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Subject(s)

• Reagan, Ronald [Browse]
• Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Washington, D.C.) [Browse]
• United States. Federal Labor Relations Authority [Browse]
• Air Traffic Controllers' Strike, U.S., 1981 [Browse]
• Collective bargaining—Aeronautics—United States [Browse]
• Collective bargaining—United States [Browse]

Summary note

In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organised labour. PATCO's fall not only ushered in a long period of labour decline; it also served as a harbinger of the campaign against public sector unions that now roils American politics.

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