| Description |
viii, 472 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Getting the picture -- The main bang -- Pushing back -- Wheels up -- Confliction -- Course correction -- Flight ceiling -- Turbulence -- Down the tubes -- Pilot error -- Dead reckoning -- Trading paint -- Aluminum rain -- Debris field -- Black box. |
| Summary |
"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."--Book jacket. |
| Subject |
Air Traffic Controllers' Strike, U.S., 1981.
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Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Washington, D.C.)
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Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Washington, D.C.) |
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Reagan, Ronald.
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Reagan, Ronald. |
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United States. Federal Labor Relations Authority.
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United States. Federal Labor Relations Authority. |
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Collective bargaining -- Aeronautics -- United States.
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Collective bargaining -- Aeronautics. |
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United States. |
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Collective bargaining -- United States.
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Collective bargaining. |
| ISBN |
9780199836789 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0199836787 hardcover alkaline paper |
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