[news] PATCO's Ghost Still Haunts U.S. House of Labour

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

On August 3, 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) launched a nation-wide walk-out after years of conflict with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). President Ronald Reagan...gave the strikers 48 hours to return to work. When 11,345 ignored his ultimatum, he fired them all...PATCO's destruction ushered in a decade of lost strikes and lock-outs, triggered by management demands for pay and benefit give-backs that continue to this day in a wide range of industries.

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