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Friday, August 5, 2011

REAGAN FIRES AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS, THIRTY YEARS AGO


REAGAN 
FIRES 
STRIKING 
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS 
August 5, 1981 


AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS 
LEESBURG, VIRGINIA 

Published in the February 16, 1981, 
issue of BUSINESS WEEK (p. 83) 

How many times have I read that Ronald Reagan's firing of the air traffic controllers -- thirty years ago now -- was a crucial step in the diminution of the American labor movement? A recent analysis is to be found here

The Business Week article for which this photograph was an illustration was entitled "The race to head off an airline shutdown." 

More on air traffic control 

Then and now 

here 


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