MORE THAN A LABOR DISPUTE: THE PATCO STRIKE OF 1981
On August 3, 1981, 13,000 air traffic controllers walked off the job. Under US law, the strike was illegal. President Ronald Reagan ordered the strikers as a group to return to work; when they did not, he ordered individual strikers to return, and again they refused. Two days later the president fir...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Economic & Business History Society
2005-06-01
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| Series: | Essays in Economic and Business History |
| Online Access: | https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/155 |