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:: Friday, June 18, 2004 ::
As the Nation Paid Its Respect to Reagan, Media Downplay His Anti-Labor Record LaborTalk By Harry Kelber
While Ronald Reagan was eulogized as a charismatic, upbeat and beloved personality during the five-day funeral program of homage in his honor, hardly any mention was made that he was the first U.S. president to break a strike by a labor organization. There were no comments whatever about Reagan from the AFL-CIO or its major affiliates.
In 1981, President Reagan fired 10,000 federal air-traffic controllers who had gone on strike for higher wages and better working conditions. Then he refused to allow any of the strikers to return to their jobs. It destroyed their union, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) and had a demoralizing effect on the entire labor movement for years.------------------------------------------- posted 6:36 AM :: reference link ::
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