN THE RANKS able leglslation, de!eat anti-union bilis. expedite wage increases, etc.). In the main, the membership o! the Teachers Union endorse the o!!iclal business unions. Albert Shanker, Presldent ot both the New York and or the National Federation or Teachers Is also a vice-presldent ot the AFL-CIO and a very clase associate or lts President, the reactionary George Meany. Mass strlke of post offlce workers BUT THE MOST dramatic and signiflcant manifestatlon or the growlng class consciousness of Government employees was the !irst nation wlde strlke in the history or the Federal Government by the post oftlce workers (March 1970), not only in vlolation or the Federal anti-strike law which prohlbits a strlke agalnst the State (an o!tense punishable by 1,5 years in Ja11 and s 1,000 fine !or each member), but also In detlance or their unlon leaders. It was a spontaneous, unauthorlzed w1ld cat strlke that spread rapldly rrom New York City to more than 200 clties· across the nation, paralyzing the postal system and lnvolving 200,000 strlkers. Only the most extreme pressure or the government (sending troops to sort the ma11) and o! thelr own unlons prevented the other maln government employees ·unlons !rom joinlng the strike and completely paralyzing ali the operatlons o! the State. The incorporation ot Government, public service, educational -the socalled «new worklng class•-, lnto the malnstream or the .American Labor movement is a tremendously signl!icant development. Rlassunto ll molttpllcarsi degli sctoperi selvaggi dá aglt Stati Untti un clima sociale .iiuovo, a meno che non lo st rlcolleghl ad una certa t.radiztone sináacalista rtvoluzlonalia di azione dlretta. 1 giovani lavoratort, soprattutto, accordano altrettanta lmportanza al rtspetto della loro dignltá d'uomlnt, at problemt delle re!azloni con t capl ed 1 capettt della gerarchla azlenda!e, all'organlzzazlone del !avoro, che alle questtoni salarial!. Tutti aspetti che t contratti pertodlcamente 11egoziatt dalle granát organtzzazioni stndaca!l trascurano o sotto107
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