Collision Course

Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America

Omschrijving

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 organized labor. As Joseph A. McCartin writes, the strike was the culmination of two decades of escalating conflict between controllers and the government that stemmed from the high-pressure nature of the job and the controllers' inability to negotiate with their employer over vital issues. PATCO's fall not only ushered in a long period of labor decline; it also served as a harbinger of the campaign against public sector unions that now roils American politics.
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Schrijver
McCartin, Joseph A. (Associate Professor of History
Titel
Collision Course
Uitgever
Oxford University Press Inc
Jaar
2013
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
504
Gewicht
599 gr
EAN
9780199325207
Afmetingen
229 x 146 x 38 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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